Anyone who follows the game of baseball closely knows that pitchers and their arms have to be appropriately managed. While competitive spirit can take over, you usually don’t want your guys overexerting themselves to the point of dangerous fatigue and exhaustion.
Evidently, Stanford baseball lost sight of this with Quinn Mathews on Sunday evening. In a pivotal Game 2 of the Cardinal’s Super Regional series with Texas, Mathews threw an astonishing 156 pitches in nine innings to help his team to an 8-3 win. Perhaps more impressively, he somehow only notched three walks while striking out 16 hitters. Truly, it was a dynamic workhorse performance all around.
