With a resume like Brian O’Connor’s, there’s no doubt that he’s a target for big-time coaching searches like LSU.

Facing one of the most dangerous lineups in the nation, Virginia ace Andrew Abbott pitched his way out of an early jam, then handcuffed favored Tennessee to help the Cavaliers upend the Vols 6-0 in their opening game of the College World Series on Sunday.

On Father’s Day, Logan Michaels delivered the most precious gift possible in his first at bat in the College World Series.

There’s something about having been to Omaha before that’s comforting for Brian O’Connor and some of his coaching staff.

Andrew Abbott, who will start Sunday’s College World Series game against Tennessee, almost has to pinch himself to believe that he and his teammates are really in Omaha.

Virginia is on the eve of its fifth appearance in the College World Series, bracing for a meeting with No. 3 national seed Tennessee on Sunday.

LSU coach Paul Mainieri joins “The Jerry Ratcliffe Show” to talk about his former pitching coach, Brian O’Connor, and break down UVA vs. Tennessee coming up on Sunday in the 2021 College World Series.

Senior pitcher Andrew Abbott garnered All-America honors from the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association and Baseball America. Reliever Blake Bales was a second team selection on the NCBWA’s All-America team.

“The Jerry Ratcliffe Show” breaks down UVA’s improbable run to another College World Series berth.

Way back in early April, when Virginia’s baseball team was a golf ball lost in the weeds, Brian O’Connor was looking for answers.

On the brink of elimination for the sixth time in postseason, Virginia beat the odds once again on Monday when freshman Kyle Teel smashed a seventh-inning grand slam to lift the Cavaliers to a series-clinching, 5-2 win over Dallas Baptist, punching their ticket to the College World Series.

While Griff McGarry was putting on a masterful performance in Virginia’s win over Dallas Baptist in Game 2 of the NCAA Super Regional in Columbia, S.C., on Sunday, perhaps a lighter moment helped the senior right-hander smooth his way through his only bump in the road.

In a classic pitching duel between Virginia’s Griff McGarry and Dallas Baptist’s Rhett Kouba, it appeared the outcome would be determined by which pitcher could outlast the other.

Backs against the wall has been Virginia baseball’s calling card for the past two months, and the Cavaliers will once again draw on that mantra on Sunday in the best-of-three Super Regional against Dallas Baptist.

While all the other Super Regionals are being played at home sites, Virginia and Dallas Baptist won’t have that luxury. The NCAA, set in its ways, apparently didn’t even consider moving the Super Regional to either Dallas/Fort Worth or to Charlottesville.

At least a million baseball fans became familiar with Virginia’s overnight sensation Stephen Schoch after he made a sizable splash in Virginia’s romp to the NCAA Columbia regional championship last weekend.

Dr. Winston Gwathmey from UVA Orthopedics joins “The Jerry Ratcliffe Show” to help Jerry and AFP editor Chris Graham preview the UVA-Dallas Baptist Super Regionals series.

UVA first-year Kyle Teel was named to the Collegiate Baseball Newspaper Freshman All-America team as a designated hitter.

Andrew Abbott has been named as one of 25 semifinalists for the Golden Spikes Award, annually bestowed on the top amateur baseball player of the year.