We really did, against a very good hitting team.”Įast Carolina (46-21) had the Longhorns eight outs from elimination on Saturday, but the Pirates couldn’t hang onto a five-run lead with two outs in the bottom of the seventh. Fortunately, we got six out of him - six outstanding innings from him.
The plan was that and then kind of piecing it together. Just knowing that we have a lead, just pound the strike zone, make them earn it. “I think the big innings, the first two innings were huge for not only him, but even the rest of the bullpen. “The goal was three to five (innings) from Tristan,” Pierce said. Stevens protected a 9-1 lead entering the bottom of the second by firing five scoreless frames on an unforgettable night, which came on the heels of him throwing 23 combined pitches over the first two games of the series. Taking the mound following the delay and after Texas completed a four-run first inning more than five hours after it started, Stevens minimized a two-on, no-out jam with the Pirates scoring their lone of run of the night on an RBI sacrifice fly to center field by right fielder Jacob Jenkins-Cowart. Getting the opportunity to do that tonight, it made everything I've ever worked for all worth it. “This is exactly why I came back was to help this team get to Omaha and win a championship. “I texted Coach Pierce and Coach Allen saying I wanted the ball and they gave it to me,” said Stevens, who said he was ready to seize the moment after Allen sent him a text message Sunday morning about the staff’s decision to let him toe the rubber first in what was expected to be an all-hand-on-deck pitching plan. The trust Pierce has long had in Stevens was rewarded with the veteran’s desire to get the Longhorns to Omaha for the second year in a row carrying him to one of the most memorable postseason pitching efforts in program history. Pierce said he, pitching coach Sean Allen and the rest of the staff made the decision to give the ball to Stevens at breakfast Sunday morning. Stevens delivered a performance for the ages with a one-run, five-hit gem with five strikeouts on 101 pitches to lift Texas (47-20) to the program’s NCAA-record 38th all-time trip to the College World Series. local time, more than six hours after the scheduled first pitch thanks to two different weather delays, Tristan Stevens took the mound with the poise and purpose befitting a fifth-year senior pitching an a do-or-die situation. With both squads and whatever remained of the 5,878 fans who initially filed into Clark-LeClear Stadium running almost purely on adrenaline by the time head coach David Pierce’s club resumed batting in the top of the first at 10:15 p.m. One could also highlight second baseman Murphy Stehly’s second-inning two-run double to ignite a five-run frame after play resumed as the moment when the Longhorns landed the knockout blow to effectively punch their ticket to Omaha. It’s easy to point to the three-run first-inning home run by first baseman Ivan Melendez - College Baseball Newspaper's National Player of the Year cranked his BBCOR-era record 32nd bomb of the season one over the left-field wall - before Sunday’s finale of the Greenville Super Regional went into a weather delay just shy of five hours as the catalyst for Texas smashing East Carolina, 11-1, to advance to the College World Series.
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