From Austin to Omaha, college fans around the country now know Blake Peterson.<\/p>\n
“This is pretty neat,” the play-by-play announcer\u00a0said. “This kid grew up a die-hard Texas fan.”<\/p>\n
He didn’t reach base but Peterson did drive in his first career run with a hard-hit sinking line drive to first base.\u00a0ESPN’s broadcast team pointed out that the redshirt sophomore had yet to drive in a run during his two seasons with the team.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“Blake Peterson was oh-so-close, but he does pick up his first career RBI,” the broadcast said.<\/p>\n
The former Chaparral was a three-year letter-winner and helped Westlake qualify for the postseason after a 14-year drought. He had a .463 average with 30 RBIs as a senior.<\/p>\n
He did not appear in any games for Texas his freshman year in 2024 and redshirted in 2025. As a sophomore, leading up to his appearance in Omaha, he batted just four times\u00a0and had one run against Holy Cross in the Austin Regional.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From Austin to Omaha, college fans around the country now know Blake Peterson. “This is pretty neat,” the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337556,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,67002,119788,537,20340,10687],"class_list":["post-337555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-college-world-series","tag-men-s-college-world-series","tag-texas-longhorns","tag-texas-longhorns-baseball","tag-westlake-chaparrals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337555","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=337555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}