{"id":324589,"date":"2026-06-05T20:24:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T20:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/324589\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T20:24:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T20:24:11","slug":"pleasant-grove-texas-wins-state-title-over-calallen-texas-with-walk-off-wild-pitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/324589\/","title":{"rendered":"Pleasant Grove (Texas.) wins state title over Calallen (Texas.) with walk-off wild pitch"},"content":{"rendered":"

Texerkana\u00a0Pleasant Grove<\/a>\u00a0(Texas.) pulled off an unlikely upset victory over Corpus Christi Calallen <\/a>(Texas.) to clinch the Texas 4A D1 state title. A rematch of last year\u2019s state title game, the eventual winners trailed 1-0 going into the seventh inning, before a series of unlikely events saw them clinch the title in thrilling fashion.<\/p>\n

Going into today\u2019s game, the losers of today\u2019s final were the No. 2-ranked team nationally according to Rivals High School Baseball Top 25 Rankings.<\/a> Despite that, Pleasant Grove, which was ranked outside the top 25, was able to overturn them against the odds.<\/p>\n

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Texas State<\/a> commit Collier Carroll almost took it the distance with 11 strikeouts, yet a series of errors by his team in the seventh inning led to Pleasant Grove\u2019s victory. After an RBI groundout tied the game at 1-1, a wild pitch gifted the Hawks a walk-off victory and the 4A state title.<\/p>\n

To make their victory even more shocking, Pleasant Grove also managed to snag the win while hitting just a single ball into the outfield. This was the sacrifice fly that tied the game at 1-1 before they won the game with a walk-off wild pitch.<\/p>\n

\u201cPLEASANT GROVE WINS THE STATE CHAMPIONSHIP ON A WALK-OFF WILD PITCH! After trailing 1-0 entering the bottom of the 7th, Walker Wright scores on a wild pitch to win it for the Hawks! A social media user shared <\/a>the moment that earned Pleasant Grove the state title.<\/p>\n

Walker Wright, who scored on the wild pitch to grant his team the victory, is a member of the class of 2026 who is currently uncommitted. Following this victory, the Hawks avenged the 2024 4A D1 state championship final, where they fell in a 3-5 defeat to today\u2019s opponents.<\/p>\n

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With Pleasant Grove\u2019s victory capping off the 2025 4A varsity season in stunning fashion, the varsity baseball season in Texas is not quite over yet. A slate of 5A and 6A state finals still to go, the formerly No. 1-ranked team in the nation,\u00a0Tomball\u00a0<\/a>(Texas.), headlines tomorrow\u2019s games. They take on Houston Memorial<\/a> (Texas) in the 6A D2 state final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texerkana\u00a0Pleasant Grove\u00a0(Texas.) pulled off an unlikely upset victory over Corpus Christi Calallen (Texas.) to clinch the Texas 4A…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324590,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[8356,116083,27,29,28,2426],"class_list":["post-324589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-pleasant-grove","tag-rivals-high-school-baseball","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-texas-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}