FWST: TCU counts on phenom Baker at plate for playoff push

Luken Baker can describe his emotion when he felt pain in his arm after a pitch in a start last month at Oklahoma State.

“I was terrified,” he said. “I’d never felt anything like that before.”

The TCU freshman immediately signaled the dugout, came out of the April 22 game and hasn’t thrown a pitch since.

The diagnosis was a muscle strain. Not good. But not the worst.

“Luckily, the ligament wasn’t torn. It was just a few strained muscles,” he said. “That was actually huge news that I wouldn’t have to get any surgery. It wasn’t on a breaking ball or anything. It was on a fastball. It wasn’t from throwing wrong or overuse. Just a freak thing that happened on one pitch.” …
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