Throwback Thursday: Time for Big Ben

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With a 13-2 record and a 2.35 ERA, McDonald leads the 13th-ranked
Tigers as they head into the preliminary rounds of the College World
Series this week. The Major League Scouting Bureau gave him its
highest rating ever for a pitcher,

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Particularly
impressive was a 6-0 win over power-hitting Oklahoma State on Feb.
24. He fanned 14 and gave up no walks and only four hits. His
curveball bit, his changeup baffled, and his first and last fastballs
reached 98 mph on the JUGS gun. ''The best-pitched college game I've
ever seen,'' Kansas City Royals scout Glenn Balsamo called it.

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