OMAHA — Georgia’s bullpen turned in a second straight dominating performance at the College World Series, this time allowing Stanford one single and four other baserunners in six scoreless innings in Monday’s 4-3 victory over the Cardinal (40-23-2).
Matt Cerione produced the winning run with his two-out, bases-loaded single in the seventh inning.
“When you stop a team like that and you give us a chance to get our offense going, we have enough weapons in our lineup that we’re eventually going to break through and score,” Georgia coach David Perno said.
The Bulldogs (43-23-1) took control of Bracket 1 and will wait until Friday to play the winner of Wednesday’s Miami-Stanford game.
Miami 7, Florida State 5
Two days after the Miami closer’s two-run throwing error cost the Hurricanes a win in their CWS opener, Carlos Gutierrez overcame a shaky ninth inning to seal a victory over Florida State.
“I tell you, my heart can’t take many games like that right there,” Miami coach Jim Morris said. “You don’t feel safe with a five-run lead going into the ninth inning.”
The Hurricanes (53-10) have not gone two-and-out in 20 CWS appearances since 1979. FSU (54-14) leaves Omaha after two games for the fourth time in 13 appearances under coach Mike Martin.
The Seminoles had 18 hits — four by national player of the year Buster Posey — but left 17 runners on base to set a CWS record for a nine-inning game.
