Here’s a recap of our CWS coverage so far for 2019:
- 2019 CWS Regional Results, Super Regional Pairings, Nats picks still playing
- 2019 CWS Super Regional Recaps, CWS Omaha field and performance of Nats draft picks
- 2019 CWS Group Winners and CWS Final preview
Here’s how the finals played out.
- Game 1 6/24/19: Michigan stud starter Tommy Murray held Vanderbilt to 3 runs on 6 innings while the Michigan offense continued to chug along, beating Vandy’s ace Drake Fellows 7-4 to take game 1.
- Game 2 6/25/19: Vanderbilt’s super freshman Kumar Rocker saved their day again, giving up 1 run on 3 hits with 11 punchouts in 6 1/3 innings against the best offensive team in the post season to force game 3.
- Game 3 6/26/19: Vanderbilt got to Michigan’s ace Karl Kaufmann and held on for the 8-2 win and the come-back title.
Your 2019 College World Series Champion: Vanderbilt
Commentary: The final played out like I thought it would, with Michigan stealing a win behind their lefty stud, but then Vandy coming back to win. Its still a pretty amazing accomplishment for Michigan to have gotten this far, but in the end the better, stronger team won.
This concludes the College Baseball season and our coverage of it for 2018. I’ll post one more post that covers draftees and signing status for all local-connected players (prep and college). I don’t really cover the summer collegiate wood bat leagues: for that I’d suggest NovaBaseball.com, which is really coming into its own in terms of local coverage for all players with local ties.
College CWS tournament references
- d1baseball.com’s daily scoreboard is my go-to link
- d1baseball’s Tourney Central
- Baseball America’s College coverage home page
- CollegeBaseballDaily.com has coverage as well.
- CollegeBaseballCentral.com has coverage as well.
- Ncaa.com’s interactive full 64-team bracket
- NCAA Individual player stats
- Warren Nolan.com’s College Baseball RPI
- Warren Nolan’s Conference RPI ranking