At their current rate, the Florida Gators may very well not make the College World Series this year, not when they can’t figure out how to play .500 ball or prevent runs in SEC play.
But it doesn’t seem to matter at all how good these Gators are when they run into in-state rival Florida State — because all that matters when Florida and FSU meet on the diamond, right now, is that Florida is better.
Florida proved that by scoring more runs than FSU for the 11th consecutive time in 11 games in the storied series on Tuesday night, with Kirby McMullen’s two-run double in the top of the ninth in Tallahassee turning a 1-1 tie into a 3-1 game that Florida would close out to hand FSU’s legendary skipper Mike Martin — known popularly as No.