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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Arkansas leading Murray State three to nothing. They're in the
bottom of the eighth and I have confirmed that this
is a no hitter, and they just lost the perfect
game with a hit by pitch, so it was perfect
through seven. Leadoff batter for Murray State got hit by
a pitch to start this inning and since then two
outs we got. The pitcher is Gage Wood for Arkansas.
(00:25):
He's been out there the whole time through seven and
two thirds, looking at trying to finish eight innings.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Fifteen.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Strikeouts, no walks, and no hits to this point. And
Scott Voriy's sitting alongside here. He's just eclipsed the over
one hundred pitches. I think he's at one oh three
right now, Scott, and you know, wow, he's just blowing
them away here with ninety seven mile an hour heaters.
(00:56):
How often has this even happened? I mean, he's got
through seven and two thirds a no hitter going here.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Right And let's just presume, for sake of not jinxing
anyone that this is not going to stand. If it did,
this would only be the third no hitter in College
World Series history. This is the seventy fifth anniversary of
the series. In Omaha. The first no hitter was thrown
by a guy out of Texas, Jim Ahler of Texas.
(01:23):
The first time that the College World Series was played
in Omaha at the old Rosenblatt Stadium, that was in
nineteen fifty. Okay, ten years later, sixty five years ago,
Oklahoma State's Jim Wickson tossed a no hitter.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
That's it. There hasn't been one since nineteen sixty.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
No, just two no hitters in the history of the CWS.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
So he's got two count here, two outs, runner on
first and out of the stretch with is fouled off. Yeah,
I mean, and think about this were either of those perfect.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Games, I don't know not I would guess he had
the perfect game until the start of this eighth inning
when he hit a guy.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
So you know, it's just.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Well, just keep hitting guys and you'll get in with
the no hit. Now you're gonna lose the ball game
and it'll go on for a long time.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Comes back with a breaking ball and struck him out swinging.
He has sixteen strikeouts and will take a no hitter
into the.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Ninth and he is jacked up. He it's not like
he doesn't know it, and he knows exactly what he's doing.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
And they keep showing his mom and dad up there
in the stands, which is amazing. Dad's wearing a Hawaiian stirt.
A man of my own taste. Yeah, Murray State, they
came in with one of the top offenses in college
baseball and could score a lot of runs. They kept
themselves in the game offensively, just hit a couple of
really hard hit line drives right at outfielders, which kind
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of kept them from making a comeback. They lost six
to four against UCLA the other night, the Saturday afternoon.
They are being no hit right now by gage Wood
of Arkansas and we are going to the ninth. Arkansas
only leads three to nothing. So if he gets into
just even a little bit of trouble, I mean, the
game is still in the balance. But gee whiz, could
(03:17):
you imagine what would.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
You do if you were in that dugout? Are you
one of those It's like, don't even look at him,
don't talk to it.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
I am not I'll high five him when he comes
in the dugout after he gets off the mound. I
am staying far away from that.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Just just treat him like you would at any however,
you would consistently treat him again, just keep that up,
don't change anything.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Well, okay, so what about Okay, So let's say you're
in the dugout.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Yeah right, I go up to him and go, I
don't know if you know this, but you got to
hitter going are you are you scared?
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Are you nervous?
Speaker 1 (03:49):
No?
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Of course not.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
You don't do that.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Well, you know coaches, right, Dave van Horn, Da van Horn?
So with Dave van Horn, Yeah, former Husker coaches, the
coach last time Nebraska made to the College World Series,
I mean back to back years.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
What twenty three, twenty four years ago something like that.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Hasn't been that long.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
It's been that long.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
He's been at Arkansas thing since like four h five.
But anyway, he uh, he doesn't think about pulling him
out here, and they're showing the replay of him.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
He definitely not gonna pull him up. When he came
off the field after this strikeout, he didn't look like
he was nervous. He didn't have a look in his
face like, oh man, you gotta let him try to
finish this. Yeah, he looked like he was mad that
he had to go back to the dugout. He's like,
just keep putting batters up there. I just want to
keep mowing guys down.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
I mean, this is I mean, we're talking super historic
situation occurring right now in Charles schwab Field gage Wood,
the right hander from Arkansas. Sixteen strike I'd love to know,
like what the most strike as in the game is.
I mean, he's got to be knocking on that. I mean,
this guy's going to look up some recon on that.
(04:58):
But wow, that is some wild wild stuff. Murray State
is they're top reliever in the ballgame. Just try to
keep him at a zero here. But yeah, I mean
look at him like he's he's so jacked up, even
just in the uh in the dugout here. So seventeen
(05:20):
seventeen is the most ever done. Yeah at Arizona States.
Ed Bain accomplished that in nineteen seventy two and then
two years ago Ty Floyd of LSU.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Okay, seventeen, he's got sixteen.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
Yeah, and that's for a nine inning College World Series game.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Right, He's got sixteen yeah, So that's on the line now.
So he's and the only base runer they've allowed he
actually hit a guy at the start of the eighth inning.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
That's it. He deserved it. Don't put your arm there.
