As shadows overtook Alex Box Stadium in the waning hours of Sunday's daylight, LSU's Daniel Cabrera stood with bat in hand watching the baseball he had just majestically launched fast and far into the Baton Rouge sky.
As soon as bat hit ball, he knew.
"It was gone," Cabrera said.
The freshman held his bat steady in his right hand, casually switched it to his left and flipped it towards LSU's first-base side dugout as his teammates poured onto the field to celebrate his three-run walk-off home run.
Cabrera's shot over the fence in right-center capped an improbable six-run ninth inning for a 9-7 victory over Tennessee that completed a three-game SEC series sweep of the Vols.