The Louisville Cardinals’ baseball team had a bit of a premature celebration Saturday in the second game of their NCAA super regional series against the Kentucky Wildcats. Thanks to a 5-2 win Friday in the opening game of the best-of-three series, the Cardinals were in strong position heading into this one, and up 6-2 in the bottom of the ninth with two outs, they were quite set to celebrate heading to the College World Series. A little too set, as it turned out, as they stormed the field following a close play at first, only to have the umpire call the runner safe thanks to first baseman Sam Bordner being ruled off the bag:

Here’s a replay of the call and the preemptive field-storming:

Missed it by that much. But at least Louisville got the third out soon after, and they were able to properly celebrate a win over their in-state rivals. It would have been really awkward if they’d gone on to lose.

[Clippit]