Kirn appears for West Virginia when his team needed

West Virginia’s Griffin Kirn provided his group whatever he had. His ability to keep WVU in the game ended up paying off as a return win was triggered by Kirn’s strong start.

It looked as though it may be a long afternoon for Kirn as it took 10 pitches to survive the very first batter of the game, ending in a walk, and after that on his 11th pitch, he struck a batter.

Kirn left a bases-loaded jam before he would make fast work of the Wildcats in the second and third innings.

“It’s simply, I mean, get a no. It doesn’t really matter who’s on base. It does not matter what occurs. If you get a no at the end of the day, you’re probably going to remain in the game. I kept telling [Steve Sabins] and [Chris Reilly] and [Justin] Oney, just, like, trust me. They do trust me, and it’s just, like, getting zeros at the end of the day,” Kirn said.

Kirn was put in a hard area before the game, as the game was postponed by 2 hours and 41 minutes from its initial 12:00 p.m. start time.

“I was pretty focused, all set to go, like 30, 35 minutes before the game, and they told me they were going to fulfill at 1:30, and I resembled, all right, I need to kind of like unlock it, I guess, in a sense. Like just type of have fun with the guys and, you understand, mess around, and after that whenever they satisfied at 1.30, I kind of returned in the groove, and it was just like, all right, it’s go time now,” Kirn stated.

Kirn finished the game throwing 118 pitches, the fourth time in his last five starts that he’s thrown a minimum of 113 pitches.

“Simply actually, actually pleased with the effort from the group and the staff. Griffin Kirn has actually been an outright workhorse for the Mountaineers all season. He improved from pitch 100 to 117,” head coach Steve Sabins stated.

West Virginia is now 11-4 in games Kirn started this year, with this being the biggest triumph of the 11 wins.