Jaime Ferrer drills 3-run bomb to cement 6-0 lead over UVA in CWS elimination game

Few players have been hotter at the 2024 Men’s College World Series than Florida State outfielder Jaime Ferrer, and he flexed some impressive offensive muscle to blow open an elimination game against Virginia on Sunday.

With his second home run of the game and third at the 2024 CWS, Ferrer plated a trio of runs in the bottom of the 5th inning to double Florida State’s lead, putting the Seminoles ahead, 6-0, in an elimination game. And it came on a 2-0 offspeed pitch that Ferrer launched into the left field bullpen for his second long ball of the day.

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Jaime goes deep for the third time in the CWS and second time today!!!!

B5 | UVA 0, FSU 6 pic.twitter.com/1fa2GYt4Sm

— FSU Seminoles (@Seminoles) June 16, 2024

Florida State and Virginia are facing off in an elimination game. The winner will face the loser of Sunday evening’s game between North Carolina and Tennessee.

It’s a family affair for Seminoles head coach Link Jarrett this weekend

With Florida State in action in the Men’s College World Series on Sunday in an elimination game against Virginia, Father’s Day festivities have moved to the back burner for the respective squads. But not necessarily for Seminoles skipper Link Jarrett and his eldest son, J.T. Jarrett, currently on staff for the NC State baseball program.

Along with the Seminoles, the Wolfpack are also in Omaha — on the other side of the bracket — giving the father and son duo a chance to spend some quality time together on Saturday. The elder Jarrett explained on the ESPN broadcast on Sunday that getting some time to unplug with his son on Saturday, following a disappointing loss on Friday, was a nice salve for his frayed nerves.

“It’s great and I got to sit over there behind the first base dugout when he threw BP yesterday so I was a dad,” Jarrett said. “That was really cool for me just to sit back there by myself. I was a little bit upset when I woke up yesterday morning, but coming to this stadium and watching him do his thing and learn how to execute the coaching industry was awesome for me. And we got to go to dinner last night. So those are wins, yesterday, for me.”

And both father and son have seen their teams end up in a similar spot: Losing the opener and needing to win a handful of games in a row to make it out of their double-elimination bracket and into the championship series, where they could in theory meet.

But for that to happen, the Seminoles need to outlast Virginia on Sunday afternoon and the Wolfpack need a win over Florida on Monday just to stay alive for another game.