Vanderbilt entered the World Series Male Championships as the best classified team in the field of 64 teams and as winners of the dry tournament.
But with their loss on Sunday against Wright State, the commodores made a brutal history of baseball.
The defeat of 5-4 against raiders eliminated Vanderbilt from the World Series Regionals colleges. Despite his entry into the tournament as a seeded n ° 1 and winning their opening match – against Wright State – Vanderbilt dropped a pair of matches during the weekend to end their dreams from Omaha.
In the process, Vanderbilt has become the first seeded n ° 1 in the history of Men’s College World Series not to go to a regional final.
The commodores fell early on Sunday against the raiders, while Wright State hung four to the board of directors at the end of the first round. Gus Gregory RBI field brought back the first round of Wright State, then consecutive catches of the Boston Smith recipient and the Luke Arnold Copped stop brought three additional points to the marble.
Vanderbilt entered the top of the ninth trainer 5-1, but pushed three points through the plaque to reduce the advance of Wright State to 5-4, with the run-run on the third and the Go-Ahead of second place. But RJ Austin flew to the right field to finish the match and the season of Vanderbilt.
“I think they are all surprising when you are finished, when you lose,” said Vanderbilt Tim Corbin after defeat. “When you came out, you came out. There was no day when we got out of a tournament when I don’t feel the same. Right now, I feel good in the effort and how much we played. I just want the result to be different for boys. It stinks. But it is the nature of the game.
“It’s cruel. It can be cruel. “
History is sometimes.
