Florida advances to College World Series finals with victory over TCU

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One-run games never get old as long as you're winning — and Florida is doing plenty of that right now.

Florida reached the College World Series finals with a 3-2 victory over TCU on Wednesday, making the Gators the fourth team in history to win their bracket with three straight one-run wins.

"It’s not easy to get to this point. It's just not," coach Kevin O'Sullivan said. "I know I overstate it and say it over and over, but we just played three one-run games and they’re all nail-biters down to the end."

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Florida players celebrate after Josh Rivera batted in Wyatt Langford, center, with a home run against TCU in the first inning of a baseball game at the NCAA College World Series in Omaha, Neb., Wednesday, June 21, 2023. (AP Photo/Rebecca S. Gratz)

Cade Kurland, who had struggled at the plate in the CWS, reached on an infield single to drive in the tiebreaking run in the ninth. Michael Robertson, who scored the winning run as a pinch runner and stayed in the game to play center field, ran down Brayden Taylor's deep fly to make a dazzling catch at the wall to end the game.

"There’s a lot of things that have to go right," O'Sullivan said.

Florida joined Eastern Michigan in 1976, South Carolina in 1977 and Texas in 2002 as the only teams in the 76-year history of the CWS to win their first three games by a single run.

The Gators' run started Friday with a walk-off 6-5 win over Virginia after they erased a two-run deficit in the ninth. Then on Sunday, they survived Oral Roberts' inside-the-park home run, O'Sullivan's mound-visit rules violation that forced their closer out of the game