He brushed the the dirt with his cleat in the left-side of the batters box. Two on and two out in the bottom of the ninth with a chance to win the contest and the series, superstar slugger Spencer Torkelson gripped his bat with the weight on his shoulders.
“There’s nobody on the planet I’d rather have in that batters box in that situation,” head coach Tracy Smith said.
Freshly entered righty Mitchell Verburg’s first two pitches were outside the zone. With left-handed swinger Hunter Bishop on deck, Verburg had to challenge Torkelson.
“You live for that moment, you want to be in that situation and win it,” Torkelson said.