FAMU baseball walks off Texas Southern in 16-inning SWAC marathon
It took 16 innings and over five hours to determine a winner in the SWAC regular season finale between FAMU baseball and Texas Southern.
It took nearly two complete games for a winner to be determined between Florida A&M baseball and Texas Southern on Saturday, May 16. And it was the Rattlers who prevailed to cap off the Southwestern Athletic Conference regular season finale series. FAMU (27-22, 22-8 in SWAC) beat Texas Southern (20-22, 15-9 in SWAC) 9-8 in 16 innings.
Josue Figueroa sealed the deal by scoring on a wild pitch by Texas Southern’s Demarques Thompson as the Rattlers faced two outs. “Two plays before, I could have really gone to third. But I didn’t want to get too aggressive.
Got to play it a little safe,” Figureoa told the Tallahassee Democrat. “I was kind of scared with two outs. I was like, ‘Aw man, got to end it here.
’ Then that ball passed, and I just saw the opportunity and busted myself over to home. ” Figueroa’s score completed the game in 5 hours and 15 minutes for FAMU’s Senior Day at Moore-Kittles Field. The longest recorded college baseball game is a 2009 matchup between Texas and Boston College, where the Longhorns won 3-2 in 25 innings, taking over seven hours.