Florida Baseball survives trap game against UNF ahead of Miami series

With the Miami series looming, Wednesday night's game for Florida Baseball against UNF would have been easy for the Gators to overlook. The Gators came in undefeated off of a weird and wild game against Stetson and were trying to save some key arms for Miami.

It wasn't perfect, and Florida needed some good fortune, but the Gators took advantage of mistakes by UNF to survive in a walk-off 7-6 victory to move to 9-0 on the season.

Florida Baseball: Survive And Advance

Six innings into Wednesday night, things were mostly mundane for the Gators. Jackson Barberi, Niko Janssens, and McCall Biemiller had combined for six scoreless innings and Blake Cyr's single in the 4th put Florida up 3-0.

UNF scratched two back in the 7th and it looked like Florida was going to head into the 8th up just 3-2. With two outs in the 7th, Bobby Boser hit a pop fly in the infield that would have ended the inning, but UNF let it drop to keep the inning alive.

UNF had another chance to escape the inning when Colby Shelton grounded to 3rd, but a throwing error kept him safe. Brody Donay made UNF pay with a two-run home run that put Florida up 6-2.

Florida took that lead into the 9th and ran into some trouble. UNF loaded the bases with the score 6-3 and two outs. A bases-clearing double tied the game and forced Florida to bat in the bottom of the 9th for the first time this season.

Florida kept their cool and loaded the bases with one out when a wild pitch brought Brendan Lawson home for the game-winning run.

After the game, Kevin O'Sullivan noted how he sent out a bunch of younger arms in an attempt to save their main pitchers for the series against Miami:

"I knew it was going to be a difficult game because you're trying to get guys out there for their first experience and you really don't know how it's going to go, so once they have a little success you don't, hopefully, want to leave them in there too long."

" think it was important for us not to throw Alex Philpott because he threw 35 pitches last night. Luke McNeillie, we wanted to give some rest to and I think there's somebody else in there that was off the card tonight."

Florida will now turn its attention to Miami for a three-game home series starting on Friday.