NCAA baseball’s postseason continued Friday with the Super Regionals, and one game featured a bizarre crucial play.
East Carolina was up 8–7 vs. Texas in the bottom of the eighth in Game 1 of its Greenville Super Regional when third baseman Alec Makarewicz hit a deep fly ball to left field. Longhorns outfielders Douglas Hodo III and Dylan Campbell converged on the ball, but it bounced off Hodo’s glove and into the stands for a leadoff home run.
That was Makarewicz’s second hit of the day, and it sparked a five-run inning for the Pirates on their way to a 13–7 win to begin their series.