West Virginia coach Randy Mazey, his eyes still reddened from a tearful extended meeting with his team, said he considered intentionally walking TCU's Luken Baker with the bases empty and one out in the 10th inning of Sunday's Big 12 Tournament title game.
That's the kind of week the big freshman from Spring, Texas, was having, pounding balls and walls at Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark. And that's the kind of fear Baker strikes at 6-foot-4, 265 pounds; hands so massive he doesn't even bother with batting gloves.
Yet Mazey dismissed such crazy thought, with that kind of rare respect reserved for the likes of Barry Bonds, or lately, Bryce Harper — professionals.