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The latest highlight on a growing postseason reel helped the Razorbacks punch their ticket to next week’s Sweet 16 in San Francisco against No. 1 overall seed Gonzaga. Just like that, Eric the Red knee-capped the swag. The Reds won 7-0 behind the pitching of Jose Rijo and the Nasty Boys.
Many historical player head shots courtesy of David Davis. All images are property the copyright holder and are displayed here for informational purposes only. With a runner on first and two outs, Cubs manager Joe Maddon handed the ball to Chapman, who promptly allowed a run-scoring double to Brandon Guyer to narrow Chicago's lead to 6-4. That's when Davis, he of just five hits in his first 38 postseason at-bats, ripped a 98-mph fastball over the left-field wall, sending his dugout and the crowd into a frenzy with the latest-occurring game-tying home run in a World Series Game 7. During batting practice, the Oakland hitters played homerun derby and generally clowned around. Many years later, their manager Tony La Russa said he knew his team was in trouble when he saw his players playing longball in BP.
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Even though Chapman had a nasty slider, Davis was looking fastball. He had struck out on three straight fastballs against Chapman earlier in the Series. And, this time, he was hoping to get out in front and drive a ball -- all those foul-offs helped with that. And then, as Davis was wont to say during his playing career, "Boom." "I was feeling very confident," former Indians outfielder Rajai Davis told me over a recent phone call. "Confident. Beyond confident. It was just a confidence that's hard to explain."
"It was at a trajectory where I wasn't sure if it was gonna get over the high wall. I knew I had hit it flush. I knew I had squared it up. I knew I had hit it really, really good. But in the back of my mind, I was like, 'Is that gonna get over?' Coming into that game, I only had two home runs hit at home." "I got more confident as the at-bat went on," Davis said. "I really felt like I was on his fastball. There was one pitch where he threw me down and in, and I barely fouled it off, and I was like, 'Ohhh.' He just snuck that one, he almost got that one by me." From an offensive perspective, Saturday did not turn out the way of Davis' previous NCAA Tournament performances.
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The Razorbacks needed to land one more punch in the second half Saturday night, and Davis — as he has done for them many times the last two seasons — came through in a big way during Arkansas’ victory over No. 12 seed New Mexico State at KeyBank Center. Davis expected that first-pitch, hittable fastball the way a 5-year-old expects toys at Christmas. Flash forward to the hours just before Game 1 of the ’90 Series. They’d been in the previous two Series, losing to the Dodgers in ’88 then sweeping the Giants in the infamous earthquake Series the following year. In 1990, Oakland won 103 times, most in baseball, then swept Boston in the AL Championship Series.
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He didn’t know the Reds had won the Series until two days later. Reds fans, all 55,830 of them, let loose. “You would think they just won the World Series,’’ Buck noted, finally. Billy Hatcher and Davis were greeted with casual high-fives. It could easily have been a Tuesday night in May.
Another solo homer in the top of the fifth put the Spartans back in front, 3-2. It's hard for Davis to remember specific teammate reactions afterwards amidst all the chaos, but some pitchers who were in the dugout told him they jumped so high that they hit their heads on the ceiling. Still, even in a loss, Davis' moment is one of the more shocking highlights of all time. It was the one and only dinger he ever hit in the postseason.
The North Side of Chicago was minutes from pure pandemonium. Surely, the baseball gods wouldn't allow them to let this one slip away. Scottie Bordelon is a reporter for WholeHogSports.com. A graduate of the University of Arkansas, Bordelon previously covered high school sports for the Times Record in Fort Smith and the Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette in Springdale. Basketball Writers Association and Football Writers Association of America and voter for the Biletnikoff Award. “Devo might not have had a good offensive game, but I feel like he did a good job on defense.
Stewart’s next four offerings were off the plate. Over the course of a 162-game series, a three-game winning streak is pretty small potatoes. But with Jacob deGrom on the mound, there was Tomas Nido behind the plate again, and why not? In five starts with regular catcher Wilson Ramos, deGrom had pitched to a 5.33 ERA.
In his three starts throwing to Nido, deGrom had allowed just one run in 21 innings. Rogers retired Upstate in order in the top of the eighth. A leadoff single and back-to-back fielder's choice put a runner on first with two out. Davis lifted a high fly ball to center that went out for her second home run, walking off the Spartans, 5-3. On Nov. 2, 2016, the team that hadn't won a World Series in 108 years was up 6-4 with two outs in the bottom of the eighth inning of Game 7. They had the unhittable, fireballing closer Aroldis Chapman on the mound.
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Musselman said that Toney’s dunk following Davis’ feed was “the perfect exclamation point” to the team’s run and something of a reward for Toney's efforts defending Allen. After Arkansas forward Jaylin Williams deflected a post-entry pass by New Mexico State guard Teddy Allen, Davis, with a lightning quick right hand, tapped the basketball to himself from between two Aggies and took off running. Roughly 10 feet from the halfcourt line, Davis made more magic happen. And it led to the sequence of the night for the Razorbacks, who are moving on to the second weekend of the NCAA Tournament for the second consecutive season.
