In his third outing of the season, Byrd put together a strong performance as he was credited with a 9-2 win at Union, improving to 2-0 on the year. The senior southpaw worked eight scoreless innings with seven strikeouts and zero walks. Byrd, who was perfect through the opening four frames, left Union hitters with a .038 batting average, conceding just one hit in 26 batters faced.