2024 college baseball/softball thread

Honestly there should be. I heard on the NC State game that there has only been one comeback of 10-plus in 30 years in the tournament? I could have heard that wrong. But no one needs to suffer through a 24-4 game, much less the players and those involved. Wash it off and get ready for the next one.

I went to a Junior College World Series game last week and there was a run rule game, which I wasn't expecting, but it was sort of refreshing once it happened. My kid would have wanted to stay for the whole thing and I don't know that I needed to be out there for a 15-run, four-hour game! I guess this was the first or one of the first years that tournament started doing it.

 

I actually covered one such game. Big South championship game between Liberty and UNC Asheville, down at Coastal Carolina in 2006. LU went up 11-0 in the fourth inning, ended up losing 16-11. Just finally ran out of pitching. That was a somber group to talk to afterward.

 

I guess we are all (most) Evansville fans for the next 24 hours

 

All?

 

That's why I put most in parentheses

 

Would be nice to see West Virginia wins a championship in … something … before college sports implodes. Instead UNC makes it as the third ACC team to Omaha.

 

All-ACC/SEC College World Series is looking very possible.
Virginia: In
* FSU: In
~ UNC: In
* Clemson: Must beat Florida 2x
NC State: Needs 1 of 2 at Georgia

Tennessee: Plays Evansville in winner-take-all
Florida: Needs 1 of 2 at Clemson
Georgia: Must beat NC State 2x
ATM: Needs 1 of 2 vs. Oregon
Kentucky: Needs 1 of 2 vs. Oregon State

* Actively committing treason/secession
~ Whining but not yet committing treason/secession

Six of today's eight winners scored exactly 10 runs.

 

Did Clemsoning shift to baseball?

 

Can't really accuse them of gagging after the same dude hit a game-tying HR in the top of the ninth and made a Willie Mays catch to extend the game. And it was a tremendous game.

 

At one point (the 10th I think?) Clemson sent a pitcher off the bench for his first at bat of the season. Dude tossed his bat away thinking he’d drawn a walk when it was called strike two and his coach had to call time so he didn’t incur a pitch clock violation. Then he proceeded to take a borderline pitch and be surprised when he got rung up.

 

How’s the No. 1 ranked team that everyone is rooting against doing?

 

I meant more like losing 2-0 to literally the last team in the field as a six seed