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It's hard to believe one of these teams is going to be going home, Courtney. Two of the best offenses, two of the best senior classes in the country, but it is indeed elimination Friday for UCLA and Arkansas at the World Series. Pitch for Arkansas against Nebraska. And Slim shoots one to short. A short hop pick by Italy. And a quick first out for Bam. And Grant with his shallow fly ball to left center. tracked down by the shortstop. Rejo Grant has homerred. He's also popped out to short the other three times. Brinley Bane and right and a ground ball to short. A busy inning for Rejo and a seven pitch inning for Payton Bham against these three all-Americans.
Arkansas to the bats next season. Johnson down swinging and a good start for Taylor Tinsley. went to the harder stuff instead and a fly ball to left. Riley Slimp has the second out. McDow on the left side and a line drive caught by Garcia at short. Perfect first innings for Bam and Tinsley. Fight together because that's what Razerbacks do. and Kev. Let's see. Here's a deep drive to center and Alita Garcia has just put a jolt into those Razer backs. A first pitch swing for the red shirt freshman Garcia.
Home run number 204 for UCLA and the Bruins strike first on Friday night. The long ball. Alina Garcia getting a pitch early in the count. The first pitch that she sees on time with it, gets all of it. There's so much. We talk about her shortstop, but to have a glove like she has and to swing the bat like she has swung it in her red shirt freshman year. She is going, By the way, they're hitting so many home runs. They gave one more. It's only a mere 203 right now for UCLA as this ball is grounded to third by Brie Alejandre for the out. 22 home runs for Garcia, the fourth Bruin with 22 or more. Lego by Lego trying to make it as big as they can.
Well, Kaya Bragg, who left yesterday's game briefly with a right lower leg injury, just got hit in the left leg. So, maybe that'll even it out as Bragg walks slowly down to first on a Payton Burnham hit by pitch behind her. A lot of ground balls, a lot of weak fly balls off the bat against her. Usually smoke to left. THAT BALL IS RIGHT INSIDE THE LINE AND FAIR for Ramirez. Played well by Woff in the corner. Brag can only advance a base. It's first and second. One out. Buried to left field. Got her barrel TO IT. GOT IT OVER THE WALL.
A SWEET SWING for a three-run shot the opposite way. Sujin Barry and UCLA are rolling IN THE SECOND. GETTING OFF BURNHAM. And there is just a different look in these hitters eyes today when they're crossing home plate when they are locked into pitches and on time like this. They are not getting fooled right now by anything in this second inning. After a three up, three down first inning by Burnham against Grant and Wolverry mixed in there. UCLA is showing up and sw putting up home runs consistently. It's hard to outpace them because of how strong their offense has been this year. Truly the best offense that we've ever seen is by this UCLA team. A walk out of the nine spot for Lamar. And another
home run ball deliveries on the way. Ball four in the dirt. Two on, one out. And Megan Grant coming up as we go down to Alyssa. Sitting down, jotting, doodling, doing whatever she does. Grant fly ball center field. 42 is in the bleachers. Jordan Willery waiting for her as are the REST OF THESE MAD BOMBING BRUINS. And it's a second inning runaway. Bench fired up after she extends the alltime record. That is a pretty good pitcher pitch. It's a half ball on the plate and still Megan Grant. You could tell what the intensity after the home run was the intensity that she brought up to the plate with her getting her best swing off. watching SEC pitch of the year held him to three
ball for Willery. Alina Garcia who started this inning with a homer is going to bat to compete and that get ready to compete part you are seen in full-fledged fashion here tonight. Here's a pop up to second. Garcia, who has homered in this inning, pops out. And finally, they've had a couple this inning, but and they're going to have another. Five free passes in the inning. Four walks and a hit batter. And it'll be Kayiah Bragg, the third Bruin to bat. Two-2 for Bragg.
It will to right field and off the top of the wall. That ball is ruled in play. The lights are going off though and two-run score. Lisa Fernandez is twirling her fingers to say home run. None of the umpires have ruled as such. You can understand the lighting folks here might have gotten a little trigger happy. They've been doing it all inning. And now the umpires try to sort this out. And it's nine nothing at the moment on the field as the UCLA hit a double. They're challenging that ruling. The play is under review. And then hit the fence behind it. Let's see.
Looks like it just hit the wall. To me, it looks like it just hit the wall. Well, let's go to rules analyst Christy Cornwall. Christy, what are you seeing here? So, what they're going to be looking for is whether or not it hit something beyond the plane of the fence and then came back into play. What I'm seeing is that it hit the top of the cushion and ricocheted off. The call on the field is confirmed. UCLA has one challenge remaining in the game. All right, there's the word for Chelsea Clark. We thank Christie for that. has now scored a run in this inning.
