I’ve never been the one who took much pleasure in saying “I told you so,” but let’s be honest for a moment. What started innocently enough earlier in the season is beyond ridiculous now. WVU’s baseball team is finding new and exciting ways to win games late.

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – One thing is for certain with this year’s West Virginia University baseball team: you have to play all 27 outs to beat the Mountaineers at Hawley Field. For the third time this year West Virginia got a game-winning hit in its final at-bat.

This time it was Austin Markel’s inside-the-park home run that drove in Jedd Gyorko to give West Virginia at 12-11 come-from-behind victory over Connecticut Saturday afternoon. Markel’s two-strike, two-out hit came off of Husky closer David Erickson, who got Tyler Kuhn looking on a backdoor slider to begin the ninth and also got Mountaineer cleanup hitter Vince Belnome to fly out to left.

What do you call that? Is it a run-off home run? Or is it just fate? Seriously, that has to be one of the most exciting finishes — moments? — in Hawley Field history. I’m telling you, put John Denver on the shelf and cue up the Buffalo Springfield. There’s something happening here…