Lost fly in 9th ends Texas' season, gives Stanford super regional title
Stanford's Alberto Rios celebrates after sprinting past Texas catcher Garrett Guillemette, right, to score the winning run on Drew Bowser's ninth-inning single in the Cardinal's super regional clincher Monday night.The fly ball hung and hung — seven seconds or so — eventually drifting over shallow right-center field at Sunken Diamond. Ninety-nine times out of 100, that routine fly is caught, and the game goes on.
But Monday night at Stanford’s 91-year-old stadium felt like a fever dream. And in this instance, what should have been an inning-ending fly out from Cardinal second baseman Drew Bowser instead vanished in the stadium’s lights and plopped down in the outfield, a staggering season-ending guillotine for a Texas team that had roared back from yet another deficit in this NCAA super regional.
Bower’s unusual ninth-inning walkoff RBI single secured a 7-6 win for No. 8 national seed Stanford, leaving the unseeded Longhorns one win shy of their third straight College World Series berth. Instead, the Cardinal will advance to Omaha for the third straight year to face No. 1 national seed Wake Forest.
“Disappointed with the outcome for us,” Texas coach David Pierce said. “We played our hearts out so year. I’m just so dang proud of them. But it’s unfortunate to lose a game like that, such a hard-fought game by both teams.”
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