Tanner Burns Makes Collegiate National Team 26-Man Roster

CARY, N.C. – Rising sophomore right-hander Tanner Burns has been named to the USA Baseball Collegiate National Team 26-man roster, head coach Paul Mainieri and USA Baseball announced Monday.

In two appearances with Team USA last week, the Decatur, Alabama, native logged 4.2 innings of work and allowed one run on three hits with one walks and five strikeouts.

Burns pitched 2.0 perfect innings with three strikeouts in his Collegiate National Team debut vs. the Coastal Plain League Select last Wednesday. He also helped close out a sweep of Chinese Taipei with 2.2 innings of work Monday. Burns entered the game and escaped a bases-loaded, one-out situation with a strikeout and groundout. He…