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Logan Maxwell hits 1st career grand slam to give Arkansas big lead in Game 2 against Tennessee
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Logan Maxwell might have just written his name into Arkansas baseball lore.
With 2 outs, a 1-2 count and the bases loaded in the top of the 4th inning on Sunday, the Razorbacks right fielder took a pitch the opposite way and sent it out of the ballpark. He also sent the crowd at the Fayetteville Regional into bedlam, with his 1st career grand slam giving Arkansas a commanding 7-1 lead as the Hogs tried to close out SEC rival Tennessee and advance to the College World Series.
The Volunteers, who were trying to force a deciding Game 3 on Monday after losing Game 1 on Saturday, 4-3, were 1 strike away from getting out of that 4th inning with minimal damage. A run had scored on a wild pitch to give Arkansas a 3-1 lead, but Tennessee would’ve taken that and moved forward. Instead, Vols pitcher AJ Russell threw the pitch that might have cost Tennessee a shot at Omaha and the pitch that possibly could send the Razorbacks there.
Here is the video of Maxwell’s grand moment:
There was still time for Tennessee to mount a comeback in hostile territory and force that deciding Game 3 on Monday in Fayetteville. But Maxwell’s 1 swing put those hopes in peril as the Vols were fighting upstream on Sunday.
Cory Nightingale, a former sportswriter and sports editor at the Miami Herald and Palm Beach Post, is a South Florida-based freelance writer who covers Alabama for SaturdayDownSouth.com.
