The red-hot Longhorns baseball team got a 10th inning walk-off home run from catcher Rylan Galvan to give Texas a 4-3 win and a weekend sweep of the No. 3 Georgia Bulldogs. No. 5 UT is now 26-4 overall and 11-1 in the SEC, by far the strongest conference in the country with four teams in the top five of the USA TODAY Sports coaches poll.
As he rounded third and headed for home, Galvan flung his helmet into the Austin sky and ran to his celebrating teammates around home plate, who sprayed the right hander with water bottles and ripped off his shirt.
“Which one was better, my swing or my shirt coming off?” Galvan said after the game. “I was kind of able to back them into a corner with the three-one count, and I knew if I got it, I wasn’t going to miss it, and [I] put a good swing on it.”
Galvan's ninth home run of the season gave Texas its second consecutive sweep in SEC play after doing the same to Missouri last weekend.
Game 3 of the series was the closest of the series. The Horns won 5-1 Friday night behind home runs by center fielder Will Gasparino and third baseman Casey Borba.
Saturday, Texas got down early 4-0. But UT got a two-run home run from designated hitter Jaquae Stewart and a five-run seventh inning to help the Horns cruise to the win.
This article originally appeared on Longhorns Wire: 10th inning walk-off HR gives Texas baseball sweep of No. 3 Georgia
