Dyllan Redmon isn't necessarily looking to get hit by pitches when he steps into the batter's box. But he's not running scared if the ball happens to come inside, either.

"I was always taught, especially when I came here, to toe the line and don't get out of the way," Redmon said. "Wear 'em for the team. Ever since then I've always been right up on the plate ... so when pitchers come inside and it's close, I'm not moving."

Redmon's fearlessness at the plate has him within shouting distance of the national record book. The Columbus, Indiana native has been hit by 80 pitches in his Franklin College career, far and away the most by any player in the Lance Marshall era (2024 grad Colby Reed is a distant second with 54). At his current 2026 pace — he's been plunked 15 times in 21 games — Redmon would finish the regular season with approximately 92 HBPs. Depending on how deep the Grizzlies can go in the postseason, who knows?

The national Division III record for a career is 97, set by Nick Crawford of Millsaps College in 2002. In order to surpass that mark, Redmon would have to at least equal the single-season D3 record of 33 (shared by two different players).

"I knew I had a lot, but I didn't really look into the record or anything; I had no idea," Redmon said. "I figured I probably had the school record, because (80) is kind of a lot, but now that Marshall told me ... it's pretty cool.

"I might toe the line a little more now."

Marshall has long been impressed by the grit he sees from Redmon, who sports a .463 on-base percentage and is tied for second on the team with 19 runs batted in.

"Dyllan has been an absolute horse at the plate for us," the coach said. "He does stand pretty close to the plate, so those are conditions conducive to him being hit by pitches. But a lot of it's so he can cover the outside part of the plate."

"Anytime we need a runner on, he's the guy you want at the plate — because he's about to get on somehow."

As adept as Redmon is with the bat in his hand — he's a career .276 hitter with 124 runs scored and 92 batted in during his time as a Grizzly — it's clear that the senior infielder view isn't afraid to use his whole body as a weapon. He's been hit by pitches in nearly every body part, with the shots to the calf or elbow causing far more of a sting than those to the back or the meatier parts of his arm.

Still, it's a cost he's willing to pay in order to win.

"Some of them hurt depending on where you get hit," Redmon said, "but I look at it more as it's for the team, so I've got to do what I've got to do sometimes."

The expression for that in the Franklin dugout is "wearing it" — taking an inside pitch to get your team a baserunner. The Grizzlies were hit by 92 pitches in all last season, 24 of those finding Redmon. He has taken 15 of the team's 41 HBPs this season.

As Marshall notes, it's not a surprise that Redmon gravitated toward football in high school — he doesn't shy away from contact. The pain, he reasons, is temporary.

"It's not necessarily a skill," Redmon said. "It's more just like, I know I'm not getting out of the way, I'm not scared of it. It's going to hurt for a second, and then it's going to go away. ...

"I'm a guy that needs to get on base, let these other guys hit me in; that's been my job since freshman year. So I just get on the line and wear it for the team."

He's been wearing it historically well.