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Oklahoma baseball drops rubber game, series to Georgia

Eddie On3by:Eddie Radosevich•04/26/25
OU baseball coach Skip Johnson
Oklahoma coach Skip Johnson watches from the dugout during a college Bedlam baseball game between the University of Oklahoma Sooners (OU) and the Oklahoma State University Cowboys (OSU) at O'Brate Stadium in Stillwater, Okla., Tuesday, April 15, 2025.

Oklahoma leaves Athens with a sour taste in their mouths, dropping Saturday’s rubber game 6-3 to No. 10 Georgia. 

Malachi Witherspoon‘s best outing of the year was spoiled by a Brennan Hudson three-run go-ahead home run in the sixth. 

Oklahoma drops to 30-13 overall, 11-10 in the SEC on the year. 

Missed opportunities and error the difference 

Scott Mudler opened the scoring in the second inning, lacing a two-out, two-run double down the right field line. 

One inning later, Kyle Branch came to the plate with the bases loaded and one out. After jumping ahead in the count 3-1, Branch swung at a ball out of the zone, grounding into an inning-ending double play. Even from a couch in Oklahoma City, you could feel the momentum shifting dugouts. It was a missed opportunity, something of a theme Saturday. The Sooners stranded 10 base runners. 

Kolby Branch quickly answered with a solo shot in the third to cut the lead to 2-1. 

Witherspoon settled in following the blast. He worked around a walk in the fourth and a one-out single in the fifth. 

It wasn’t until the sixth that Oklahoma blinked. Georgia leadoff man Henry Hunter got on, following a Dawson Willis throwing error. Slate Alford singled. After back-to-back strikeouts, Witherspoon fell behind Brennan Hudson and made a mistake.

Hudson, who entered the game in the second for the injured Ryland Zaborowsky, barreled a three-run bomb over the batter’s eye in center field. Lead gone, series on the brink. Georgia led 4-2 after six innings. 

Branch and Robbie Burnett added back-to0back solo shots in the seventh. 

Top of the lineup struggles 

Oklahoma can’t say it’ll leave Athens without plenty of run-scoring opportunities. It came of the golden variety in the seventh, loading the bases without putting the ball in play. Mason Hamlin, Dawson Willis and Jaxon Willits all walked, bringing Easton Carmichael to the plate with two outs. 

One pitch later, Georgia had wiggled out of the inning. Carmichael lifted the first pitch he saw to right to end the inning. The Sooners walked seven times but never scored from any of them.

The top of the Oklahoma lineup’s struggles offensively bled into Saturday’s finale. The foursome of Trey Gambill, Jaxon Willits, Easton Carmichael and Sam Christiansen went 1-for-16 with four walks and four strikeouts. 

Next up

Oklahoma returns to L. Dale Mitchell Ballpark next week, hosting Wichita State on Tuesday and hosting Ole Miss for a three-game series next weekend. 

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