As all of you know Georgia's baseball team was significantly bad this year. However, tonight marked the one year anniversary of the 2006 Athens Regional Championship game in which the Bulldogs defeated Florida State. I hope that some of you were able to catch the 2007 Nashville Regional Championship game between Michigan and Vanderbilt on CSS. Though I was rooting for Vandy, the game reassured my belief that meaningful baseball is hard to beat. The game was full of tremendous plays from both teams. Vandy scored twice in the bottom half of the 8th to tie the game at 3. The game would go into extra innings after Michigan's second baseman made a diving catch for the 2nd out of the 9th to halt a great scoring chance for the Dores. In the top of the 10th with 1 out, a seldom used pinch-hitter for Michigan took a 3-1 fastball over the fence for his second career home run and a 4-3 lead. The home run came off of National Player of the year David Price who was making his first relief appearance of the year. With one out and the bases empty in the bottom of the 10th, Michigan's right fielder made a home run saving catch off the bat of Vanderbilt's Pedro Alvarez that secured the lead and help save the game for Michigan. Sorry for summarizing the game but I thought it was one of the finer baseball games I have ever seen. Georgia not being in the tourney takes a lot of the fun out of it for me. Some don't like aluminum bats, two-way players, the DH, diminishing the regular season, or baseball in February. But the brackets, cross-sectional match ups, passion, effort, strategy, and do or die scenarios are unmatched and makes College Baseball in June great.