Isn't that something? All nine have reached safely. All nine have scored. Toward the middle. Big hit. Ramirez. Bragg will come around third and decide to think better of it. Strike three. Mercifully for Arkansas. The Bruin monsoon of the second inning ends. Limited pitching staff. Anything feels possible for UCLA. Bragg will retire the cleanup hitter, Tiana Bell. Well, it makes you think about how important a run roll and Taylor Tinsley throwing fewer innings is. I even wondered, is she going to come back this season?
She's down looking here. And a second strike out for Taylor Tinsley. 3-1. That's ball four as we go down to Alyssa. Yeah, you can tell how much Taylor Tinsley means to this UCLA team, guys. carrying this down. Ground ball through the box. There's a base hit. Rejo has the first Arkansas knock. 3-2 here. Davidson and Reho will be off and running with a pitch, which is taken for ball four. So, three straight two out base runners for Arkansas. High fly to shallow left center for Miller and that's caught. I was going to say Cal Baptist had a 10-r run inning against UCLA in region did not make it here.
Swinging a miss. Heron backto back Ks as she gets Lamar to start in third. UCLA was just so on time with that. You know, keep throwing that changer. That's why she threw multiple in a row. on the ground to second. Finally, a ball put in play and Grant is retired by Carly Davidson. Not seen in our sport as well. Only one player has had more home run, excuse me, more RBI's. Barely hit by a pitch there. And you're robbing him. And that routine ends with another walk. Base is loaded to now in the dirt. Skips away from Miller.
Here comes Slip to the plate. It's 10 nothing Bruins. Haron has not had command in this inning. Skipping pitch after pitch off the Oklahoma dirt. And this wild one adds to the UCLA lead. Swing and a miss. She gets control of the change up. One pitch later, another run for UCLA. It's got to be a pretty special thing for you to see those four aces potentially in the circle tomorrow. And the winners of those games as Johnson flies out will be just one win away from the championship series, a national title. To Taylor Tinsley to Brinley Bane.
Tinsley bobbles his ground ball, recovers in time for the out in the regional just seem to wake up their offense in a big way. Ella McDow the short Taylor Tinsley a perfect third inning at this point in the game with the three Arkansas pitchers who have thrown. It feels like we're closer to 900 right now. Aaron gets her fourth strike out. Lefty Ramirez two for two high into shallow center. Regan Johnson's there for out number two. And I remember very down swinging. Haron starting to figure it out a little bit. Most
consistent programs in the nation and it was a matter of time before Arkansas was going to get here. Tiana Bell down to third. That is a fair ball. And Bell will lead off the fourth with a base hit off Taylor Tinsley season. Kennedy to the right side. Bragg will flip over to first and bal into second. That's good to see. DJ Gasso was lingering in the background there. Reunited. They were together at Utah freshman year, made it to the World Series together. and years. But Courtney Dold gives a lot of credit to her coaching staff to get this Arkansas program to where they are. Hot shot to short. Garcia robs Rio. It's all working for UCLA 2003.
This ball smacked to right by Lamar near the pole into the roadhouse. Extra loaded nachos as Jolina Lamar goes the other way. The fourth UCLA home run of the night. It's 11 zip. And mom Marissa Young, the head coach of the Duke Blue Devils, loving every minute of it. The World Series for the first time. But opposite field power for Lam for Lamar out of the nine hole. And when we say that UCLA can hit one through nine and drop bombs one through nine, that's not just a cliche. We mean it. This is home run number 14 for Lamar out of the nine hole. And it went to right field, too. So, Riley Slim strikes out. Megan cooking.
I would say she's been cooking all season long and it just stuck. Cooking, sautéing, Alyssa grilling. Nothing. Only Lisa Fernandez and the team will know. Draw ball to short. Rejoy out of first. Get the grip. Robin Heron exposes her hand. Garcia to short. And Arkansas needs four runs before three outs. You on this elimination Friday night. Tinsley to Kayie Woff who slaps one through the left side and the Razerbacks get the lead off runner on in the fifth. Well, I have a feeling that Arkansas is not going to make this easy on Taylor Tinsley.
Down to third. There's one on the first. The new second baseman, Mia Phillips. And a call is safe by Robbie Guest. UCLA challenging the safe call at first base. That play is under review. Real Alejandre to Phillips. 54 for the first out. And they did not get the second. Really close. That's a great live call by our for Space Empire Robbie Guest to get that one right live cuz that was bang. There's how it looked from Robbiey's vantage point. Yeah. To review the call on the field is confirmed. The runner is safe. UCLA has zero challenges remaining in the game.
Spe a lot of look to goes through my mind. Something my dad put in my head since I was little. Take the pitcher's head off. Down to first. Willery and Arkansas's got an out left in its season. Seven straight years of the Scott family. Bane into shallow center field and Garcia makes the catch to win a UCLA run. A Bruin route in this elimination game. The largest shutout win in 152 games for UCLA.
