Tim Corbin reflects on the historic nature of this Tennessee team
By Keith Farner
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Tim Corbin once again had an up close and personal view of Tennessee’s baseball team on Thursday as Corbin’s Vanderbilt team suffered a 10-1 loss in the SEC Tournament in Hoover, Alabama.
“They have extreme confidence. They’re older,” Corbin said. “They don’t beat themselves and they have a great pitching staff that can beat you in a lot of ways. … They’re one of the better teams in my 20 years in this conference. Tony has done a great job with them.”
Tennessee scored double-digit runs for the 25th time this season and went for 6 runs in the first 3 innings.
The Vols scored 6 runs in the the third and fourth innings to extend their lead to 7-0. The Tennessee offense put up 5 runs on 5 hits in the third before they scored one in the fourth. Carter Young registered his seventh home run on the season with a solo shot to right center for Vanderbilt to make it a 7-1 contest.
That Vols offense showed off its power later in the game.
Blake Burke launched a pinch-hit fastball in the fifth over the opposite-field wall in left center. Then, Cortland Lawson smashed a middle-in fastball out of the confines of Hoover Met.
The 2 shots registered impressive numbers on the SEC’s Trackman data recording system. Burke’s homer traveled 406 feet and left the bat at 110 mph, while Lawson’s drive went 433 feet with a 103 mph exit velocity, the Vols noted.
H/T Ryan Schumpert.
A former newspaper veteran, Keith Farner is a news manager for Saturday Down South.
