Actually, let The State's Chapel Fowler tell you about our intern Toby Corriston.
My man is quite the athlete, so much that he was an emergency pitcher this past summer for the Harrisonburg Turks.
The conversation happened four months ago in a random visitors’ dugout in Virginia, but Clemson student Toby Corriston remembers it like yesterday. Corriston, at this point, was wrapping up his internship as the social media coordinator and sports information director for the Harrisonburg Turks, a summer collegiate baseball team that plays dozens of games across Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley region every June and July. And on this night, “we were getting killed,” Corriston said, something like 14-2. As the Staunton Braves kept piling up runs and extending the game, Corriston and the Turks’ pitching coach, Matt Majewski, started commiserating in the dugout.
Harrisonburg was already down a few pitchers from its opening day roster, when it had 13 available. Now they were rapidly rotating through guys against Staunton, and some of them were approaching pitch counts that came with league-mandated rest periods. On top of that, the Turks were about to play back-to-back doubleheaders the next two days, a four games in 48 hours crunch brought on by various rain-outs. Long story short: Harrisonburg needed more pitchers. Badly. “I don’t know who we’re going to throw,” Majewski said. “I can pitch for you guys,” Corriston said. Majewski paused. “Are you joking?” he said.
Corriston wasn't joking.
Here's a link to the full article. What an awesome read!
My man is quite the athlete, so much that he was an emergency pitcher this past summer for the Harrisonburg Turks.
The conversation happened four months ago in a random visitors’ dugout in Virginia, but Clemson student Toby Corriston remembers it like yesterday. Corriston, at this point, was wrapping up his internship as the social media coordinator and sports information director for the Harrisonburg Turks, a summer collegiate baseball team that plays dozens of games across Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley region every June and July. And on this night, “we were getting killed,” Corriston said, something like 14-2. As the Staunton Braves kept piling up runs and extending the game, Corriston and the Turks’ pitching coach, Matt Majewski, started commiserating in the dugout.
Harrisonburg was already down a few pitchers from its opening day roster, when it had 13 available. Now they were rapidly rotating through guys against Staunton, and some of them were approaching pitch counts that came with league-mandated rest periods. On top of that, the Turks were about to play back-to-back doubleheaders the next two days, a four games in 48 hours crunch brought on by various rain-outs. Long story short: Harrisonburg needed more pitchers. Badly. “I don’t know who we’re going to throw,” Majewski said. “I can pitch for you guys,” Corriston said. Majewski paused. “Are you joking?” he said.
Corriston wasn't joking.
Here's a link to the full article. What an awesome read!
