All year long, Baseball America inexplicably ranked Oregon State higher than anyone else with a poll – and invariably higher than a Vanderbilt team that was cleaning house on a run to the SEC co-championship. So the draw in the NCAA Baseball Tournament Super Regionals was exactly what the ‘Dores wanted.<\/p>\n
Game one – OSU 1, Vandy 11.<\/p>\n
Game two – Vandy 9, OSU 3.<\/p>\n
NCAA Tournament thus far: Vandy (5-0) 46, Everybody Else Combined 7.<\/p>\n
I don’t know whether the proper music is “The Dambusters March” for Aaron Westlake’s three home runs tonight, or “All Of The Lights” for the extra lighting ESPN brought in to broadcast in HD, or “Sweet Caroline” and “I’m Shipping Up To Boston” for all our Northeastern guys (we do so much Red Sox shtick that we even have Carl Yastrzemski’s grandson on the roster, and he had a homer in yesterday’s game), or “The Edge Of Glory” for Sonny Gray, first-round pick of the Oakland A’s, who with Grayson Garvin and Corey Williams and Will Clinard delivered masterful pitching for 18 innings…<\/p>\n
…but if we have to go with just one song, it’s going to be the Pet Shop Boys.<\/p>\n
We’re off to Omaha. ANCHOR DOWN!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
All year long, Baseball America inexplicably ranked Oregon State higher than anyone else with a poll – and invariably higher than a Vanderbilt team that was cleaning house on a run to the SEC co-championship. So the draw in the NCAA Baseball Tournament Super Regionals was exactly what the ‘Dores wanted. Game one – OSU … <\/p>\n