After a pair of upsets on day one, chalk prevailed in dramatic fashion on day two of the 2019 College World Series. No. 2 overall seed Vanderbilt and No. 6 overall seed Mississippi State got some clutch, late-inning hits to advance to set up a rematch of their SEC Tournament pitchers’ three and half weeks ago.
Vanderbilt got a pair of home runs from sophomore third baseman Austin Martin, including a go-ahead two-run to break a 1-1 tie in the bottom of the seventh inning, to beat Louisville by a score of 3-1 on Sunday afternoon. Mississippi State had a harder road to the winner’s bracket as they fell into a 2-0 hole in the second inning and struggled to get anything going offensively against Auburn’s pitching staff until the bottom of the ninth when a costly two-out throwing error by the Tigers allowed the Bulldogs to tie the game and eventually win it on a walk-off RBI single by nine-hole hitter Marshall Gilbert.