FWST: Mitchell Traver’s patience rewards him with TCU’s big start
BY GIL LEBRETONÂ glebreton@star-telegram.com
OMAHA, NEB. – If you believe in signs, if you trust that fate steers us down a certain path, you will likely agree that it is perfectly appropriate for right-hander Mitchell Traver to pitch Friday night for the TCU Horned Frogs.
The opponent is yet to be determined. But for TCU, it has already been deemed as the most important baseball game in school history.
And big games call for big pitchers — pitchers whose experience has taught them how to embrace the moment. Pitchers who’ve been to Tommy John hell and back. Pitchers who have waited patiently for their night.
Traver has experienced one of those sublime nights so far. As a redshirt sophomore from Sugar Land last season, Traver came out of the bullpen and pitched the final four scoreless innings of the Frogs’ dramatic Super Regional-clinching victory over Texas A&M.
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