Texas A&M baseball has not had the season that fans envisioned thus far. The Aggies began the year at number one in the nation, and have since plummeted far out of the polls.
That's mostly thanks to an offense that, while expected to be stellar coming into the year, has been anything but. There have been an inordinate amount of injuries, to be sure, but that doesn't change the fact that things have been far worse than they should have been, even with a reduced lineup, in that respect.
The Aggies bore only one SEC win to their name coming into this weekend's series against the Tennessee Volunteers in Knoxville. Given that their opponents from last year's College World Series were the top-ranked team in the nation— and given that the Aggies were no-hit and run-ruled in the first game of the series— it looked like a sweep was incoming for Big Orange... until today.
Texas A&M baseball wins two on Saturday, run-ruling Tennessee in rubber match to take first SEC series of 2025
For the first time this season, this Texas A&M baseball team looked like who we thought they were. All it took was facing off against the best team in the nation, I guess.
As I said, Friday night's contest only plunged fans into deeper pits of despair after the Aggies couldn't muster so much as a hit against the Volunteers. Imagine the shock, then, when the Aggies put up 26 runs in two games, ending the second one in only eight frames, to stun the Vols.
The two losses that the Aggies handed Tennessee on Saturday were as many as the Volunteers had suffered in the entire year up until that point. I cannot overstate how shocking of a result this is, given how the Ags had been playing this year, including only last night.
Maybe it was just a good day today for the Ags, and a bad one for the Vols. But two decisive wins, including a run-rule, is not something that even the most diehard Aggie fan had anticipated coming into this weekend.
The question remains now whether the Ags can leverage this to get a spark. Many A&M fans have already written off Earley as a failed experiment by now, but if they can pull things together down what will be an insanely tough stretch, things could look a lot different come tournament time.