Michigan players rush out to mob Ako Thomas after his walk-off hit (Aaron Fitt)

Fitt: Michigan Wins Bullpen Battle

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — The series of the year in the Big Ten between rivals Michigan State and Michigan started off with a juicy pitching matchup between a pair of talented lefthanders. On a gray 50-degree evening in Ann Arbor, an energetic crowd of about 2,000 and a bushel of scouts packed in behind the plate to watch MSU’s Cam Vieaux take on Michigan’s Brett Adcock.

But it wound up being a battle of the bullpens — and as Michael Baumann wrote in his extensive preview of this series earlier this week, the Spartans have one of[…]