For the first time in their storied history, the superior Scotties have slugged their way to victory.
Last Sunday, the Tartans won their first baseball national championship in Stillwater, OK. Carnegie Mellon’s team defeated the Wooster Scots 4–0 in game 2 of the best-of-three final series at the NCAA Division III baseball tournament.
Breakout rookie Martin Matthews earned a single in the sixth inning but was tagged out trying to steal three bases.
Senior Will Watson scored not one, not two or three, but five runs with a highly rare, walk-off “mega” grand slam in the bottom of the ninth. Watson is the sixth athlete to hit a grand slam in a national baseball championship game and the first computer science major in Division III history to successfully make contact with a pitch. When reached for comment, Watson shared his future plans to enter “the draft” and “finally work up the courage to talk to that baddie who TAs my 150 recitation.”
Wooster’s seventh-year ace Josh Jameson pitched a no-hitter but walked nine — including three in the final inning. The pitching staff did not pull Jameson, citing low personnel, because who goes to Wooster, anyway?
After the game, Coach David Ross — no relation to the former Chicago Cubs catcher and manager — kept it short and sweet: “Thank God we won. I don’t got tenure yet.”
More exciting than the game was the camcorder-recorded brawl posted to Reddit two hours after the walk-off, between the red and yellow kilt-clad Carnegie Mellon and Wooster (respectively) Scottie Dog mascots. Dozens were hospitalized, and a winner was not conclusively determined. Comments online multiplied rapidly, including proclamations such as “Get real mascots,” “wish we saw this on the field lol,” and “THERE CAN ONLY BE ONE.”
This is Carnegie Mellon’s first national title in baseball since their founding in 1906.
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