Recently in these electronic pages, the author — an amateur in all the saddest ways — utilized the few skills he possesses to compose a paean in praise of LSU freshman right-hander Alex Lange’s curveball. Lange’s name had appeared among those players who’d produced the (maybe) best predictive pitching stats in the Southeastern Conference. That curveball, it seemed, was responsible for no little part of his success.

Over this past weekend, Lange producing perhaps his best start of the season, striking out 13 of the 30 batters he faced against the University of Kentucky (box). A brief inspection of that game’s video highlights reveals that Lange once again utilize his curveball to good effect.

Here, for example, is Lange utilizing his curveball to the effect of striking out an anonymous Kentucky batter:

And Lange doing the same thing in slow motion:

Here, in another case, is Lange (first) striking out an anonymous Kentucky batter by way of the curveball and (then) stomping off the mound like someone who’s just won a war — a war against human frailty:

And, once again, the same footage in slow motion: