LAFAYETTE — There was a moment this year when Louisiana-Lafayette sophomore pitcher Evan Guillory put his slider grip on the baseball before he even looked in at the sign from his battery mate Nick Thurman.
Guillory looked in for the sign, but he didn’t really have to. He offered a quick nod of the head and fired the pitch in to Thurman’s mitt.
That particular moment is more remarkable for its predictability than the fact that it happened. The far more infrequent occurrences are the times Guillory and his fellow pitchers shake off Thurman’s signs.