STANFORD, Calif. — The dugout chatter for intrasquad games at the Sunken Diamond can be merciless.
The slings and arrows are nonstop when Stanford baseball players are pitted against one another. The guys wearing red jerseys shout streams of insults at players on the black team and vice versa. “Whoa, hey, Luke’s got a new stance,” a player wearing a black jersey yells as freshman catcher Luke Lavin stands upright in the batter’s box, perhaps imitating the Chicago Cubs’ Cody Bellinger.
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Lavin pops up the next pitch. “Same swing, though!”
But the tone changes when No. 3 for the black team, a husky teenager and early enrollee who won’t begin his freshman
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