A little less than a month ago, there was really good reason to worry about the Florida Gators baseball team.
On April 8, Florida had just dropped a second consecutive one-run game in extra innings to SEC cellar-dweller Tennessee to seal a series loss to the Vols. Those two wins remain a third of Tennessee’s wins in SEC play, and are a quarter of the Vols’ road triumphs this season.
The next day brought a Sunday win that salvaged the series, avoiding a sweep at home, but Florida’s SEC record at that moment stood at 6-6, and even in a deep and brutal conference, it seemed unlikely that the Gators would be able to scratch together enough wins to compete for a title.