Taylor Jungmann threw nine impressive innings leading the Longhorns to a 5-1 Game 2 win.
The College World Series will come to an exciting end tonight in Omaha, Nebraska at Rosenblatt Stadium. Rosenblatt Stadium is one of the most storied and revered baseball stadiums in the country and it has seen its fair share of excitement not only in 2009 but throughout the past 50 plus seasons.
Rosenblatt has been home to the CWS since 1950 and is the largest non-MLB professional stadium in the United States. It is home to the Omaha Royals of the Pacific Coast League.
The final round of the series has pitted the Texas Longhorns against the LSU Tigers in a best of three match-up. LSU came back late in game one to win in extras and take a 1-0 series lead over the #1 team in the nation in Texas. Game 2 saw Texas jump out to an early 5-1 lead that held up for the rest of the night, helping the Longhorns knot the series at 1 games apiece.
Game 3, which is for all the marbles, will take place tonight at Rosenblatt Stadium. Taylor Jungmann is the reason for a Game 3. He pitched nine dominating innings for the Longhorns, one night after the bullpen was worn out. If Texas pulls out a win on Wednesday night they will have secured their seventh baseball national championship in school history.
So who will it be in 2009? 2008 saw the Cinderella story of Fresno State winning their first ever College World Series title, defeating Georgia 2 games to 1 in the best of three series. 2009 has pitted two completely different teams against each other in the final round and for the second straight year the final round will take all three games to determine a title winner.
Texas is looking for its first national title since 2005, when they defeated Florida two games to none. LSU is looking for its first national title since they defeated Standford in 2000 by a score of 6-5. The College World Series went to a best of three series in 2003, when Rice defeated Stanford in three games.
Once the series concludes tongiht we will also find out which player was named the CWS MVP. As we have seen in the past, not every MVP winner at the CWS is from the national championship winning team. The last player named MVP to not be on the winning team was John Hudgins of Standford in 2003. His team lost to Rice in three games.
