Texas A&M entered its weekend series at Tennessee as this season’s most disappointing team in college baseball and then promptly got run-ruled Friday night by the Volunteers.
On Saturday, the Aggies showed why they were the preseason No. 1 pick.
Bouncing back from Friday’s 10-0 embarrassment, Texas A&M unleashed a combined 11 home runs in the afternoon and evening, repeatedly pounding the Vols in a doubleheader inside a stunned Lindsey Nelson Stadium by scores of 9-3 and 17-6. As a result, the impressive earned run averages of several Tennessee pitchers took a noticeable hit.
“We just got outplayed,” Vols third baseman Dalton Bargo said afterward in a news conference. “They just caught us at a bad time, and they played really well. On paper, they’re a very good team, and it’s baseball. Anything can happen.
“You’re going to have days when you have your teeth kicked in, and that’s what happened today.”