Sitting at 5-6 in ACC competition entering another three-game set, Miami essentially needed this series victory over Virginia to keep its hopes alive for at least a berth in the NCAA Regionals, let alone to have a chance to host for the first time since 2016.
The team, when hitting with an accompanied sense of plate discipline, remains one of the ACC’s better comeback teams thus far in 2021. Such late-game heroics have been witnessed in the later innings at Florida, NC State, and now Virginia, as Miami coach Gino DiMare and company rallied back from multi-run deficits in the opener and rubber game.