The Michigan bench spills onto the field to celebrate Jesse Franklin's first inning solo shot home run, which turned out to be the game-winning hit.

2019 College World Series – Day Three In Pictures

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OMAHA — Okay, by show of hands, who here had a Big 10 team starting the College World Series 2-0 and within 27 outs of making the championship best-of-three series?

Go ahead, don’t be shy. Raise ‘em up. 

(SFX: Crickets chirping)

Yeah yeah, that’s what I thought. But I’m not being condescending here, I didn’t have them pegged for this 2-0 role either. How could you? They were one of the “last four in” to the Field of 64 to begin with. Egad. Usually that’s a ticket[…]