Tennessee baseball head coach Tony Vitello met with the media following the Vols’ 4-3, walk-off win over Vanderbilt in extra innings to open the series.
Vitello discussed what a win like this can do for the team, Chase Burns’ elite relief outing, Andrew Lindsey’s great start, home runs from Kavares Tears and Dylan Dreiling and more.
“His outing was impressive enough I don’t have words for it, and yet,” Vitello said on Burns’ outing in which he struck out seven of nine batters. “Tonight, which I hope he didn’t make me look too dumb, but when I just tap him on the shoulder all of a sudden and say, ‘Do you want this or not?’ and he says, ‘Yeah,’ and goes down there, gets ready, pretty much in a hurry, and then comes in in that situation… it’s hard not to put the ball in the hand of the guy we did, and overall, the circumstances dictated that I felt.”
Vitello’s entire postgame press conference video is below.
