Pitching Shines With Michigan State-Ohio State

COLUMBUS, Ohio — The tensest baseball games are close, low-scoring affairs, in which every pitch counts, because any baserunner could be the difference. But you have to have baserunners to set up the tension.

That’s the reason that, through the bottom of the sixth inning, Michigan State’s 3-2 win over Ohio State felt almost drowsy, shapeless, as if the only two people who were awake in the whole ballpark were the two starting pitchers: Michigan State’s burly[…]