Junior pitcher Stevie Emanuels was the only Washington baseball player to hear his name called in the shortened 2020 MLB Draft when he was selected in the fifth round with the 157th pick by the Oakland A’s on June 11. 

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In an alternate universe, the UW baseball team was in Palo Alto this past Memorial Day weekend, squaring off against Stanford for its final series of the 2020 regular season. 

Unfortunately, the actual universe had a different agenda.

On Tuesday, Washington’s junior starting pitcher Stevie Emanuels was named a third-team All-American by The Collegiate Baseball for the 2020 season. 

In a press release sent May 26, the Pac-12 announced it will allow voluntary, in-person athletic workouts to begin June 15 for all sports. 

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Dylan Lamb spent a good deal of his childhood losing. 

With two older brothers it’s hard to blame him, especially when one of them is a future MLB all-star who doesn’t see the merit in taking it easy on his eight-year younger sibling.

“When I would play against my brothers when I was younger, when they would beat down on me because they’re so much bigger,” Lamb said. “It kind of made things better for me because I knew how to come back from failure.”

Somewhere in the Emanuels’ family home, an old photograph features three-year-old Stevie Emanuels on the beach with his father, symbolically toting a plastic wiffleball bat, the first stitching along a lengthy seam of baseball memories.

When Washington’s first-year pitching coach and recruiting coordinator Elliott Cribby talks to his players, he doesn’t simply offer tips on how to tweak a slider. He doesn’t just dare them to run farther during quarantine or question them about their daily long-toss sessions. His mentorship …