Gabriel Stigers

But when he's off, he tends to get hit in bunches.

So if that starts to happen, Toby Scheidt is something of a fireman.

He comes in a lot.

He inherits a lot of runners.

and so I would not be surprised at all if it went Ritter, Scheidt, Ray, but if Ritter looks good, he might just ride out those back three innings of the game, especially if it's not a save situation.

If the team is up a lot, they'll just let it ride, like I said.

You also have a guy like Manning West back there who is super underrated, in my opinion.

He has a great cutter from a big right-handed kind of three-quarter arm slot that actually really favors well against left-hand hitting.

It just kind of

fours in on the hand.

So if there's a tough lefty or a string of them coming up, I wouldn't be shocked to see Manning West out there at all either.

Well, first of all, with Dykoff, for a lot of the year, he was batting eight.

He was a really well-rounded bat, but the numbers were good, not great.

And then, like you said, down the stretch that last month, he was incredible enough to earn him all Big 12 second-team honors.

And that came from he quite literally moved his front foot in and stood really tall in the batter's box, added a big leg kick, and that just helped his timing.

All it was was timing.

And so now that he's on time with every pitch, you've seen the results.

But...

One through nine, I think these guys, a lot of them, I know these guys, at least a lot of them, haven't been in this situation before.

You know, Ballinger was around, Osori was around last year for the regional, but all the other guys are D2 or Juco products.