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Vanderbilt baseball right fielder Logan Johnstone was sick on March 10 and missed the Commodores' victory against Indiana State.
Food poisoning was the culprit.
He returned to Hawkins Field on March 13, just in time to make LSU sick when he hit a two-run, walkoff home run to put an exclamation point on a 13-12 victory. The Commodores had more runs than hits − 13-10 − walked 11 times, left 10 runners on base and struck out 14 times.
"He threw me something that spun and I swung through it," Johnstone said of the home run.
When asked if he'd ever experienced a moment like that, his mind spun.
"Maybe not to that extent," he said. "Going into the at-bat, just another at-bat in my opinion, you can't make it out to be any something bigger."
And how about that game that Vanderbilt once led by six runs?
"That was a pretty insane game," Johnstone said. "Probably one of the most crazy games I've ever played, but that's SEC baseball."
Vanderbilt coach Tim Corbin's face didn't wear the look of a man whose team just won its SEC opener and jumped up and down in joy.
The Tigers scored five runs in the eighth inning to take the lead, the last three of which came on a wild pitch, passed ball, wild pitch sequence.
"It means a lot," Corbin said. "Means you took a punch, and the eighth inning was an inning from hell, and we were able to survive it and come back. But no, it's not how you draw it up."
Johnstone's home run nothwithstanding.
"I saw a kid who didn't try to do too much," Corbin said. " ... If you overswing, probably not going to get much out of it."
Corbin's mood was in contrast to March 10, when he joked about Johnstone's illness.
"I don't know where he ate," Corbin said after that game. "I'm going to avoid wherever that was.
"You get what you pay for. If you pay for bad food, you're going to get bad food and then you're going to leak. That's never good."
Paul Skrbina is a sports enterprise reporter covering the Predators, Titans, Nashville SC, local colleges and local sports for The Tennessean. Reach him at [email protected] and on the X platform (formerly known as Twitter) @paulskrbina.
This article originally appeared on Nashville Tennessean: Vandy baseball's Logan Johnstone reacts to walkoff homer vs LSU
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Food poisoning was the culprit.
He returned to Hawkins Field on March 13, just in time to make LSU sick when he hit a two-run, walkoff home run to put an exclamation point on a 13-12 victory. The Commodores had more runs than hits − 13-10 − walked 11 times, left 10 runners on base and struck out 14 times.
"He threw me something that spun and I swung through it," Johnstone said of the home run.
When asked if he'd ever experienced a moment like that, his mind spun.
"Maybe not to that extent," he said. "Going into the at-bat, just another at-bat in my opinion, you can't make it out to be any something bigger."
And how about that game that Vanderbilt once led by six runs?
"That was a pretty insane game," Johnstone said. "Probably one of the most crazy games I've ever played, but that's SEC baseball."
What Tim Corbin said about Logan Johnstone
Vanderbilt coach Tim Corbin's face didn't wear the look of a man whose team just won its SEC opener and jumped up and down in joy.
The Tigers scored five runs in the eighth inning to take the lead, the last three of which came on a wild pitch, passed ball, wild pitch sequence.
"It means a lot," Corbin said. "Means you took a punch, and the eighth inning was an inning from hell, and we were able to survive it and come back. But no, it's not how you draw it up."
Johnstone's home run nothwithstanding.
"I saw a kid who didn't try to do too much," Corbin said. " ... If you overswing, probably not going to get much out of it."
What Tim Corbin said about Logan Johnstone's food poisoning
Corbin's mood was in contrast to March 10, when he joked about Johnstone's illness.
"I don't know where he ate," Corbin said after that game. "I'm going to avoid wherever that was.
"You get what you pay for. If you pay for bad food, you're going to get bad food and then you're going to leak. That's never good."
Paul Skrbina is a sports enterprise reporter covering the Predators, Titans, Nashville SC, local colleges and local sports for The Tennessean. Reach him at [email protected] and on the X platform (formerly known as Twitter) @paulskrbina.
This article originally appeared on Nashville Tennessean: Vandy baseball's Logan Johnstone reacts to walkoff homer vs LSU
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