I love baseball

Regardless of how closely you follow sports, here are two stories you should know about.

Yesterday afternoon in a college baseball game that would send the winner to the Super Regional (on the road to the College World Series) the Florida State Seminoles defeated the Ohio State Buckeyes by a score of 37-6. That means that Florida State averaged more than 4 runs per inning. Thirty-two of FSU's runs came in the first five innings. I bet Ohio State was wishing College Baseball had a mercy rule of some kind.

On Saturday night in another postseason college baseball game Texas defeated Boston College 3-2 in 25 innings. A left-handed Texas relief pitcher, Austin Wood, entered the game in the bottom of the 7th inning with one out and one runner on base. Wood proceeded to pitch 12 and a third innings of no-hit baseball. In total he pitched 13 innings. This guy averaged between 10 and 14 pitches per outing for the whole season, and on Saturday night he threw 169 of them, giving up just 4 walks and two hits. For the most detailed and entertaining story on the game check out the Stat of the Week/Hero of the Week section of Peter King's football column Monday Morning Quarterback.