Tennessee star infielder Christian Moore is one of the top college prospects in the 2024 MLB draft, and he’s made himself a lot of money in the postseason.
Moore has helped carry the top-seeded Volunteers to Omaha for the third time in the last four years, and the junior did something even more special than that during the team’s first game in Omaha against Florida State.
He hit for the cycle for just the second time in the entire history of the College World Series. It was also the sixth-ever cycle for a Tennessee player and the first in the postseason.
After hitting a triple, double and single in his first three at-bats, Moore capped things off perfectly in the bottom of the sixth with a 440-foot two-run shot to dead center in the deep Charles Schwab Stadium outfield.
This man is playing a video game!
Sixth cycle in program history and first ever in the postseason!
📺 https://t.co/dVeQaEJOOQ (ESPN)#GBO // #OTH // #MCWS // #BeatFSU pic.twitter.com/KNpempmq67
— Tennessee Baseball (@Vol_Baseball) June 15, 2024
His heroics weren’t done there, as Moore’s two-out double in the bottom of the ninth kept the game alive, and he became the tying run in what was an eventual walk-off win.
DYLAN CLUTCH DREILING WALKS IT OFF!!!!!
VOLS WIN!!! pic.twitter.com/lHcMQxTZ9U
— Tennessee Baseball (@Vol_Baseball) June 15, 2024
It’s more of what Moore has been doing all year. He entered Friday night’s game with a .375 batting average on the season, and the home run to clinch the cycle was his 33rd of the season, pacing a Tennessee lineup that is arguably the best in the entire country.
Moore was ranked No. 40 on last month’s MLB draft board from ESPN’s Kiley McDaniel, while Perfect Game slots him as the No. 22 prospect on its recent board. However, his performance in the postseason has likely moved him up a few spots on those rankings.
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