Tennessee baseball head coach Tony Vitello met with the media following the Vols’ thrilling 10-8 win over Ole Miss in Sunday’s rubber match in Oxford.
Vitello shared his thoughts on how his team was able to get it done, what was different about his team this weekend compared to last, Reese Chapman’s crucial two-run homer in the ninth and more.
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Watch Vitello’s entire post-game press conference below.
“Just with what we were lacking last Saturday, with grit,” Vitello said when asked how his team was able to get the win. “It really didn’t even make any sense, to be honest with you. Maybe they could’ve had the same narrative if they were able to win, maybe that storyline is that they did it at home, but for us, I don’t know if you could argue we played good baseball.
“Again, part of it is the competition you are playing. We’re playing in a new environment as far as the field goes, but [we] just kind of and gritted and gutted our way through the whole thing and it worked out the right way.”
