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Texas College World Series Memories: Chance Wheeless Walk-off

by Wescott Eberts (GoBR) on Jun 16, 2011 7:21 PM CDT in Texas Longhorns Baseball

Part of what defines the greatness of Augie Garrido -- besides the colorful rampages, besides the Zen, besides the victories, the championships -- is his ability to look his players in the eye and see greatness ready to emerge. He did it with Austin Wood in the Regional in 2009, letting him keep the ball past the point anyone thought it particularly prudent besides Wood and the coaching. He did it with Chance Wheeless in 2005, letting him bat with an injured shoulder. Any coach playing it by the book would have pulled the clearly injured Wheeless for a pinch-hitter after some poor swings earlier in the day. But when Wheeless told Garrido that he could get it done, the legendary Texas coach believed him. And this is what happened:

The rest, as they say, is history. Hint: it ended in a dogpile.

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Awesome

That was a LOADED team. I’m still amazed we weren’t a national seed that year. I also miss Harold Reynolds at the CWS.

by ValleyHorn on Jun 16, 2011 8:22 PM CDT via mobile reply actions

I had forgotten about Reynolds

He was very solid. Looking it up, it appears the guy was railroaded by ESPN, which is reason #126 why I hate that fucking network.

Craig James is still near the top.

This is like O. Henry and Alanis Morrisette had a baby, and named it "This Exact Situation."

by burntorangehorn on Jun 16, 2011 10:30 PM CDT up reply actions

Reynolds could out color commentate Nomar with duct tape over his mouth.

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by TXStampede on Jun 17, 2011 7:20 AM CDT up reply actions 2 recs

Yeah but at least he's married to Mia Hamm.

That’s gotta count for something, huh?

by robthecob on Jun 17, 2011 5:45 PM CDT up reply actions

harold reynolds has all the luck

This is like O. Henry and Alanis Morrisette had a baby, and named it "This Exact Situation."

by burntorangehorn on Jun 17, 2011 8:04 PM CDT up reply actions

Another Zen moment

Was when he put Carmicheal in the ’02 Champ game vs SC. He goes yard and it also ended in a dogpile! Majewski was a stud on that team too!

by ValleyHorn on Jun 16, 2011 8:29 PM CDT via mobile reply actions

There's just no sweeter sound than that ping.

Ain’t college ball great?!

by GoHorns on Jun 17, 2011 12:27 AM CDT reply actions

I had a weird walk-off premonition the other day...

that this was going to happen again for the good guys. I hope the boys are as ready as I am!

We're going to play like we're in a bad mood.

by JoeT63 on Jun 17, 2011 8:41 AM CDT reply actions

I had almost forgotten how beautiful that was.

There is not a situation or individual that cannot be improved by the addition of chocolate.

by OnMySignal on Jun 17, 2011 9:17 AM CDT reply actions

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