Seattle – You don’t immediately think “motivational speaker” when you see Tarik Skubal. He’s typically very intense and serious, but mostly he’s quiet. He prefers to speak with deeds and not words.
Which is why it was intriguing to think of him Tuesday, back on his old college baseball field, giving a pep talk to the Seattle University baseball team as they prepare for a critical series this weekend.
“You have to ask those guys, but I thought I killed it,” Skubal said, smiling. “But who knows?"
Skubal, who pitched and studied at Seattle U from 2015-2018, will pitch in front of 30 or so former teammates, coaches and friends tomorrow in the series finale, on the field he used to scrimmage on during college.