It was setting up to be a great story for West Virginia. You had a coach in his final season trusting his ace pitcher to carry them through all nine innings and get them one game away from their first run at the College World Series. Derek Clark had pitched eight full innings and went 133 pitches, something unheard of in this day and age of strict pitch counts and analytics trying to keep players from seeing one pitcher too many times. He had given up five runs, but the West Virginia offense had managed to get him a lead, and all he had to do was get three outs.
UNC Baseball walks off West Virginia in Super Regional opener
