Tennessee
Tennessee baseball continues SEC domination, wins SEC Championship
Tennessee baseball completed its sweep against South Carolina with a 4-1 win on Saturday. With the win in the season finale, the Vols improved to 46-10 on the year and a 22-8 record in the Southeastern Conference.
The Vols did what they do best in the SEC Finale. They were explosive at the plate, and the pitching staff shut down SC throughout the series. The Vols outscored South Carolina 21-7 en route to the sweep and ninth straight SEC series win.
It was pure domination from the Vols throughout the SEC. The Vols won two out of three in all but one SEC series, including against Kentucky, which was just enough to help the Vols battle to win the SEC Championship.
Kentucky also finished with a 22-8 record in SEC play, but Tennessee holds the upper hand with a 2-1 record against the Cats, although they will share the SEC regular season title. The Vols also earned the No. 1 seed in the SEC Tournament as a result.
This marks the second time in three years Tennessee will claim an SEC Championship in baseball and the third time in four years the Vols have won an SEC East Championship. Tony Vitello has completely changed the baseball program, and the team is reaping the rewards of being champions again.
When Vitello arrived in Knoxville, the state of Tennessee was all Vanderbilt’s, but the BaseVols stopped at nothing to secure the state’s bragging rights and the conference. Vanderbilt was the dominant baseball team, but Tennessee is 8-1 against Vandy over the last three seasons, and Vitello has almost matched the Vols’ SEC Championships in that same time span.
Tennessee will now spend the next few days preparing for the SEC Tournament in Hoover, Alabama. The Vols will still have to put on a solid showing next week, but they are in a great spot to earn the No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament for an opportunity to head back to Omaha.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) – We’re experiencing our hottest weather since summer 2025.
The hottest weather of the year is having a major impact on Middle Tennesseans. Temperatures have soared well above average during the afternoon and remained unusually high at night for several days. That’s caused thousands across Middle Tennessee and southern Kentucky to temporarily change the way they go about everyday life. The heat has been so significant that temperatures have actually been in record territory.
For example, this past Sunday, Nashville nearly tied the highest minimum temperature ever for the date — 80° set in 1936. Nashville’s low on Sunday was 79.
As for high temperatures, while it was easily the hottest day of the year on Tuesday, Nashville missed that day’s record by nine degrees.
We’ll be closer on Wednesday, missing it by just six degrees.
There’s an even closer approach in line for Thursday. Our forecast for Nashville is 98°. The record high temperature is 101.
Cooler weather will eventually take over. By early next week, we expect highs to return to more seasonable levels — the low 90s.
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Former Tennessee baseball pitcher Garrett Stallings was called up by the Milwaukee Brewers on June 30.
Stallings, 28, likely will make his major league debut against the Cincinnati Reds on June 30 in the second game of the Brewers’ four-game homestand.
Stallings played at Tennessee from 2017 to 2019 in the early years of Tony Vitello’s stint at the Vols’ head coach. He earned a starting role as a freshman and became the ace by his junior season.
In 2019, the Los Angeles Angels selected Stallings in the fifth round of the MLB draft. He bounced around in the minors before landing firmly in Triple-A with the Norfolk Tides, and later the Brewers’ affiliate Nashville Sounds, in 2024.
Stallings posted a 3-3 record with the Sounds in 2026 with a 3.45 ERA and 59 strikeouts in 62⅔ innings.
He will be the 54th player in Tennessee history to reach the major leagues and the 12th since 2020. He will join left-hander Garrett Crochet (2020); right-hander Ben Joyce (2023); infielder Andre Lipcius (2023); IF Trey Lipscomb (2024); outfielder Jordan Beck (2024); RHP Seth Halvorsen (2024); RHP Chase Dollander (2025); RHP Blade Tidwell (2025); INF Christian Moore (2025); OF Drew Gilbert (2025); and RHP Chad Dallas (2026).
Dallas made his debut for the Toronto Blue Jays on June 4.
Wynton Jackson covers high school sports for Knox News. Email: wynton.jackson@knoxnews.com
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