June 18, 2011 the start of the College World Series, the first game in TD Ameritrade Park and I got to be a part of it all. It was a great day for baseball, the sun was shining, it had the cool breeze of early summer, and the scent of freshly mowed grass was still lingering in the air. The park was packed with fans who had traveled from all over the country to see one of sport’s greatest spectacles. Some weren’t even fans of any teams but just wanted to be in attendance and witness the greatness of the event. The College World Series is one of the purest things in sports you could ever be a part of because everyone on every team is there for one reason and one reason only, to win the National Championship. The first game between Vanderbilt
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Both teams pushed runs across in the first inning, then in the second UNC snatched a 2-1 lead. Heading into the fifth inning UNC was leading 3-2, but then Vanderbilt opened the floodgates tacking on 5 runs in the next three innings to take a 7-3 lead and win the game. Even though the supposed “warmup” exceeded expectations everyone was still hyped for the night game.
The pregame atmosphere for the Florida vs. Texas game was quite a bit different. Both teams had seasoned veterans and both looked relaxed and loose. And once again it showed in warmups, neither team looked better than the other with both having an excellent final tuneup before the game began.
The teams seemed to have forgot their great warm up becausegame got off to a slow start with the pitchers holding both teams in check with no runs for either side in the first two frames of action. Then in the top of the third Texas broke the game wide open with three runs to take the lead. Florida answered back with two of their own however to keep things close, and then the runs kept coming scoring two more in the next inning to take a 4-3 lead, which increased to 5-3 after they plated another run in the fifth. Texas kept things close with a run in the top of the seventh, but Florida had other ideas scoring three runs in the next two innings to seal the game and capture an 8-4
Both teams pushed runs across in the first inning, then in the second UNC snatched a 2-1 lead. Heading into the fifth inning UNC was leading 3-2, but then Vanderbilt opened the floodgates tacking on 5 runs in the next three innings to take a 7-3 lead and win the game. Even though the supposed “warmup” exceeded expectations everyone was still hyped for the night game.
The pregame atmosphere for the Florida vs. Texas game was quite a bit different. Both teams had seasoned veterans and both looked relaxed and loose. And once again it showed in warmups, neither team looked better than the other with both having an excellent final tuneup before the game began.
The teams seemed to have forgot their great warm up becausegame got off to a slow start with the pitchers holding both teams in check with no runs for either side in the first two frames of action. Then in the top of the third Texas broke the game wide open with three runs to take the lead. Florida answered back with two of their own however to keep things close, and then the runs kept coming scoring two more in the next inning to take a 4-3 lead, which increased to 5-3 after they plated another run in the fifth. Texas kept things close with a run in the top of the seventh, but Florida had other ideas scoring three runs in the next two innings to seal the game and capture an 8-4