NASHVILLE: Meingasner homers, tie game

By Chris Lee - June 03, 2007

Vanderbilt's magical ride is alive for at least another inning. Matt Meingasner, who struck out last time, just lined a 3-1 pitch over the left field wall to tie the game, scoring Ryan Flaherty, who reached on a fielder's choice that erased Pedro Alvarez at second.

Rivals.com's national baseball writer Kendall Rogers wants credit for that; he had planned to cover a Super Regional next weekend, and said he'd put the reverse-jinx for Vandy this inning by checking into plane flights to Tempe for next weekend.

So Kendall, there's your shout-out. And speaking of shouting, you could cut the tension with a knife here until that at-bat, and the crowd's breathing a loud sigh of relief.

It's just unbelievable how many lives this Commodore team seems to have.

3-3, one out for Vandy in the bottom of the eighth as Michael Powers is on in relief.