West Virginia University

(Photo Credit: WVU Athletics) The phrase ‘bittersweet’ is often overused in sports media. There is not a more apropos phrase, however, to describe 2019 for Mount Sinai-native Sam Kessler. Let’s start with the bad. With his team hosting the NCAA Regional against Texas A & M, he was on the mound and yielded a walk-off grand slam with two outs in the 9th inning on a full count to turn a 10-7 lead by West Virginia into an 11-10 victory for Texas A & M. The loss eliminated the Mountaineers and with social media’s ubiquity, the clip has been played 2.5 million times on Twitter. Kessler noted that he thinks about it every day. What made matters worse, he stated was that his West Virginia squad was hosting the regional and that they led 9-1 in the fifth inning befor...