Stanford senior Quinn Mathews wasn’t worried about what armchair pitching coaches might think after his 156-pitch outing that led the Cardinals to the College World Series.
It was all in the pursuit of greatness.
It was the second-most pitches thrown by a Division I player this year. No MLB pitcher has thrown that many pitches in a game since 1997.Mathews called it a moment he’ll always remember. Stanford coach Davis Esquer defended the decision and said he’d never put Mathews in harm’s way. The Cardinals toppled the Longhorns in three games and are now preparing for a matchup against No. 1 Wake Forest in the third game of the College World Series on Saturday at 11 a.m. PT.
As a junior in 2022, the Orange County native had put together a special season, going 9-2 with nine saves and a 3.09 ERA. But while waiting for his name to be called in the draft, Mathews had a revelation. He decided he needed to take his blinders off and start looking at life outside of baseball. He returned to Stanford for his senior year, continued taking classes towards earning his degree in Science, Technology and Society , and told his older sister, Remy, that he was going to be a more well-rounded person.
“It’s easy to become narrow-minded,” he said. “I call it the racehorse tunnel vision, where you can’t see outside of the game and week after week the stuff accelerates, speeds up and life seems to revolve around baseball. And unfortunately it doesn’t. You have to be a good human being first and foremost.”
A year later and he still throws a fastball in the low-90s, still lives off his changeup, still has an ERA in the 3s and yet his life has changed drastically.
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