How Tommy Goodin hit walk-off grand slam for Vanderbilt baseball to sweep Tennessee

Tommy Goodin stepped to the plate, but before he saw a pitch, Vanderbilt hitting coach Jason Esposito called for a batter timeout. Esposito asked Goodin to explain what he was looking for at the plate and how he planned to approach the at-bat. Goodin had entered the game as a pinch hitter in the bottom of the ninth, with Vanderbilt baseball down three runs and the bases loaded with one out in the series finale against Tennessee.

The Commodores (17-12, 5-4 SEC) had already won the first two games via walk-off but had entered the ninth inning down three runs. Goodin sent the 1-0 pitch from Vols right-hander Brayden Krenzel over the left-center field fence for a walk-off grand slam as Vanderbilt won 16-15 to sweep the series over No. 21 Tennessee (18-10, 3-6).

"I knew (Krenzel) was struggling to locate and get a strike," Goodin said. "So I knew that one pitch that I was going to get and the opportunity I was going to get was going to be a pitch that he was just trying to get over for a strike. " Coach Tim Corbin chose to pinch-hit Goodin for catcher Korbin Reynolds despite the fact that Vanderbilt's second catcher, Mack Whitcomb, had already been pulled from the game after he hit a two-run single earlier in the inning and got pinch-run for.

Corbin said the reasoning was to get a left-handed bat in the game against Krenzel, and had the game gone to extra innings, Aukai Kea would've come in to catch. The Commodores defeated UT in the first game 3-2 in 10 innings. In Game 2, they won 6-5 in 16 innings.