OMAHA, Neb. — Alabama baseball scored two runs on six hits in Monday’s loss to Texas at the College World Series, improving on its five-hit shutout loss to Oklahoma on Saturday, but it still wasn’t enough as the Longhorns eliminated the Crimson Tide, winning 14-2 at Charles Schwab Field.
Alabama head coach Rob Vaughn credited the two teams the Crimson Tide lost too in Omaha, saying Texas and Oklahoma executed better than his program on college baseball’s biggest stage.
“Yeah, I mean, it’s still a baseball game, right? The gaps are bigger. We kind of had a ball in the left center that we kind of got tied up on, that was kind of a little bit of a gut punch there. So gaps are bigger. And so I think — I’ve played here a thousand times. I probably 20 games in this field in the Big Ten Tournament and stuff. So nothing crazy from that perspective. I think it just boils down, when you have these teams, it’s not even about who’s better, it’s about who can execute in those moments, who can get it done in those moments. And it’s messy. It’s baseball. None of us coaches want to admit that…