![]() ![]() It just stinks that it's over."įlorida led 2-1 after the first inning, and neither team scored again until TCU tied it in the bottom of the eighth when Tre Richardson singled and came home on Anthony Silva's deep fly to left-center that bounced over the fence for a ground-rule double. I think it completely changes our program in terms of what they did from the middle part of the season until now. "But like I told them, just the story and the journey that they took us on this year will never be forgotten. ![]() "Obviously ran up against a great Florida team and just came up one run short," Horned Frogs coach Kirk Saarloos said. TCU (44-24) staved off elimination twice to get to Wednesday's game, and it finished the season with wins in 21 of 25 games. The teams meet again Thursday.įlorida is in the finals for the fourth time, and first since it won the national championship in 2017. LSU forced a second bracket final with a 5-2 win over Wake Forest on Wednesday. 1 national seed Wake Forest or LSU in the best-of-three championship series starting Saturday. "Florida is going to be the team to win this thing," he said. ![]() They're hot at the right time, and TCU's Taylor could see it Wednesday. The Gators have won eight in a row since facing elimination in the regional they hosted. Then on Sunday, they survived Oral Roberts' inside-the-park home run, O'Sullivan's mound-visit rules violation that forced their closer out of the game and anxious moments in the last two innings to win 5-4. The Gators' run started Friday with a walk-off 6-5 win over Virginia after they erased a two-run deficit in the ninth. "There's a lot of things that have to go right," O'Sullivan said.įlorida joined Eastern Michigan in 1976, South Carolina in 1977 and Texas in 2002 as the only teams in the 76-year history of the MCWS to win their first three games by a single run. Michael Robertson, who scored the winning run as a pinch runner and stayed in the game to play center field, ran down Brayden Taylor's deep fly to make a dazzling catch at the wall to end the game. "I know I overstate it and say it over and over, but we just played three one-run games and they're all nail-biters down to the end."Ĭade Kurland, who had struggled at the plate in the MCWS, reached on an infield single to drive in the tiebreaking run in the ninth. It's just not," coach Kevin O'Sullivan said. One-run games never get old as long as you're winning - and Florida is doing plenty of that right now.įlorida reached the Men's College World Series finals with a 3-2 victory over TCU on Wednesday, making the Gators the fourth team in history to win their bracket with three straight one-run wins. You have reached a degraded version of because you're using an unsupported version of Internet Explorer.įor a complete experience, please upgrade or use a supported browserįlorida locks up spot in MCWS finals with win over TCU ![]()
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