OMAHA, Neb. — Chase Burns pitched six shutout innings in reduction of Chase Dollander, Tennessee manufactured two runs to interrupt a tie within the seventh, and the Volunteers knocked Stanford out of the College World Series with a 6-4 victory Monday.
Tennessee (44-21) ended a six-game CWS dropping streak courting to 2001 and performs Tuesday in opposition to the loser of the Monday night time recreation between No. 1 nationwide seed Wake Forest and No. 5 LSU.
Stanford (44-20) went 0-2 on the CWS for a second straight 12 months.
Burns (5-3) turned in one other dominant reduction efficiency, mixing his slider with a fastball he ran as much as 102 mph whereas hanging out 9 and limiting the Cardinal to 2 hits. In 4 match appearances, he has allowed one run and struck out 22 in 16 innings.
The Vols took the lead within the seventh when Griffin Merritt drew a leadoff stroll from Matt Scott (5-5), reached third on Blake Burke’s double and scored on Denton’s grounder to brief. Burke made it a two-run recreation when he got here house on Brandt Pancer’s wild pitch.
Quinn Mathews, who made nationwide headlines for throwing 156 pitches in super-regional win over Texas on June 11, held the Volunteers scoreless till they batted round on him within the fifth inning and compelled his departure.
Hunter Ensley’s sacrifice fly, Jared Dickey’s base hit up the center and Christian Moore’s two-run single tied it 4-all. Mathews left with the bases loaded after having thrown 89 pitches and permitting 10 hits.
Dollander lasted solely three innings, matching his shortest outing of the season. The projected first-round draft decide gave up two runs within the first inning and two within the third, allowed 4 hits, walked two and struck out two.
The wind was blowing in, making circumstances unfavorable for 2 groups that use the house run to generate a lot of their offense.
Tennessee’s Maui Ahuna tried to attain on a fly to left within the first inning however was simply thrown out at house by shallow-playing Alberto Rios.
The Vols tried Rios once more within the fifth, sending Denton house on a fly that was a bit deeper. Rios’ throw was off line, and Denton was in a position to slide in forward of Malcolm Moore’s tag.
Stanford requested for video evaluations of the decision on the plate and to see if Denton left third earlier than the catch. The play stood, and the Vols continued their onslaught in opposition to Mathews.
It was the third time in six NCAA Tournament wins that the Vols got here from behind. They’ve worn out four-run deficits twice when going through elimination. After dropping their tremendous regional opener at Southern Mississippi, they have been down 4-0 after three innings in Game 2 and rallied to win 8-4.
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