Overview
- Rodriguez went 5-for-5 with seven RBIs and 12 total bases in Texas’s 14-2 win over Alabama, a performance that prevented immediate elimination from the Men’s College World Series.
- An official scorer at Charles Schwab Field changed Rodriguez’s second-inning ruling to a triple, and that revision completed the cycle when combined with his earlier double, single and two-run homer.
- Texas now faces an elimination rematch with Georgia, with the Longhorns riding Rodriguez’s hot bat as they pursue the program’s first national title since 2005.
- Rodriguez said he did not realize he had hit for the cycle until someone in the dugout told him, and he gave the ball from his fifth hit to his brother in the stands.
- The cycle is only the third in Men’s College World Series history, joining Jerry Kindall (1956) and Christian Moore (2024), and Rodriguez is hitting .667 through seven NCAA Tournament games.