Through 6 ½ innings, the No. 14 Gators were in an excellent position to win Saturday’s finale against No. 23 Georgia and salvage the series.
They had scored five runs in the top of the fifth to take a 6-2 lead, and they still held a 6-3 advantage going into the bottom of the seventh after freshman lefty Philip Abner pitched a clean sixth inning.
Then, the dumpster fire that is the Florida bullpen imploded again. The Bulldogs scored eight runs in the seventh inning off of Abner and Tyler Nesbitt to take an 11-6 lead.
BT Riopelle cut the deficit back down to three with a two-run homer in the top of the eighth, but Georgia added three more runs off of Karl Hartman in the bottom of the inning to turn this into a blowout.