After Central Michigan right fielder Daniel Robinson dropped John Matthews' fly ball at the warning track in the bottom of the 10th inning Sunday afternoon, the Kent State dugout spilled onto the field and mobbed the freshman shortstop beyond the first base line, showering him with congratulations and water from the team’s water bottles.
For Matthews, it was the direct result of hitting practice paying off. He said he recently began to work on his curveball hitting recently. When he got one up in the zone that he liked during his fourth at-bat, Matthews, who is also a right-handed pitcher, drove it the opposite way.