Oklahoma State Moves To Within Three Wins of CWS Title

Oklahoma State has not given up six runs in seven postseason games after defeating Arizona 1-0 on Monday night at the College World Series. The Pokes, now 7-0 in the postseason, advanced to Friday’s CWS matchup and will play the winner of UC Santa Barbara and Arizona, both of which it has shut out already.

This is the first time OSU has won its first two games in Omaha since 1990 when it went on to lose in the championship game against Georgia. Nobody on its current roster was even alive in 1990.

Tyler Buffett went eight innings and gave up just three hits on Monday night before Trey Cobb sealed the deal in the ninth. This play from Ryan Sluder was, um, helpful.

Holy cow that was fun! And yes @ryslu1 caught this one. Pokes win 1-0. Again. @OSUBaseball pic.twitter.com/itb8K3AO64

— Bruce Waterfield (@osusportsphotog) June 21, 2016

Half man… Half amazing!

Oklahoma State's Ryan Sluder makes an absolutely BONKERS catch! #SCTop10 https://t.co/DfqzPYE0V4

— NCAA Baseball (@NCAACWS) June 21, 2016

Also, Oklahoma State became the first team in College World Series history to win back-to-back games 1-0.

So now OSU is in the driver’s seat in its side of the bracket. Either Arizona or UCSB will have to beat it twice on less pitching than OSU currently has at its disposal. One win against those teams sends OSU to the CWS finals on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday against the winner of the other bracket. his might be happening, you guys. This might really be happening.

More from Max coming up later tonight. OSU will play on Friday at 2 p.m.