UGA Baseball Chews Nails; Eliminates Texas at CWS | Dawgs-OU Wed Night at 7 PM

UGA pitching stitched together nine innings of scoreless baseball to eliminate the Texas Longhorns from the College World Series Tuesday night. 

Georgia’s 2-0 win was the program’s 53rd win of the season - the most in school history. The Bulldogs face Oklahoma Wednesday night at 7 PM on ESPN. Georgia lost a 4-3 decision Monday night to the Sooners, and will have to knock OU off twice in a row to advance to the College World Series Championship, which begins Saturday night.

Perhaps the decisive moment of the game came inn the top of the seventh when Texas CF Dariyan Pendergrass appeared to catch Ryan Black’s blooper to right center. But as Pendergrass rolled over the ball fell out of his glove. UGA challenged the out call on the field, and once reviewed Black was called safe. 

Moments later Black scored from third on Rylan Lujo’s sacrifice fly to shallow left that saw two Longhorns collide. The mixup gave Black enough time to narrowly escape Carson Tinney’s tag at home. 

Georgia had the 2-0 lead it would take to the end of the game. 

The Bulldogs have wandered into a scoring drought of late. UGA’s combined five runs over the last two games is the fewest scored by the program in a two-game period this season. Tonight marks only the second time this season Georgia has won a game with two runs or fewer (at Auburn, 2-1 W). 

Even with a loss, the Dawgs’ pitching appears to be in good shape. The Bulldogs have only thrown four pitchers in three games in Omaha. 

Tre Phelps told ESPN that the Dawgs’ pitching has been key. 

“They’ve been doing well all post-season,” he said on air after the game. 

Joey Volchko and Caden Aoki were the only two pitchers the Bulldogs used in the first two games of the CWS. Tuesday night the Dawgs used starter Dylan Vigue and Justin Byrd to blank the Horns. Vigue recored eight strikeouts in four full innings while allowing only two hits. Byrd threw the final five innings of the game - also allowing only four hits against the 18 batters he faced.