Walker Grisanti with a hugely clutch homer in the top of the 9th against the Dawgs (Photo, Vanderbilt Athletics).
Walker Grisanti cranked his first home run of the season last night in Athens. It couldn’t have come at a more opportune time.
Walker, batting for Julian Infante with one out in the top of the 9th with the Dores down 2-1, cranked a pitch over the right field wall to tie the game at 2 in dramatic fashion. Then in the top of the 11th, shortstop Ethan Paul went yard to right to put us up 3-2 and then Tyler Brown shut down the Dawgs in the bottom of the 11th to lead our No.5 Commodore baseball team to a dramatic 3-2 victory over the No.4 Georgia Bulldogs in Athens.
Drake Fellows got the start and pitched fantastically well going going 7, giving up 5 hits, 2 earned with a walk and 6 K’s. Superb performance by our stud junior. Lefty Zach King came on in the 8th and pitched 2 scoreless innings giving up just one hit, 0 runs with a walk and 2 K’’s. Then Tyler Brown came on in the 10th and pitched 2 scoreless running into a little trouble in the 11th with a runner on 2nd and 1 out getting a strikeout and a fly ball to JJ Bleday in right to close out the game.
It was one terrific baseball game and a huge win for us. We moved to 24-6 overall and 7-3 in the SEC. Georgia dropped to 25-6, 7-3. We are now tied with Georgia for the Eastern Division lead in the SEF. LSU leads the west at 7-3.
Righty Patrick Raby (5-0, 1.22 ERA) goes for us today against Georgia’s LHP C.J. Smith (2-1, 2.49).
First pitch is at 1 PM and will be broadcast by SEC Network+. Another huge contest for us. Hopefully, Rabes, the defense and bats get us over the hump again.
Will give a report tomorrow. Monday, Stack hire, baseball, football and MLB report.
Sonny pitched a brilliant game last night for the Reds going 6.2 innings, giving up 3 hits with 0 walks and 7 K’s. Sonny looked like Sonny. Unfortunately, the Reds lost 2-0 to the Pirates.
Mike Minor pitched a gem Wednesday Night at Arlington going 7 innings, giving up 5 hits, 0 runs with 2 walks and 7 K’s in a 4-0 Texas Rangers victory over the Houston Astros.
‘David (vs Dbacks) , Walker (vs Rockies) and Kyle Wright (Braves vs Marlins) in action tonight. Dansby and the Braves have been playing well winning 4 in a row to move to 4-3. Dans hitting .316. Tony getting action for the Astros. Will have more on him and Curt Casali as well on Monday.