Georgia Completes Its Three-Game Sweep Against Florida

No.4 Georgia completes its three-game sweep against No.13 Florida with a 15-4 mercy rule victory. It is the first time Florida (18-8, 0-6 SEC) has been swept at home since 2022. After a late-inning struggle in Game 1, the Gators could not find their way in Games 2 and 3. Florida had no answers offensively or defensively and was outplayed in every facet.

“I can’t recall a weekend quite like this to be honest with you, obviously disappointing,” O’Sullivan said. “I had a team meeting yesterday after the game, pressed on them a little bit and obviously they did not respond today.”

Offense Early and Often

Georgia (24-2, 5-1 SEC) looked unstoppable Saturday at the plate. Those good vibes carried into Sunday’s finale as the bats continued rolling. Like game two, Georgia set the tone early with a first-inning Ryland Zaborowski RBI double to take the 1-0 lead. After back-to-back singles, Christian Adams blasted a ball off the scoreboard to make it 4-0.

Brendan Lawson answered for Florida in the bottom of the second with an opposite-field home run to make it 4-1.

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Georgia responded in the fourth. After Adams doubled, Slate Alford hit a two-run home run that reached 115 mph to extend the lead to 6-1. Adams stayed red-hot at the dish, sending his second homer of the game into the grove to make it 7-1.

High-Scoring Sixth Inning

After Florida went quiet in the bottom of the fifth, Georgia responded with six runs to blow the game open in the sixth. The inning started with back-to-back walks, which allowed Zaborowski to hit a towering three-run bomb to push the lead to 10-1. Zaborowski crushed his 14th home run of the year, leading all of college baseball.

Later in the inning, the Bulldogs got two more on, allowing Nolan McCarthy to notch his fourth home run of the season, blowing the game open to make it 13-1. Florida answered back in the bottom half of the inning with three runs of their own. Ashton Wilson got it going with an RBI single. Colby Shelton scored on a groundout and Luke Heyman singled to right field, scoring Wilson and making it a 13-4 game.

Following the sixth, Georgia responded with a big seventh inning. Robbie Burnett joined the home run parade, blasting his 13th of the year to left field, making it a 15-4 ballgame.

The Bulldogs outscored Florida 40-13 this weekend, hitting 13 home runs. making that 70 on the season. In six SEC games, Georgia has scored 76 runs.

Leighton Finley Deals for UGA

RHP Leighton Finley started Sunday for the Bulldogs. It has been an up-and-down season for Finley, but he got back on track against the Gators. Finley was coming off a miserable performance last week where he went 1 1/3 innings pitched. On Sunday, he got back on track, going five innings, giving up two hits, one walk and one run, striking out three.

Energy on the bump

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In the sixth, RHP Zach Brown got pulled after giving up three runs. RHP Matthew Hoskins was able to get out of the inning and retired the side in the seventh to finish out the game.

Same Story Different Day for UF Pitching

It was another tough day for Florida pitching. RHP Jake Clemente got the start and struggled similarly to his counterparts. He struggled in the first and second innings, giving up four runs, including a home run to Adams. After issuing a leadoff walk in the third, he was pulled. Clemente went two innings, gave up five hits, four runs, a walk and two strikeouts. It was another tough outing for the Gators’ starting pitching, which has struggled to get innings out of guys while some are still on the injury list.

“We have to figure out starting pitching,” Kevin O’Sullivan said postgame. “We just can’t go two innings, three innings and some change.”

RHP Jackson Barberi came in relief of Clemente. He settled things down in the third inning, putting up a zero. Unfortunately, in the fourth, things unraveled for Barberi. After striking out two of the first three hitters, he gave up a two-run homer. He did get out of a bases-loaded jam to end the inning, limiting the damage to two runs.

Barberi’s day ended in the fourth inning after he recorded the first two outs. LHP Nico Janssens entered and immediately allowed a towering home run to Adams.

After Janssens was yanked, RHP Caden McDonald was called in and gave up a three-run homer. After McDonald, RHP Christian Rodriguez was brought in to sort this mess out. He did not. Like the ones before him, he gave up a three-run home run, too.

The struggles were real again for Florida. With seven more free passes Sunday to go with 15 runs off 13 hits.

With this series now over, the Gators’ pitching staff will need to find some answers on who can step up and give the team innings going forward.

What is Next

Florida turns their attention to Florida State on Tuesday at 6 p.m. in Jacksonville. Listen live here at ESPN 98.1 FM/850 AM WRUF.