Gage Wood just threw 119-pitch no-hitter with 19 Ks to keep Arkansas alive in the College World Series
If Arkansas ends up making a run to the College World Series finals, they’ll look back at Monday night as the moment it all flipped thanks to Gage Wood putting the entire state on his back and delivering one of the greatest pitching performances in NCAA history.
Arkansas needed four straight wins to reach Omaha. Gage Wood stepped onto the mound against a red-hot Murray State offense and went nuclear. Wood torched ’em over nine innings of no-hit baseball.
He struck out 19 batters and walked zero. That’s 28 batters faced, only one even reached base and that was via a hit-by-pitch in the eighth inning.
GAGE WOOD: 119 PITCH, 19 K, NO-HITTER
Murray State entered the game with one of the best bats in the tournament, having scored 10+ runs in three of their previous eight games and putting up 8 and 9 in two others.
None of that mattered.
Wood turned them into air traffic. Just swings and misses in all directions. If he wasn’t blowing them away, they were walking back to the dugout shaking their heads.
If the pure dominance from Wood wasn’t enough, this performance might’ve just saved Arkansas’ postseason hopes.
By going the distance, Wood preserved the Razorbacks’ bullpen which is obviously a massive boost when trying to claw your way out of the losers’ bracket in a format built to grind teams down.
Gage Wood’s comments postgame were even better.
Gage Wood: “I shouldn’t have hit that guy”
Hats off to Gage Wood. Arkansas needed a miracle, and the man delivered one.
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