If you still don’t think so, ask Ivan Melendez one frame later.
Friday’s game played much differently, as the burnt orange controlled the game for most of the night behind Madden’s command and productive hitting.
The sophomore pitched a shutout over the next six innings with eight strikeouts, three walks and only one hit.
“I knew he was going to come back with it just because I laid off the slider early in the count and I was seeing it well,” Melendez said.
After a rain delay pushed Texas’ start time vs Virginia into the late hours of Thursday Night, the Longhorns still came through with the 6-2 win to stay alive in Omaha.