Bedlam Baseball: Easy Does It
By John Helsley
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Cowboys coach Frank Anderson watched the stadium radar reading reach triple digits Tuesday night and marveled at Oklahoma’s Damien Magnifico.
“And that deal is about three miles an hour slow,” Anderson said of the Reynolds Stadium device. “That kid’s got a great arm. I mean, that’s a big-time, major league arm right there. You might not ever see a kid hit three digits on that thing again.
“The only time I’ve seen it here before was off our pitching machine.”
Anderson, a long-time pitching coach at Texas Tech and Texasbefore taking the head coaching job at OSU, said he’s never had a pitcher who could dial up 100 mph.
“AtTexas, I had Beau Hale,”Andersonsaid. “He threw 98 and 99 a bunch and was the 14th pick in the first round.
“He didn’t throw any like those.”
Meanwhile,Anderson’s pitcher, Kyle Ottoson marveled just the same on the opposite end of the spectrum. A finesse pitcher, Ottoson didn’t have a single pitch reach 90 and many of his offerings revealed 70s readings, even a few in the 60s.
“He didn’t go out there and throw,” said Cowboys catcher Jared Womack, “he had an idea on the mound. He went out there and located all his pitches. He made big pitches when we needed them.”
And he baffled the Sooners, much to their disgust, as the Cowboys won 6-1 in the non-conference game of the Bedlam series.
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