The Tennessee Vols managed to finally get the bats going up in Lexington on Sunday. After managing just two runs in each of their lopsided losses to start the series, the offense showed up in a big way in the series finale.
Levi Clark knocked in five runs and slugged two home runs, including a three-run shot in the top of the ninth for the winning margin.
And thanks to a bullpen that is currently a mess, they’d need every single one of those runs. Despite leading 7-1 in the bottom of the seventh, Tennessee found themselves in a dogfight by the end. The Vols’ bullpen allowed eight runs in the final three innings of the win, and Josh Elander acknowledged, despite the wild win and the offensive outburst, that the bullpen needs to be better moving forward.
Josh Elander mentions bullpen needing to be better after Vols’ 10-9 win over Kentucky
“Just a wild game all the way around, but great job by our offense. Bunch of punches being thrown back and forth. You don’t really draw it up where you give up eight runs in the last three innings and still find a way to get out…