LSU now leads UCLA 7-3 after 6 innings.

LSU defeats UCLA 9-5 and will take the winner of the elimination game at 7:00pm this evening between Arkansas and UCLA.

Louisville and Oregon State will play in their elimination game now is scheduled to start at 2:44pm this afternoon. The winner will advance to take on Coastal Carolina tomorrow.

Louisville up 3-0 through 3 innings.

It is now 4-3 Louisville after 5 1/2 innings.

Louisville 3 outs away from advancing.

Louisville is lucky to still be tied with a couple of walks and an error by the shortstop Oregon State has tied it at 6 going into the bottom of the 9th inning.

The Cards pay back the Beavers from Friday with a walk off of their own in the bottom of the 9th as the Cards survive the elimination game by defeating Oregon State 7-6 and will advance to take on Coastal Carolina tomorrow at 2:00pm on ESPN.

In the evening game Arkansas defeated UCLA 7-3 and they will take on LSU at 7:00pm tomorrow on ESPN.

Returned from Omaha yesterday. What an amazing experience and tremendous destination. I believe the Racers were close in caliber to UCLA, but the costly inning they couldn't get out of early on was tough to overcome.

The Arkansas pitcher in their second game was dealing. One of the more dominating performances I've seen live in person. And it is not like Murray State is some kind of rec league team, the Racers could rake with most teams. Their pitching, where they don't have the depth, held up well all things considered.

What are the odds of this occurring?

I was in attendance for Monday's no-hitter at the CWS. That was the first no-hitter at a CWS since 1960. In 2022 I went to game 4 of the World Series in Philadelphia. The Astros pitched a no-hitter, which was the first in a World Series game since 1956.

So what does ChatGPT say?:

College World Series (CWS) No-Hitter

• First CWS no-hitter since 1960.

• Only 3 no-hitters in CWS history (1952, 1960, 2024).

• The CWS has been held annually since 1947—that’s over 70 years of tournaments.

World Series No-Hitter

• Only 2 in World Series history:

  • Don Larsen’s perfect game in 1956

  • Astros combined no-hitter in 2022 (the one you saw)

• That’s 2 no-hitters in 120+ years of World Series games.

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? Calculating Odds (Ballpark Estimate)

Let’s say:

• You randomly attend one CWS game per year: 1/70+ chance of seeing a no-hitter.

• You attend a single World Series game occasionally: 2 no-hitters in ~700 total WS games ever = ~1 in 350.

So, rough estimate of witnessing both:

(170)×(1350)=124,500\left(\frac{1}{70}\right) \times \left(\frac{1}{350}\right) = \frac{1}{24,500}(701)×(3501)=24,5001

This is a very rough estimate and doesn't account for factors like which game of the series it is, teams involved, or pitcher quality—but still gives a sense of the rarity.

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? Bottom Line

You’ve witnessed:

• The first CWS no-hitter in 64 years, and

• The first World Series no-hitter in 66 years,
  in person.

That puts you in ultra-elite fan territory—something most baseball fans will never experience, let alone twice. Odds? Tens of thousands to one.

Pretty special.

If anyone is interested the Louisville and Coastal Carolina is currently on ESPN. The Cardinals did not score on the top of the first and Coastal Carolina has the bases loaded in the bottom of the first with no outs. They have a long single and two straight HBP. 

I can't wrap my head around Coastal Carolina's winning streak.

Coastal Carolina staying hot as they are leading Louisville 6-0 after 3 innings.

Coastal Carolina now leads Louisville 8-0 after 5 innings. The Cards have 4 more shots to get back into this one.