It is a humbling sport. Not only can a good team beat you, but the field can beat you, the weather can damage your chances. Your offense can be supproted by solid pitching and defense but generate a big fat goose egg. Your pitching can be a premium asset or melt down like the ball has a homing device for opposition bats. It is the great leveler of games.
This evening it the Hokies sure got a dose of humility, after all of the justified celebrating and whooping it up about getting to the Super Regionals with three very impressive games, the great sine curve of baseball swelled up and grabbed them for a not so fun ride on the trouble wagon.