Texas (46-14)<\/a> plays another elimination game Tuesday against the loser of Monday night’s Oklahoma-Georgia game. The Crimson Tide (42-21) went two-and-out in their first CWS appearance since 1999.<\/p>\nThe triple initially was scored as a single and two-base error after the ball dropped between center fielder Bryce Fowler and left fielder Eric Hines and rolled to the warning track. Official scorer Shamus McKnight changed it to a triple a few innings later after further reviewing video.<\/p>\n
\u201cHad it not been changed by the end of the game, yeah, I certainly would have said something,\u201d Texas coach Jim Schlossnagle said. \u201cI thought that was a clean triple. But I\u2019m glad they made that change during the game.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rodriguez became the third player in CWS history to hit for the cycle and tied the CWS record for most RBIs and total bases in a game (12). The other players to hit for the cycle were Minnesota\u2019s Jerry Kindall, against Mississippi in 1956, and Tennessee\u2019s Christian Moore, against Florida State in 2024.<\/p>\n
\u201cRuger actually came up to me later in the game and told me that they took the error off the board,\u201d Rodriguez said. \u201cSo it was kind of surreal, because I remember C-Mo doing it with Tennessee when I was in high school. It\u2019s kind of crazy that that\u2019s all coming back when we\u2019re here. So it\u2019s just a crazy moment.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rodriguez’s performance was another highlight in his comeback from a troublesome injury that has twice cost him playing time and forced him to bat left-handed exclusively after having been a switch hitter. He suffered a fracture to his left hand when he was hit by a pitch against Missouri last season and missed seven games. He had surgery to insert a staple in the wrist last fall, but he had an allergic reaction and needed another surgery in April that sidelined him eight games.<\/p>\n
\u201cHappy for him considering all the things he\u2019s been through this year,\u201d Schlossnagle said.<\/p>\n
He entered the NCAA Tournament batting .277 with 31 RBIs, 11 doubles, two triples and three homers in 45 games.<\/p>\n
In seven NCAA Tournament games, he is batting .667 (18 of 27) with at least two hits each game, 16 RBIs, seven doubles, a triple and two homers.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think that guy is one of the big heartbeats of that team,\u201d Tide coach Rob Vaughn said. \u201cHe plays with a lot of energy. Obviously playing the biggest position on the field at shortstop. Kind of threw us for a loop.\u201d<\/p>\n
Riojas (6-2) allowed two runs and struck out seven in six innings. Texas is 5-0 in his last five starts. Alabama’s Zane Adams (8-5) was knocked out with two outs in the second inning. He gave up seven runs on seven hits and three walks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OMAHA, Neb. \u2014 Adrian Rodriguez hit for the cycle and drove in seven runs, Ruger Riojas pitched six…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337696,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[100052,96493,27,29,28,88145,111553],"class_list":["post-337695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-high-school-sports-baseball","tag-sports-college-sports","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-tp-colleges","tag-tp-flower-mound-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337695","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=337695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}