Last Updated 9:45 AM, June 24, 2024
Tennessee vs. Texas A&M : 2024 Men's College World Series Finals Game 2 highlights
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1:01 pm, June 24, 2024
MCWS Game 3️⃣ | The Grand Finale
This is it, for all the marbles. Tonight's game between Texas A&M and top-seeded Tennessee will determine the 2024 Men's College World Series national champion. The series is tied 1-1 after the Aggies dominated Game 1 with a 9-5 victory and the Vols secured a 4-1 win with a late rally in Game 2. Each team is within reaching distance to claim their program's first-ever national title.
Here's how to keep up with tonight's grand finale:
- MCWS Final Game 3:
- ⏰ 7p.m.
- 📺 ESPN
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9:44 pm, June 23, 2024
🙂↕️ Vols force Game 3
Tennessee held on to its 4-1 lead to force a winner-take-all MCWS Finals Game 3 tomorrow. Two 2-RBI homers in the seventh and eighth innings gave Tennessee the advantage as the Vols held the Aggies scoreless afterJace LaViolette's first-inning homer. Though the Aggies put two runners on in the bottom of the ninth, they were unable to finish the job against Tennessee closer Nate Snead, flying out twice to end the game.
This marks Texas A&M's first loss in the 2024 NCAA tournament — the last time the Aggies had lost a game this season was to Tennessee in the SEC tournament (7-4).
The Aggies and top-seeded Volunteers will face each other once more in Game 3 — the winner will be crowned the 2024 national champion. Tune in tomorrow at 7 p.m. ET on ESPN.
9:05 pm, June 23, 2024
Vols add ✌️
Batting ninth, Cal Stark slammed his first homer at the Men's College World Series with one up and two out. His two-RBI dinger adds security to Tennessee's lead, 4-1, as the Vols continue to fight off elimination in the eighth.
— Tennessee Baseball (@Vol_Baseball) June 23, 2024STARK INDUSTRIES 🚀
BANG!
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8:53 pm, June 23, 2024
😏 Tennessee takes the lead
The Volunteers struck big in the seventh. After Christian Moore walked and stole second, Dylan Dreiling sent a ball over the right field wall to plate two. Tennessee leads in the top of the 8th, 2-1.
— Tennessee Baseball (@Vol_Baseball) June 23, 2024They don't make 'em any more CLUTCH than DYLAN DREILING!
LET'S GOOOO!
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7:39 pm, June 23, 2024
⚔️ Pitching duel thru 4
Texas A&M escapes bases loaded for the second time before Tennessee's Drew Beam kept it at 1-0 entering the fifth inning.
GOT HIM IN TIME #GigEm x #MCWS pic.twitter.com/caLCBkg6oQ
— Texas A&M Baseball (@AggieBaseball) June 23, 2024
6:59 pm, June 23, 2024
🔥 Drew Beam strikes out the side
After Texas A&M escapes abases-loaded jam, Tennessee pitcher Drew Beam responds by striking out the side. Beam has sat down five straight Aggies heading into the third.
— Tennessee Baseball (@Vol_Baseball) June 23, 2024Drew Ks the side in in the second and has struck out five in a row!
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6:30 pm, June 23, 2024
☄️ Aggies strike first
Jace LaViolette hits 415-foot solo blast to give Texas A&M a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the first.
AGS STRIKE FIRST 💣#GigEm x @JaceLaViolette2 x #MCWS pic.twitter.com/eaDkHztQJP
— Texas A&M Baseball (@AggieBaseball) June 23, 2024
5:53 pm, June 23, 2024
MCWS Finals Game 2️⃣ Lineups
Here are the lineups for Game 2 between Texas A&M and Tennessee. The Aggies won 9-5 last night and will look to close out the series today. Tennessee is looking to force a winner-take-all Game 3 tomorrow.
3:36 am, June 23, 2024
💪 Texas A&M takes Game 1
Despite Tennessee's effort to gain runs back in the final innings, Texas A&M's massive third inning and lockdown defense sealed its Game 1 win, 9-5. The Aggies set the tone with a leadoff homer from Gavin Grahovac and didn't let off the gas in the third, plating five with Kaeden Kent's two-RBI single as the exclamation point. The Aggies did not err once defensively as the Vols racked up three errors, one resulting in an A&M RBI. Evan Aschenbeck secured the win, pitching 2.2 innings while striking out seven and allowing two hits and no walks.
The teams face off in Game 2 of the MCWS finals at 2 p.m. ET Sunday on ABC.
2:53 am, June 23, 2024
👀 Vols swat back-to-back homers
Tennessee got three runs back with consecutive homers in the seventh inning. Batting fourth and fifth in the order,Dylan Dreiling and Hunter Ensley sent balls out of the park to keep Tennessee in the game, 9-5 ⤵️
— Tennessee Baseball (@Vol_Baseball) June 23, 2024Dylan dials long distance to get two runs back.
Pitching change coming for the Aggies.
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2:36 am, June 23, 2024
☄️ Kaeden Kent sends one out
Kaeden Kent's two-run homer to right puts the Aggies up 9-2 in the top of the seventh.
THE LEGEND OF KAEDEN KENT CONTINUES!! 💥#GigEm x #MCWS pic.twitter.com/4qiWnOMy3r
— Texas A&M Baseball (@AggieBaseball) June 23, 2024
1:16 am, June 23, 2024
🔥 Kavares Tears diving catch
Kavares Tears laid out on the warning track to rob this A&M homer ⤵️
.@kavares_tears23 MAKES THE PLAY!!! 🫨#MCWS x 🎥 ESPN / @Vol_Baseball pic.twitter.com/CNHaIs5b9K
— NCAA Baseball (@NCAABaseball) June 23, 2024
The Vols also added an RBI single in the third as they trail 7-2 in the fourth inning.
12:50 am, June 23, 2024
🫧 5-run inning for Texas A&M
Fans showered the stands in bubbles in the third inning of Game 1, as Texas A&M plated five to go up 7-1. Hayden Schott opened up scoring with two on, swatting a single to score Jace LaViolette. Another RBI single from Caden Sorrell brought the Aggies up again before a Tennessee throwing error brought Ted Burton home.
To round out the inning, Kaeden Kent singled up the middle to score two more ⤵️
Stay 🔥🔥🔥 3⃣#GigEm x #MCWS pic.twitter.com/uzVOFfm2BY
— Texas A&M Baseball (@AggieBaseball) June 23, 2024
12:33 am, June 23, 2024
🤜 Tennessee punches one in
A Dean Curley single scoredDylan Dreiling from third, putting the Vols on the board, 2-1.
The Vols are on the board #MCWS x 🎥 ESPN / @Vol_Baseball pic.twitter.com/QU2Ua4WtIX
— NCAA Baseball (@NCAABaseball) June 23, 2024
12:11 am, June 23, 2024
➕ Aggies add a run
With runners in the corners, Caden Sorrell singled down the middle to plate one more, as Texas A&M leads 2-0 going into the second.