Saturday, June 4, 2016

Second Game: Auburn 4 Georgia 3

On ESPN2 we see the Tigers win a thriller and move to within one win of advancing to the championship round of he 2016 College Softball National Championship.
The Tigers get a run in the top of the first but trail 3 to 1 going into the 7th.  Two singles and a Bulldog error and the Tigers hold the 4 to 3 lead in the bottom of the inning.  That's quite a 7th inning rally!  Three runs in the final inning to win it.  The Dogs get two runners on base in the bottom of the inning but the game ends on a grounder back to our pitcher.
The winning run comes in a bizarre manner.
With runners on first and second there's a ground ball to the second baseman.  She tries to tag the runner going to second rather than go for what would have been an inning ending double play.  She finally flips the ball to get the force out but the runner on third comes on with the go ahead and winning run.
Our runner going to second is actually called out by going too far our of the baseline.  Our runner on first left the bag thinking that was the third out and she was called out when our first base coach touched her to get her back to the bag.  There was momentary confusion on the field, but the run counted because the third called out at first came AFTER the run scored.
WHEW!
That was exciting.  Now on to tomorrow.

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