May 29 at Hawkins Field in Nashville, TN
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Radford came into its first-ever NCAA Regional on a 15-game winning streak, but Indiana starter Kyle Hart turned out to be main story. The southpaw, who is coming off Tommy John surgery, tossed seven innings of no-earned run ball and struck out six in the Hoosiers' 7-1 win.
Tommy John Surgery? Is the word 'surgery' capitalized?
Also, 'surgery' is an interesting-looking word when you stare at it for a while. It looks like a misspelling of the word 'sugary', or, perhaps 'sugary' is a misspelling of the word 'surgery'.
* Couple oddities early on. Indiana got out of the bottom of the first with what I'm assuming is an extremely-rare, 2-6-2 triple play with catcher Brad Hartong diving to tag out Shane Johnsonbaugh attempting to get back to third.
In the third, Casey Rodrique hit a ball that was basically a pop up behind second. It might've been a bit wind-blown, but no infielder could get to it before right fielder Brad Keen dropped the ball and Rodrique raced to third. Official scorer: TRIPLE.
Rodrique later scored on Hartong's single to give the No. 3 seed Hoosiers the lead for the rest of the day.
* Great day for Dave Neal and Chris Burke in the booth:
"Cat and mouse game"
"180 in momentum"
"24-7"
"The pendulum starts to swing a little bit"
"Spit on the 1-2 change up"
"The rigors of a minor league season"
"His arsenal"
"Not afraid to body a ball up"
"Gift-wrapped triple"
"Flashing some of that leather"
And one final note from Burke, who in the fifth inning said: "that's just a good baseball play."
Thank goodness.
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