Hoping for a great game between Vandy and NC State.
Hoping for a great game between Vandy and NC State.
Crazy good pitching!
Well well well, NC State just took down Vandy 1-0
NCS to win the whole thing thanks to Ruston!
That is championship baseball.
Those “Road to Omaha runs through Ruston” graphics weren’t kidding.
Losing sucks… but I wouldn’t be too mad if the National Champion came from our regional.
And, I will add it was Moo State's pitching that beat Texas. The UT pitcher had a great game too, did a very good job of holding down MSU's potent offense, but the two MSU pitchers out-pitched him.
NC State beat Vandy at its own game...pitching. Beginning to think the 2021 baseball Pack is pulling off a 1983 basketball Pack deal!
That’s exactly right. In fact there’s something of a trend going on that pretty much all the umps have been taking the pitchers out of the last inning at bat equation. They are deciding to let the defensive team win the game in the field rather than calling edge strikes. If you watch closely you’ll see it in every game and I’m not talking only about Omaha, it’s taken place everywhere including in Ruston some weeks ago. That’s why every last a bat had either lead off walks or hits, the umps were forcing pitchers to throw more to the center of the plate which is of course going to lead to pitches being hit.
Vanderbilt's Jack Leiter pitched a 15-strikeout gem, but his lone run was a fifth inning home run by Terrell Tatum that gave NC State a 1-0 win, advancing the Wolfpack to 2-0 in the 2021 College World Series. Watch the full game highlights here. Good video is you've got 4 minutes to watch.
NC State's Sam Highfill was the winning pitcher. Leiter was the loser.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdVnJAOx45A
Highfill pitched a great game as well. Sad that we were a couple of arms shy of being right there.