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Pitcher No. 6 was done. One inning pitched, one hit, two earned runs, one strikeout, and five batters faced.

After Beck, Austin Bain entered and immediately gave up two runs, which owed to Beck, of course. Bain in fact had probably the best outing of the night for LSU since he forced only a single and recorded a strikeout. Never mind, though, since by the time he was sat down, the score was 13-1 Beavers, and there’s no coming back from that.

Pitcher No. 7 was done. 1/3 innings pitched, one hit, no earned runs, one strikeout, and two batters faced.

Finally, mercifully, Russell Reynolds came in to throw the ninth, and he quickly gave up a single to the shortstop, then that runner advanced to second on a throwing error. The next batter walked, then Nick Madrigal advanced to third on a pop fly. It seemed that Oregon State was building yet another threat, but Jack Anderson grounded into a double play and that was it for the top of the frame.

Worse still, Sherrod just couldn’t find his targets, and after walking another batsman to cross the Cardinals’ second runner of the frame, he got the ax, having thrown just 15 pitches. Just a miserable offering in a park that requires sound defense. Kaylor Chafin came in to mop up the final two outs, but A&M was by then very much on the ropes.

From there, the Cards crossed another run in the bottom of the eighth, but really the damage had been done. Louisville took it to advance to the winners bracket, 8-4.

In the evening session, Florida big whip Alex Faedo who was drafted by the Tigers in the first round of the MLB Draft on Monday needed just 10 pitches (seven strikes) to get himself out of the top of the first totally clean. The Gators backed that up with a sac-grounder to score one in the bottom of the frame and off to the second they went, 1-0 Florida.

The College World Series brings together the best eight teams in the nation for an egalitarian battle of double-elimination baseball that often pushes teams and rotations to their breaking points. No one will ever forget the 2016 CWS, when Coastal Carolina had to pitch a damn closer as a starter in the series’ final game just to eliminate pesky Arizona. Long live the Chanticleers.

And so Florida State and LSU met for an opening night date in Omaha for one of the most highly anticipated games of the tournament, what with LSU throwing and pitching lights-out baseball and FSU answering with lights-out throwing and pitching of its own. This game should go down in history as one of the best ever played at TD Ameritrade Park in Omaha. The Tigers’ D, in particular, carried them through to a dramatic, hard-fought victory.

The ACC is well-represented, though not by the likes of Clemson. Wake Forest and NC State both upended their higher-ranked opponents on Saturday, and each advanced into the undefeated lines of their respective brackets.

The story of the tournament’s early going, however, has to be the Davidson Wildcats. Stephen Curry’s alma mater has beaten both UNC and hard-hitting Florida Gulf Coast in consecutive outings, and this under-the-radar team has the feeling of last year’s upstarts, the Coastal Carolina Chanticleers. If your team is eliminated at any point of the tournament, Davidson is your new favorite team.

There are so many different ways the Astros can go, and while it’s unlikely that the Astros will start winning more games, or even maintain their current pace, they’ll have opportunities to improve their assembled talent and become even scarier.

A scarier Astros team isn’t anything the American League needs right now. But it’s probably coming. Just don’t think about how their keystone combination is still impossibly young and otherworldly and how they’ll be around for the better part of the decade, because that’s extra scary, too.

It was just a couple years ago that the thought of the 2017 Astros made the internet heckle a poor, defenseless magazine. Look at them now. They’re the best team in baseball, and they have a shot to get better.

Still, the Mets caused their own problems for the most part, so how bad should we really feel for them? Then again, the Cubs and Rizzo just preyed on the poor Padres, who are not only the least villainous, but also potentially not even an actual team that exists. On the other other hand, it’s not like the Cubs are the only team that ignores rules about slides and collisions.

It’s a tough situation, this villainy thing.

So, here’s your tiebreaker: Let’s not forget the early season issue where John Lackey and Chris Bosio both heavily implied Eric Thames was using performance-enhancing drugs because he hit dingers off Chicago pitching. That’s even more embarrassing today when you see how the Cubs’ rotation is doing even when it’s not facing Eric Thames.

In the article, we’re treated with the news that not only were the rules going to remain the same, but that Torre declined to bring the matter to the rules committee. It wasn’t that baseball deliberated about a new rule and then declined. It wasn’t even brought up. Total nonstarter.

Then the 2012 season came and went, and Posey won the MVP. His career wasn’t ruined. The urgency wasn’t the same. The momentum for a rule change had stalled.

In the 2013 American League Championship Series, though, Alex Avila was blown up at home plate and removed from the game. Here was a headline after that play:

SABERMETRICIAN: Well, when you pair his improved exit velocity with a slight change in swing path …
Justin Smoak was a perennial tease, a top-10 draft pick as a college first baseman, which is usually a recipe that leads to at least one All-Star appearance. He was a career .223 hitter who averaged 15 homers a year. In seven combined seasons, he was worth a total of 1.5 WAR. That is, he was a replacement-level first baseman, more or less. Just a guy.

He’s already doubled his career WAR this season, hitting .291/.353/.597. He’s hit 17 homers. If he went 0 for his next 100, his season line would look roughly like last season’s.

He’s not even the best example from the top half of the 2008 Draft, either. Yonder Alonso was the story of April, and he’s the story of May. He was the Justin Smoak of first basemen for years, hitting just enough to try again, never hitting enough to be excited about it. He’s nearly doubled his career high in home runs in just 156 at-bats, and it’s not like he’s doing it in Coors Field, either.