{"id":205825,"date":"2026-03-05T16:48:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T16:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/205825\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T16:48:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T16:48:24","slug":"antigua-brown-and-grimmer-combine-for-seven-rbi-in-11-2-rout-of-oakland-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/205825\/","title":{"rendered":"Antigua, Brown and Grimmer Combine for Seven RBI in 11-2 Rout of Oakland"},"content":{"rendered":"

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. \u2013 No. 17\/19 Tennessee cruised to its fourth straight win behind a dominant performance from its pitching staff and home runs from Blaine Brown<\/a> and Ariel Antigua<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Volunteers took off right out of the gate with two straight singles from Jay Abernathy<\/a> and Henry Ford<\/a>. Abernathy came in to score after the Oakland first baseman made an error on a Reese Chapman<\/a> ground ball, giving the Vols an early 1-0 lead.\u00a0<\/p>\n

With two runners on and one out, first baseman Blake Grimmer<\/a> stepped in for his first at-bat of the season and laced a double off the wall in left-center field, clearing the bases to extend the UT lead to three.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Big Orange added three more to their tally in the bottom of the third. Brown led off the inning with a 113-mph rocket off the right field wall to set up another Chapman RBI with a single through the right side. A Chris Newstrom<\/a> ground out, and a Trent Grindlinger<\/a> single to center field plated one run apiece, making the score 6-0 Volunteers after three innings.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Brown kept the train rolling in the fourth inning with a two-run home run into the parking lot behind right field, increasing the Tennessee lead to eight.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Golden Grizzlies scored their first run of the game in the sixth on a solo shot to left by shortstop Kyle Revere and added one more on a home run by left fielder Tony Konopiots in the seventh, making the score 8-2.\u00a0<\/p>\n

After a quiet next two innings from the Vols, Antigua got UT back on the board with his first career home run, launching a three-run blast into the porches in left field to cap the scoring for the game.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Vols cruised through the eighth and ninth innings, retiring the Golden Grizzlies in order in both frames to seal their 10th win of the season.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Grimmer went 3-for-4 at the dish with a pair of RBIs in his season debut to lead the Big Orange offensively while junior Bowling Green transfer Garrett Wright<\/a> also had a pair of hits and reached base four times during his first time in the lineup this year after recovering from a broken hamate bone.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Freshmen pitchers Jax Bishop<\/a> and Will Haas<\/a> both made their first collegiate appearances on the mound, each getting an inning of work in the victory.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Tennessee pitching combined for 15 strikeouts on the night, with freshman left-hander Taylor Tracey<\/a> leading the way. The Texas native tossed three innings of no-hit baseball and struck out seven Grizzlies in his first career start.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Nic Abraham<\/a> earned his second-career win after tossing two scoreless innings of relief and striking out three batters as the first arm out of the bullpen.\u00a0<\/p>\n

UP NEXT: The Vols continue their six-game homestand on Friday at 6:30 p.m. at Lindsey Nelson Stadium as they host Wright State for a three-game set.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KNOXVILLE, Tenn. \u2013 No. 17\/19 Tennessee cruised to its fourth straight win behind a dominant performance from its…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204855,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-205825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}