It’s been an up-and-down season for Texas A&M baseball, to put it lightly, but the Aggies’ campaign officially came to a close in a 7-1 loss to Stanford in the NCAA Regional. The latter will move on to the Super Regionals in a matchup versus Texas, while the Maroon and White enter an offseason with clear work ahead of them.
Despite beating this same Stanford team on Saturday night to allow the Aggies a second opportunity to advance out of the regional, Monday night’s performance showed why the Cardinal earned the No. 8 national seed.
In spite of a solid start from Nathan Dettmer, who lasted six innings while striking out eight batters, A&M was unable to capitalize on the opportunity. The Aggies’ offense went ice cold as they went 2-for-20 (.100) with runners on base on Monday night while hitting 7-for-33 (.212) overall with 10 strikeouts.
Outside of a Jace LaViolette homer in the second, the highlight reel of A&M’s offense is pretty sparse.
Monday night’s loss undoubtedly leaves a bitter taste in the mouths of Aggies fans, but kudos must still be given to how A&M competed through the postseason. They won six of their final eight SEC series, went on to play in the SEC title, and came one win away from advancing to a Super Regional.
Still, a disappointing loss leaves plenty of room for questions of what could have been, as well as hot takes from social media.
Here are some of the notable reactions from the Twitter timeline Monday night, and of course there were Longhorns fans arriving in droves to hit send on those tweets: