The collegiate baseball season has begun this afternoon, and the first of the day’s televised games — at least among those available by way of streaming video from CBS’s College Sports Live — is Villanova at North Carolina State.

What follows is a GIF from that game’s first inning of NC State starter Cory Wilder throwing a fastball at 93 mph — a pitch notable less for its quality (although that oughtn’t be ignored, as well), but more because of what it represents for our pending emergence from that waking nightmare called winter.

And because the author has made it, here’s also footage of Wilder’s curveball, thrown moments later: