Two days before the visit to Oxford, McKay had gone 3-for-3 with a walk-off single and worked two scoreless innings of relief in the series finale against Miami.īy that point, McKay (who didn't hit during his first college weekend) was already entrenched as Louisville's cleanup man, and when closer Zack Burdi was sidelined for a few weeks with an injury, McKay filled in admirably at the back of the bullpen. MEDAL OF HONOR BREAKTHROUGH PATCH 2.30 SERIES Then, in the Tuesday game against Ole Miss, he struck out two in a scoreless ninth to earn his fourth save.

'I told Stephen before the game that Tuesday, 'This is the closest kid I've had to you,'' McDonnell recalls. 'He had to close the game that night, he was like 92-94 with a snap dragon curveball. I never threw that hard and I didn't have that breaking ball.' After the game, Stephen walks up to me and puts his arm around me and says, 'Hey Coach, man, this dude's way better than me. 'But you know what I mean - this is our Stephen Head. When I always talk about greatness, I always talk about a career. Nothing wrong with doing it for one year, that's awesome, but Stephen Head did it for a career. Just like McKay, he was the national freshman of the year and was on Team USA. What he did for three years, he changed the program. By the time he rolled through there, that program was at a different level. McKay's career isn't quite over yet - he still has two very important months left to add to his legacy - but he's already certain to go down as one of the greatest two-way players of his era, or any era. He was the consensus national Freshman of the Year in 2015, when he settled into the Saturday starter role once Burdi returned and finished 9-3, 1.77 off the mound while hitting. He stepped up into the Friday starter role as a sophomore, going 12-4, 2.30 with 128 strikeouts in 109.2 innings, and his offensive production climbed - he hit. MEDAL OF HONOR BREAKTHROUGH PATCH 2.30 SERIESģ33 and improved his slugging percentage by 82 points to.

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