LIVE: Georgia Tech ends seven game losing streak on walkoff home run

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The Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets and Virginia Cavaliers would head into their last game of their weekend series with the Cavaliers looking for a sweep, while the Yellow Jackets were looking to end a seven game losing streak. The Cavaliers would build a 4-3 lead heading into the seventh inning.

Yellow Jackets pitcher Caden Spivey would walk his first batter of the inning, and it got worse after that, as he would give up a home run to Aiden Teel to give the Cavaliers a 6-4 lead. Spivey would retire the next three batters to get through the inning.

Alex Markus would come in to pitch for the Cavaliers for relief, and would allow a home run on his first batter faced, as Yellow Jackets brought in pinch hitter Will Baker hit a moonshot. Markus would retire the next three batters faced, striking out two. The Cavaliers would enter the eighth inning up 6-4.

A walk by Spivey to start the top of the eighth would give the Cavaliers a baserunner with zero outs in the inning. After the walk, the Yellow Jackets would bring in pitcher Mason Patel. Patel would get the next two batters out, and catcher Vahn Lackey would catch a Cavaliers player stealing at second base to retire the side.

Evan Blanco would start the eighth inning for the Cavaliers. Caleb Daniel would get a lead off single to start the inning, and a Carson Kerce walk would put runners on first and second base with one out. A strikeout by Schmidt and a popout by Shouse would retire the side.

Patel would retire all three batters that he faced in the top of the ninth inning to put the Yellow Jackets within striking distance in the bottom of the ninth.

Will Baker would hit a groundout for the first out of the inning, but Lodise would hit a single up the middle, and Burress would then hit a two-run game tying home run with one out in the inning. The inning would end on a double play strikeout, followed by a called interference on a steal attempt by Parker Brosius.

Patel would stay in for the Yellow Jackets in the tenth inning, allowing a hit to his first batter faced. Lackey would then catch two players stealing and throw him out at second base.

In the bottom of the tenth inning, Carson Kerce would try to extend a single to a double, resulting in Kerce being tagged out at second base for the second out of the inning. Kent Schmidt would hit a walk off solo home run to give the Yellow Jackets a 7-6 victory.

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