Mac Nease Baseball Park at Russ Chandler Stadium, May 31st. Overcast, 70 degrees, 3,833 people in the seats. Georgia Tech is the #2 national seed hosting their own regional, and through three and a half innings they look every bit of it.
The scoreboard says 8-2, Yellow Jackets.
Drew Burress had homered in the first.
Alex Hernandez had homered in the third.
Georgia Tech's offense had touched four Oklahoma pitchers for eight runs on eight hits.
Then the bottom of the fourth started.
[ Russ Chandler Stadium · May 31, 2026 ]
Oklahoma celebrates at the handshake line after completing the 15-8 upset of #2 national seed Georgia Tech. The Sooners outscored the Yellow Jackets 13-0 from the fifth inning on.
Oklahoma scored eight runs in the fourth inning. Georgia Tech scored zero runs in the next five.
How eight became ten became fifteen.
Brendan Brock started it with a solo shot to deep right. Just a run, 8-3. A dent, not a collapse.
Then Dasan Harris got hit by a pitch. Dayton Tockey singled him to third. Georgia Tech went to the bullpen. Caden Gaudette in for Jackson Blakely. The first batter Gaudette faced, Kyle Branch, singled to center. Harris scored. 8-4. Jason Walk singled to left-center. Tockey scored. 8-5. Camden Johnson singled to load the bases.
Then Deiten Lachance turned on one and hit it to deep right field.
Branch scored.
Walk scored.
Johnson scored.
The scoreboard flipped. Oklahoma 9, Georgia Tech 8.
Cooper Underwood replaced Gaudette, who had faced four batters and retired none. Trey Gambill immediately homered to right. 10-8 Sooners. The inning ended there, but the damage was done: eight runs, seven hits, one of the ugliest half-innings a national seed has suffered all postseason.
The part that finished it.
The score is what people will remember. What I watched in real time was something different: two Oklahoma relievers walking out of the bullpen and making Georgia Tech completely disappear.
Gavyn Jones entered in the fourth, threw 37 pitches, allowed one hit, and walked off two innings later having not given up a run. LJ Mercurius came on in the sixth and finished it out. Four innings, one hit, zero runs, 59 pitches. The Sooners went from a team that had surrendered eight runs to a team that looked untouchable in the same afternoon.
Georgia Tech had eight hits in this game. Six of them came before the fourth inning ended. The Yellow Jackets sent 18 batters to the plate in innings five through nine and got two singles out of it. The crowd had been genuinely loud, a home regional atmosphere doing what a home regional atmosphere is supposed to do. It went quiet in stages. By the seventh it was a different building.
What the box score doesn't say.
The line says 15-8 Oklahoma. It doesn't say that Georgia Tech very much looked like the better team for about an hour. The Burress home run in the first, Hernandez going deep in the third, Ryan Zuckerman's two-RBI single in a five-run inning. This was a team that earned its national seed. They just ran into a 24-minute stretch that unraveled everything.
It also doesn't say that Oklahoma came back the next day and eliminated Georgia Tech again. Same team. Same result. The Sooners went through the #2 national seed twice in two days to advance, and both games the sequence was essentially identical: hang around early, find the seam, pour through it.
The handshake line you see in the video above was the first of two Tech had to endure. The second ended their season.
