After losing a 3-1 lead in the top of the ninth, Oregon State walked it off with a Gavin Turley hit at the College World Series vs. Louisville.

The scramble to build a competitive schedule, grueling road trips and a team bus snafu highlighted Oregon State's road back to national title contention

Hello, baseball fans. Welcome to The Athletic's live coverage of the College World Series. We have eight intriguing teams to follow this week as they chase a national title.

Oregon State baseball's first game at the College World Series since 2018 was one for the ages. The Beavers battled until the end to lock up a 4-3 victory over

To get to the College World Series, teams had to win at least five games over two weekends without losing more than once each round. Three of the eight qualifiers swept their way to Omaha, while one (Oregon State) had to play eight times to secure a spot.

Caraway led off the bottom of the first inning with a line drive single to left, jumpstarting a game-changing first inning that featured seven runs and five hits, including back-to-back home runs. And the second of those homers came from McEntire, in his first-career postseason at-bat, when he belted a towering shot to left field.

A legitimate Cinderella story, a conference-less powerhouse and the nation's hottest team threaten to end the SEC's reign atop the sport

I love this College World Series field, writes . We’ve got eight teams of all shapes and sizes, dreamers and big boys, small ball and big budgets. And, mostly,