This is the first of a three-part series looking back at just how Virginia’s 2018 baseball season became an outlier after 14 straight years of postseason success.
Entering the 2018 baseball season, the Cavaliers had high hopes for how the season would play out. They came in ranked in the Top 25 by almost all of the relevant ranking polls, returned a lot of talent from an NCAA tournament run, and had an entering class ranked No. 17 overall by Perfect Game.
Then the lines got put on the field, the bases were set, the lights came on, and people with different uniforms started showing up.