June 22 & 24 at TD Ameritrade Park in Omaha, NE
ESPN
Let's start with a quick interview during game 1 of the College World Series championship series, which defending champion Vanderbilt won 5-1.
The ESPN reporter was in the stands talking to UVA coach Brian O'Connor's father, "Mr. O'Connor", and the first question was 'why do you think he (Brian O'Connor) is so much more relaxed in his second year at the CWS'?
Mr. O'Connor's first two words: "Who, Brian?"
Yeah, Brian!!
Boone Phrases
Another big night for Aaron Boone in the booth:
"North-south action"
"Push the envelope"
"A chance for Jones to wiggle out"
"Climb the ladder"
"Hit a couple balls on the screws"
"That's when Connor Jones...became a dude"
"Little blown tire there"
National champions
In the deciding game of the series, freshman Pavin Smith hit a tying, two-run home run in the fourth, then drove in a go-ahead single to the opposite field in the fifth as the Cavaliers won 4-2 and captured the school's first-ever national title.
* UVA used two southpaw pitchers and both were excellent. Brandon Waddell started on three-days rest and allowed two runs in seven innings, retiring the final 11 batters he faced. Blessed with a two-run lead, Nathan Kirby pitched the final two frames, striking out five with a filthy slider, while giving up just a single.
* It's the first national baseball title for the Atlantic Coast Conference since Wake Forest in 1955. That might as well be 1855. It had been a LONG TIME since the ACC won a national championship in baseball.
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