Sadly, Penn State's baseball season ended before the Big Ten Tournament. Three Big Ten teams made the field of 64 for the NCAA Baseball Tournament: Indiana (Tournament Champion), Ohio State (regular season champion), and Minnesota (regular season runner-up).The first big story of this year's NCAA Tournament was the first loss of the year for San Diego State pitcher Stephen Strasburg, who is a lock to be the first pick of the upcoming Major League Baseball Draft by the Washington Nationals. Strasburg has been called by some the best pitching prospect ever. We're not sure if we believe that hype, but his numbers are ridiculous: 13-1 with a 1.32 ERA, 195 strikeouts and only 19 walks in 109 innings. If you live in the Capital region, be sure to catch Strasburg when he plays for the Harrisburg Senators.
Back to his loss: the Azteks opened the Tournament against eventual regional winner Virginia. Strasburg gave up a pair of runs over seven innings in a 5-2 loss. But what really caught our eye was 15 strikesouts and no walks against a really good team.
On Saturday night, Texas outlasted Boston College in the longest game in NCAA history. It ended after 25 innings and more than seven hours. Texas reliever Austin Wood pitched 13 innings, including 12⅓ innings of no-hit ball. He tossed the rock 169 times. (So much for pitch counts!)
Ohio State dropped their Tournament opener, a 24-8 woodshed beating by Georgia. The Buckeyes fought back, eliminating Marist and Georgia to reach the regional final against homestanding Florida State.
The Buckeyes fell behind 20-0 after three innings...then the wheels really came off the bus. After the 'Noles plated 11 in the top of the fifth it was 32-0! Then the Buckeyes roared back, outscoring F$U 6-5 over the final four-and-a-half frames. The final was 37-6. This is not a typo, it was thirty-seven to six. And yes, it was baseball, not a BCS Championship Game.
Florida State set school records for runs (37), hits (38), doubles (15), and total bases (66), while the four above mentioned records plus the 51 combined hits by both teams set NCAA Tournament single-game records. The Seminoles also tied a school record for RBI (34) and most combined runs by two teams with 43. The 15 doubles by the F$U also eclipsed the NCAA single-game record of 13 held by three different teams.
F$U is undefeated against the Buckeyes in football, but have never scored 37.
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