Coastal Carolina lefty Austin Kitchen (Aaron Fitt)

Fitt Bits: Seattle Notebook, Day 2

INSIDE:
• Austin Kitchen brings stability to Coastal Carolina weekend rotation
• Tyler Malone leads Beaver bat breakout
• Surging San Diego wins a weird one over snake-bitten Minnesota

SEATTLE — Coastal Carolina had a very good 2018 season, winning 43 games and hosting a regional — but it’s no mystery that its Achilles’ heel a year ago was inconsistent strike-throwing. Coastal ranked 215th in the nation with 4.57 walks allowed per nine innings last spring, and the Chants have placed heavy emphasis on improving in that department in 2019. They’ve made some progress, but they still entered the Seattle[…]