OMAHA, Nebraska — They hadn’t lost in forever. It felt like that anyway, as these Michigan baseball Wolverines ripped their way through the first four games of the College World Series, after knocking off the NCAA tournament’s No. 1 seed just to get here.
And after Monday night, when U-M toppled Vanderbilt, the tournament’s most talented team, well, you could be forgiven in thinking the championship was theirs to take Tuesday night at TD Ameritrade Park.
Kumar Rocker or not.
Because even pitchers as filthy as him have off nights. You almost expected it the way U-M had been rolling.