Texas needed a win to force Game 3 vs. East Carolina in the Greenville Super Regional, and they barely survived with a 9-8 walk-off victory in nine innings.
The Pirates were up 7-2 at the seventh inning stretch, but the Longhorns stormed back with six unanswered runs in the bottom of the seventh and eighth innings to take an 8-7 lead.
Then came the dramatic ninth inning. First, East Carolina was down to their final out when Jacob Starling drilled a game-tying home run in the top of the inning.
But Texas’s desperation kept them alive.