{"id":255316,"date":"2026-05-02T11:54:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T11:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/255316\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T11:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T11:54:10","slug":"florida-continues-to-showcase-it-is-essentially-a-one-man-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/255316\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida continues to showcase it is essentially a one man team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"inline-text-0\" class=\"mt-[18px] md:mt-0 mb-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5o\">Coming off a series loss in back-to-back weeks, it was fair to muse whether the Gators were essentially just Aidan King and friends. The <a href=\"https:\/\/hailfloridahail.com\/florida-has-to-prove-it-is-more-than-just-aidan-king\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sophomore ace<\/a> has morphed into one of the most dominant pitchers in all of college baseball, but at times it seems like he is surrounded by a squad of players who would struggle to make it on a high school JV squad.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-1\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5r\">Friday night was exhibit A of this on going trend as King delievered another gem of a performance only to get litteraly zero support en route to a 4-3 defeat to Oklahoma.<\/p>\n<p>Florida drops game one against Oklahoma<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-3\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5x\">King did his part going 7.0 innings with 10 strikeouts while giving up just one earned run.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-4\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"60\">And yet, his night ended with a no decision.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-5\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"63\">If one wants a snapshot of how the little things just continue to go wrong for Florida, look no further than the 2nd inning when Florida loaded the bases only to wind up with a NOBLETIGER (No-Outs Bases-Loaded Ending with Team Incapable of Getting Easy Run). This time around the culprit was Caden McDonald grounding into a fielder\u2019s choice, which in theory still would have scored a run expect Cade Kurland was called for runner\u2019s interference which resulted in a double play that also resulted in Ethan Surowiec having to return to 3rd base.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-6\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"66\">The inning ended with no runs scored.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-7\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"69\">Even with that, King left with a 3-1 lead heading into the bottom of the 8th inning after Blake Cyr hit a solo home run.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-8\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6c\">After a strikeout and a walk from Ernesto LugoCanchola, the Gators brought in Joshua Whritenour for an attempted five out save.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-9\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6f\">He didn\u2019t make it through the first out before giving up a game tying triple.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-10\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6i\">A two-out single proved to be the winning run and just for good measure the Gators made sure to have another error.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-11\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6l\">Forida is now 29-17 on the season and the problem is that Friday\u2019s loss isn\u2019t in a vaccum. It\u2019s a contunation of Florida finding new way to lose games that they could have won with just simple fundemental baseball.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-12\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6o\">Game two is at 7 PM with Liam Peterson getting the start.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"22\" height=\"22\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.minutemediacdn.com\/platform\/google_discover_icon.svg\" class=\"shrink-0\"\/>Add us as a preferred source on Google<a aria-label=\"Follow hailfloridahail.com on Google News\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=hailfloridahail.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" class=\"flex h-[30px] w-[30px] shrink-0 items-center justify-center rounded-full bg-primary font-group-large text-sm font-medium text-white transition-colors hover:bg-secondary focus:bg-secondary md:w-auto md:gap-2.5 md:px-4 md:py-[5px]\">Follow<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Coming off a series loss in back-to-back weeks, it was fair to muse whether the Gators were essentially&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255317,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-255316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}