The Wildcats don't care what the stuffy baseball traditionalists think, they're having fun and they're winning.
Elizabeth Merrill is a senior writer for ESPN. She previously wrote for The Kansas City Star and The Omaha World-Herald.
The Wildcats rattled off a six-game winning streak after that team meeting, won a school-record 46 games and landed in the program's first Men's College World Series.In the middle of their opening MCWS game, a tie game with No. 10 North Carolina State, pitcher Mason Moore was in the dugout wearing a fireman's hat and playing with a hand puppet. The game went into extra innings.
Mingione obviously doesn't care what the stuffy baseball traditionalists think, either. He's as sentimental as he is analytical, stopping everything to individually congratulate each of his players after their super regional win over Oregon State earlier this month and dropping to a knee in the third-base coaching box to pray after Mitchell Daly's winning home run cleared the left-field fence Saturday.
Mingione gets weird, too. He draws ooohs and ouches from the dugout for standing still when line drives whizz his way at third. There's a post on X, formerly Twitter, of the coach recently taking a scorcher to the leg, with Mingione barely flinching."They stand in the box when the pitcher throws the ball at them, and they don't move," he said."So I won't move. I'm in the fight with them.
His brothers, who also played college baseball, helped him realize that he had an identity outside of baseball.Steven Branscombe-USA TODAY Sports
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