Omaha is a place with some special memories for Whit Merrifield and Nicky Lopez of the Kansas City Royals, and it showed on Thursday night as the Royals and Detroit Tigers invaded TD Ameritrade Park to open the College World Series with the first Major League Baseball game in the state of Nebraska. St. Petersburg was a pretty special place to be an Angels player, and the South Side was pretty special for White Sox fans. It was a special kind of night all around the sport of baseball, which is just getting warmed up.
Whit Merrifield has some fond memories of Omaha from when he won a national championship there with South Carolina.
But Thursday night belonged to Nicky Lopez, who played at Creighton and is even more familiar with the home of the College World Series. The CWS, by the way, begins Saturday.
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Mike Trout doesn’t use his Instagram account all that often, so when he does you know something special happened. A Shohei Ohtani cycle qualifies, for sure.
The up-and-coming White Sox won a back-and-forth game with the Yankees last night, with Leury Garcia hitting the go-ahead home run and Aaron Bummer slamming the door in the ninth.
Now that’s how you cap an 11-pitch at-bat! pic.twitter.com/tTg0uYChHT
— Chicago White Sox (@whitesox) June 14, 2019
.@aaronbummer slammed the door in the 9th to earn his first career save! pic.twitter.com/ZVVskd9oq9
— Chicago White Sox (@whitesox) June 14, 2019
Football is great and all, but come on, Adam Schefter, baseball season is just getting warmed up.
lol k https://t.co/MNiQIPmjrK
— Cut4 (@Cut4) June 14, 2019
