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The All-MVC Level
There are lots of painful ways to lose a critical baseball game. Texas experienced one of the worst last night in game 3 of the Super Regional played at Stanford.
Texas had won game one with a 9th inning 5-run rally to steal a victory. Stanford's Quinn Matthews threw a 156-pitch complete game to even the series and set up the deciding game 3.
Stanford dominated again as it had in game 1; however, Texas rallied to tie the game at 6 heading into the bottom of the ninth as Stanford came to bat.
Moments later, it was runners on first and second and two outs. The pitcher induces a major league-high pop fly into right-center field. It is about 9 pm in Palo Alto and twilight so that the stadium lights have not taken full effect on the eyes and the CF and RF are looking into the setting sun.
The pitcher points to RF and starts walking to the Texas dugout knowing he had gotten the third out. The RF, CF, and second baseman are all running to right center field. The pitcher turns to watch the catch being made but sees that all three fielders have stopped dead in their tracks unable to see the ball. The shortstop does see the ball and launches a dead sprint into short right-center only to come up about 5 feet short as it lands for the series winning hit.
Needless to say, the players on both teams are stunned with this sudden turn of events.
Third straight trip for the Standford Cardinal to the CWS. I do believe the better team won as Stanford had largely dominated the series while Texas had two big innings over the 27 played.
Texas had won game one with a 9th inning 5-run rally to steal a victory. Stanford's Quinn Matthews threw a 156-pitch complete game to even the series and set up the deciding game 3.
Stanford dominated again as it had in game 1; however, Texas rallied to tie the game at 6 heading into the bottom of the ninth as Stanford came to bat.
Moments later, it was runners on first and second and two outs. The pitcher induces a major league-high pop fly into right-center field. It is about 9 pm in Palo Alto and twilight so that the stadium lights have not taken full effect on the eyes and the CF and RF are looking into the setting sun.
The pitcher points to RF and starts walking to the Texas dugout knowing he had gotten the third out. The RF, CF, and second baseman are all running to right center field. The pitcher turns to watch the catch being made but sees that all three fielders have stopped dead in their tracks unable to see the ball. The shortstop does see the ball and launches a dead sprint into short right-center only to come up about 5 feet short as it lands for the series winning hit.
Needless to say, the players on both teams are stunned with this sudden turn of events.
Third straight trip for the Standford Cardinal to the CWS. I do believe the better team won as Stanford had largely dominated the series while Texas had two big innings over the 27 played.
