Arkansas’ Gage Wooden put his identify in rarified air with the third no-hitter in Males’s Faculty World Sequence historical past and the primary in 65 years.
The hard-throwing Arkansas righty was dominant — and only a hit batter away from an ideal sport — within the Razorbacks’ 3-0 win to get rid of Cinderella Murray State in Omaha on Monday afternoon.
Wooden set the Faculty World Sequence file for strikeouts in a nine-inning sport with 19 and didn’t stroll a batter over 119 pitches.
He fanned Jonathan Hogart swinging to finish sport.
The one blemish was Wooden hitting Dom Decker on his again foot to guide off the eighth inning.
He then proceeded to strike out the subsequent three batters.
He additionally hit Nico Bermeo to begin the ninth, nevertheless it was become a strikeout when Arkansas received its problem and it was deemed Bermeo leaned into the pitch as a substitute of constructing an effort to get out of the best way.
“I shouldn’t have hit the guy,” Gage stated in his ESPN on-field interview when requested about his efficiency. “That’s it. That’s all I got to say.”
The opposite two no-hitters have been thrown by Texas’ Jim Ehrler in opposition to Tufts in 1950 and Jim Wisxon of Oklahoma State in opposition to North Carolina in 1960 earlier than Gage joined them on Tuesday.
Gage, a junior and projected first-round draft choose, went 3-1 with a 5.02 ERA in 9 appearances and 28.2 innings this season whereas posting 50 strikeouts.
Murray State was simply the fourth No. 4 seed to make it to the Faculty World Sequence since 1999, when the sector expanded.
Arkansas awaits the loser of tonight’s UCLA-LSU sport on Tuesday.