Uh yeah, that's tough.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
I'm trying to find there's an ad playing, but they
got a video here of the Yeah, I'm looking at
it right here. Oh it was his back foot. It
was a curve ball that hit the back foot of
the batter, and that's how the perfect game got lost.
But that's the only thing that's it. That's the only
thing that he's allowed on the base pass. A truly
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remarkable development happening, and we'll see if he's able to
finish it off. I'm going to take a break though.
Arkansas a three to nothing lead. But the bigger story
is that Arkansas is two outs away. Gage Wood is
two outs away from potential no hit or territory. He
hit a batter at the top at the first batter
of the bottom of the eighth inning, and that's the
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only thing that's stopping him from a perfect game right
now and here to start the bottom of the ninth,
the pinch hitter came on and he hit him, but
it's ruled. It was ruled a hit by pitch. They
reviewed it and said that he actually leaned into the ball,
which is as technically a strike, and that goes down
to strike three.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Now I'm gonna have to.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Check the score to make sure that that's still considered
a strikeout.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
It is.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
They said that strikeout number seventeen that ties the record,
So that would tie the record.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
He's one strikeout away also of having the record for
most strikeouts in a game in College World Series history.
And if you missed our last segment, there hasn't been
a College World Series no hitter since nineteen sixty and
there's only been two ever. Got one here. This is
the number eight hitter, so this is bottom of the
order for they started at number eight in the order,
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so this was this would be the number nine hitter,
betting twice and then the best hitter in the Murray
State orders their leadoff man and he should be in
the on deck circle. Murray State just trying to get
a couple of guys on here because it's still a ballgame.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Only down three to nothing.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
A couple of guys get on base, and we got ourselves,
got ourselves a chance at flipping the script completely here.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
What do you think is more difficult here? Emory psychologically
continuing the no hitter or as a pitcher or the
batter trying to break it.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Well.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
And that's the thing, the unwritten rules of baseball, especially
in the moment where your season is on the line. Here,
I mean, if Murray State loses this game, they are done.
Uh yeah, I mean I would think that. I mean
the amount of no hitters, strike three, there's the there's
the record for strikeouts.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
I was eighteen in the ballgame, and he is one
out away from a no hitter. Do you want can
we take this live?
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Is this.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
I don't think so well. I'm just saying, like, I mean,
what a moment this could end up being here?
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Its history is Fox is jumping one.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Uh it's unreal. They have him listed here at seventeen strikeouts,
so I'm not sure. Maybe there's some like discernment about
what that hit by pitch that was ruled as strike
what that looks like.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
But he's one out of way.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
The bigger story is the no hitter, obviously, and I
want to know here, and I think this is Jonathan
hoe Guart that's at the plate, who is the best
batter in the Murray State order, and he has the
most home runs the most hits on the season, so
this is best on best here, and the umpire just
took one to the dome off the foul tip there.
(09:15):
And he's throwing one hundred and seventeen pitches, so he's
he's been working pretty hard out there. You don't see
that too many pitch counts get that high in any
level of baseball these days.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
His arm is looped up. I don't think he's feeling
any pain right now. This kid is dialed in and
he's just piping it down the middle and catching these
batters swinging.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
And he's got the off speed working too, and he
can throw ninety seven. There's another fastball on the outside.
That was ninety eight. He got it to ninety eight
on the fastball there.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Good pitch one and just outside in the strike zone.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
One strike away to history taking place here in Omaha.
Gage Wood winds with fires.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
No hitter, a no hitter in the College World Series
for gage Wood.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Let's listen to the crowd. That's the fan that those
are the Arkansas players mobbing their pitcher.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
I cannot believe that just happened.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
So Murray State, the Cinderella story is they're out, and
not only are they out, but they fall victim to
the first no hitter in sixty five years at the
College World Series.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
It just feel like in the seventy fifth anniversary of
this game being played in Omaha, this series in Omaha,
that something special was going to happen this year. I mean,
this is I mean, you've got guys who have been
here since the beginning and with this number seventy five,
this is this is going to be the end in
terms of the BigMan. These guys aren't going to make
(11:04):
it to one hundred and twenty years old. These guys,
so some of these big names that have been around
the series for seventy five years in Omaha to be
able to witness this, that's.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Special, unbelievable stuff. And of course that's the first no
hitter in the College World Series. At Charles schwab Field, Arkansas,
it's their first no hitter in the College World Series
despite having been here forever and ever and ever, right
because it was what Texas and.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
Oklahoma statesa state nexus in nineteen fifty Jim Earler and
then ten years later nineteen sixty Oklahoma State's Jim Wickson.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
He's the first non Jim. He's the first first guy
not named Jim to throw a no hitter in the
College World Series gage Wood. And this was against Donnie Hogart,
who's the best hitter for Murray. Stayton was just absolutely
red hot, on fire. He had three hits on Saturday
in the losing Africainst UCLA. Just an outstanding hitter and
just blew them away. I mean, I cannot believe we
(12:01):
just saw this.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
And he basically did it on pretty much nine straight pitches.
I don't know how many were in this last inning.
It might have been ten or eleven. He's just bringing
heat and daring you.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
To hit it, and he was locating everything. Just he
was locating everything. Just unbelievable.