The Missouri Tigers have won their fourth straight game against the perennial powerhouse Texas Longhorns. This one was weird: weirdly gruesome for the 'horns, weirdly wonderful for the Tigers.
Texas left the winning run on third base in the bottom of the ninth after Clark hit a two-run, two-out single between first and second base to tie the game at 6.
But it was Clark who believed he cost the Longhorns the game in the 11th.
With Missouri's Kurt Calvert on third and two outs, Clark had just caught a strike from pitcher Randy Boone. He tossed the ball back to Boone, as he had thousands of times before.
This one sailed over Boone's head, landing just past the pitcher's mound.
Texas second baseman Travis Tucker picked up the ball and fired it home, but Calvert slid in safely before Clark could get the tag down.
And the final play.
...The play began with Van Hook on first, and Jordan Danks hitting a line drive to right field.
Van Hook took off on contact, and Tigers right fielder Ryan Lollis dived for the ball, which bounced out of his glove and rolled away.
Lollis reached the ball as Van Hook was rounding third.
"I didn't think he would go home, that's why I wasn't running to the ball that fast," Lollis said. "But I looked up and he was going, so luckily I threw a good ball to the plate."
...The ball was there, Missouri catcher Trevor Coleman was in front of the plate and so Van Hook was tagged out inches from scoring the tying run for Texas in the 11th inning on Friday night.
Goes in as a W in the record books.