Gorilla ball is supposed to be Georgia's game. The Bulldogs rolled into Omaha with the No. 2 offense in the country, a lineup built to slug anybody off the mound and dare you to keep up. Oklahoma didn't keep up — the Sooners flipped the script, hung crooked numbers, and sent the SEC's bat-rack home with a whimper.
Dasan Harris piling on with a 400-foot bomb as the Sooners stretched it to 8-3.
That's the kind of swing that ends a season. Harris launching one at 103.7 off the bat wasn't even the knockout — it was the exclamation point on a beatdown that had already taken on a life of its own. When you're the supposed offensive juggernaut and the underdog is the one mashing, the vibes in your dugout get real quiet, real fast.
And the math on Georgia's tournament was brutal. The top-2 offense in the country managed 9 runs across its last 3 games in Omaha. Nine. That's not a slump, that's a system failure against pitching that refused to give in.
UGA just learned the hard lesson about gorilla ball in Omaha. Top 2 offense in nation scored 9 runs in last 3 games
There was at least one moment worth saving for the Dawgs. Colby Branch, the senior shortstop, ended his college career the way every kid scribbling in a notebook would draw it up — by going deep in his final at-bat in Omaha. Losing stings, but you don't get to write a better last page than that.
UGA SS Colby Branch’s final AB of career a homer in Omaha is so cool
Meanwhile, the degens who trusted the dog got paid. Oklahoma at +160 was sitting right there, and the gorilla-ball memo finally caught up to the team that wrote it. Omaha doesn't care about your regular-season OPS — and the Sooners just reminded everybody why.