It looked like yet another feel-good ending in the making for the University of Kentucky baseball team.
Starting pitcher Justin Lewis struck out the side in the top of the seventh inning, pumping his fist and shouting toward the hyped-up Kentucky dugout as he left the mound after preserving a 1-1 tie.
In the bottom of the seventh, Riley Mahan blasted a first-pitch home run to left-center field to give the Cats a 2-1 lead and put Lewis in line for the win.
But Georgia struck for five runs off UK closer Logan Salow in the eighth inning — culminating in Mitchell Webb’s grand slam — and the Bulldogs knocked off UK 6-3 at Cliff Hagan Stadium on Sunday, clinching the three-game series.