In the first inning, Jordan Beck hit a home run for Tennessee, but he was ruled out after umpires inspected his bat. His bat did not have an approved sticker for Friday’s Vanderbilt game.
The Southeastern Conference released a statement to Vols Wire regarding the incident.
“In pre-series bat testing, a sticker with the logo of the opposing team is placed on legal bats. There was a sticker on the bat in question, but it was not an appropriate sticker on the bat. It was a sticker from a midweek game. Therefore the bat was deemed illegal.”
“All of UT’s bats on the trip were tested (and passed) Thursday with one UT representative on hand and two from Vanderbilt,” Wilkerson announced on Monday. “Only one bat failed (a Vanderbilt bat) pre-series. Beck used his bat in BP (Thursday and Friday) ahead of game one (and Beck said his sticker fell off in the cage). After his home run was disallowed, Beck’s bat was removed and kept by the umpires in their dressing room. UT checked all stickers again and another was missing. That bat was not used Friday, was retested Saturday, and issued a new sticker and was used in games two and three. If further testing was done on Beck’s bat, it would’ve had to be removed from the umpire’s dressing room and would have taken place without any reps from UT present. Beck’s bat was returned to Tennessee after yesterday’s game.”
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