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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.
On the special anniversary, the 14-year big league vet helped take us through the night from start to finish. Davis’ teammates, as well as Musselman, were quick to pass credit to the guard for making key free throws late and playing his role in one of Arkansas’ best defensive performances of the season. The Razorbacks limited the Aggies to 34% from the field and Allen to 3 of 10 on two-point attempts.
Thoughts from Hogs' pre-SEC basketball games
I'm just trusting that they trust me, and I'm just having fun." The Bulldogs are back in action this weekend with a three-game series against LSU at Jack Turner Stadium. Both teams were held scoreless in the sixth and seventh innings to send the game into extras. The Cubs would take the lead, 8-6, in the 10th inning, and Davis would get another big hit in the bottom half to cut the lead to one. But he was left on base as the tying run when the Cubs closed things out a batter later. "I remember the ball leaving my bat really fast," Davis recalled.
"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.
It's not the World Series, but Davis' home run feels just as big to the Mets
Senior Lacey Fincher also added two hits in the game. The pair combined for 50 percent of Georgia's eight hits. Five years ago, Davis -- a man with just 12 homers during the 2016 regular season and known more for his speed than power -- hit one of the most surprising game-tying home runs in playoff history. A Dave Stewart fastball, at the knees and nipping the outside corner. A bat held low, a flick of the wrists, a classic Eric Davis swing. A quick flight of the baseball to straightaway center.
He entered the matchup against New Mexico State averaging 14.2 points in those games, but none of his numbers jumped off box score in Arkansas’ second game in three days. The man who set the table for the feast did not get to dine as a champion. In the 1st inning of the decisive Game 4, Davis dove for a ball, lacerated a kidney and spent the next two weeks in an Oakland hospital. When Todd Benzinger squeezed a pop-up for the final out, Eric Davis was in intensive care, heavily sedated and floating in and out of consciousness.
Rajai Davis Home Runs
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.
That ended Chicago's 108-year World Series drought. The Indians -- again led by Davis, who represented the tying run following an RBI single -- fell short, but just barely. And with the bases loaded and two out in the eighth inning and Washington manager Dave Martinez going to his own closer, Sean Doolittle, to lock things down, it looked like 1-0 might turn out to be the final score. But there’s little doubt that whatever was said in that powwow on Monday, in which Callaway emerged still having a job, had a discernible effect on the way the team has gone about its business over the ensuing three days. The crack was meant as a joke and was received as such by the media corps in attendance.
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.
A Reds ballpark would never be so alive again. Reds fans have never been so happy since. A tradition begun in 1876, nurtured for decades and loved beyond measure in the Big 1970s rediscovered itself. All it took was Eric Davis, hitting a two-run homer and finding a sweet spot in time. Much of the play-by-play, game results, and transaction information both shown and used to create certain data sets was obtained free of charge from and is copyrighted by RetroSheet. "It's going to hurt. It hurts because we care, but they need to walk with their head held high," Indians manager Terry Francona said, "because they left nothing on the field. And that's all the things we ever ask them to do. They tried until there was nothing left."
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.
But in fact, it was also an indication of how important even relatively minor victories are to the Mets right now, and how vital those victories could be for Callaway’s future as the Mets manager. Begin your search for the perfect manufactured or modular home today. "Oh, he's seen the clip a lot of times," Davis laughed. Davis said a short prayer and made his way to the box. The plate appearance was a fairly long and very stressful one -- with four foul balls. As you might've guessed, fouling off tough pitches helped Davis become more comfortable in the box.
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.
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