{"id":18546,"date":"2024-06-25T11:05:07","date_gmt":"2024-06-25T15:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=18546"},"modified":"2024-06-25T11:05:08","modified_gmt":"2024-06-25T15:05:08","slug":"2024-cws-finals-tennessee-wins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=18546","title":{"rendered":"2024 CWS finals: Tennessee Wins"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/tennesseewins2024cws_viancaa.com_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"976\" height=\"650\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/tennesseewins2024cws_viancaa.com_.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18547\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/tennesseewins2024cws_viancaa.com_.jpg 976w, https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/tennesseewins2024cws_viancaa.com_-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/tennesseewins2024cws_viancaa.com_-768x511.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 976px) 100vw, 976px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Requisite dog pile.  Photo via NCAA.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>So, for as good of a 2023 CWS finals matchup that we had (Florida vs LSU), this year we might have had an even better matchup: #1 Tennessee versus #3 Texas A&amp;M.  They were #1 and #2 in RPI, #1 and #4 in D1baseball&#8217;s final rankings, and TAMU probably had a better argument to be seeded ahead of Kentucky had they not gone 2-and-out in the SEC tourney.  Both mostly cruised through the entire post-season to get here (TAMU went 8-0 in the CWS before the final, Tennessee 8-1 after going 4-1 in the SEC tourney to win it).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So it was fitting that it went three, and that it came down to a nail-biting 9th inning with the tying runs on base before Tennessee took it.  Here&#8217;s a quick game by game recap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\" id=\"block-55aff6ad-eecb-4d75-9d1c-8b185052e96b\">\n<li>Game 1: Tennessee&#8217;s starter didn&#8217;t get out of the first (though I thought it was a quick hook), and it didn&#8217;t matter as TAMU put 7 runs up in the first three innings to cruise to an easy win.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Game 2:  A close game was opened up with two late homers from Tenn to force the tiebreaker.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Game 3: Tennessee&#8217;s starter Zander Sechrist shut down TAMU and the game 2 winner Aaron Combs came back on zero days rest after throwing 60+ pitchers to almost give away the game.  <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"block-fb42780e-bb64-4344-809e-2313517cdee8\"><strong>Your 2024 College World Series Champion<\/strong>: Tennessee, the first #1 seed to win it in 20+ years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Quick recap of top draft prospect CWS finals performance:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>TAMU&#8217;s <strong>Braden Montgomery<\/strong>, injured in the regional, is falling on draft boards and could get to the Nats at #10.  <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Christian Moore<\/strong>, 2B, Tennessee: 0-5 in the 1st game, 1-3 in the 2nd game and was pulled (not often you see your 1st round prospect replaced), 1-5 in the 3rd.  Not a good final.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Billy Amick<\/strong>, 3B, Tennessee: 1-3 with 2 BB in the 1st game, 0-5 with a sombrero in the 2nd, 1-4 in the 3rd.  Also not a good final.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s some links to past years of CWS coverage here. I&#8217;ve been doing this for more than 10 years now! Each link below is the blog post covering that CWS final.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>2023: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=18106\">LSU Wins<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2022: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=17654\">Ole Miss wins<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2021: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=17149\">Mississippi State wins<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2020: Covid: no season<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2019: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=16048\">Vanderbilt wins<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2018: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=15241\">Oregon State wins<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2017: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=14180\">Florida wins<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2016: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=12658\">Coastal Carolina wins<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2015: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=10975\">Virginia wins<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2014: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=9462\">Vanderbilt wins<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2013: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=7064\">UCLA wins<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, for as good of a 2023 CWS finals matchup that we had (Florida vs LSU), this year we might have had an even better matchup: #1 Tennessee versus #3 Texas A&amp;M. They were #1 and #2 in RPI, #1 and #4 in D1baseball&#8217;s final rankings, and TAMU probably had a better argument to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18546"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18549,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18546\/revisions\/18549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}