Oregon State Hitter Embarrassingly Pimps Walk-Off Home Run That Lands Short For Final Out (Video)

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• Unless it’s a no-doubter, it’s better not to pimp your home runs.
• Oregon State’s Jacob Melton learned that the hard way on Sunday after pimping a walk-off that wasn’t.
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Oregon State baseball fell inches short of a weekend sweep on Sunday. After taking the first two games from a very good UC Irvine team, the No. 13-ranked Beavers came about as close as they could to a 10th-inning win in the final game of the series.

Instead, they embarrassingly pimped a walk-off home run that wasn’t a walk-off home run.

The Anteaters, after losing the first two games by a combined score of 7-16, got out to an early lead on Sunday. UCI put a run on the board in the second inning and followed it up with another in the third.

Four innings later, Oregon State scored its first run of the game and followed it up with the tying run in the eighth. Neither team could cross the plate in the ninth and the game went to extra innings.

As the away team, Irvine got to bat first and put a run on the board to take a 3-2 lead into the bottom half of the 10th inning. The home team got up to the dish and put a runner on second with a one-out double. From there, the third batter of the game grounded out to third for the second out of the inning.

That left things up to Jacob Melton.

Down one run, with two outs and a runner on second, Melton gave the first pitch he saw a ride to deep centerfield. He thought it was gone.

Melton took a moment to admire his shot before bat-flipping down the first base line. He thought that he won the game in walk-off fashion.

He did not. Melton flied out to the warning track to end the game.

The ball was just a few feet from going over the wall but it did not. Oregon State lost after a pimp job from Melton. Tough.