Game-Tying Homer, Missed Home Plate, Review That Wasn't Reviewable: Tennessee and UCLA Just Had the Most Insane Sequence in the History of College Softball That You Have To See To Believe

I admittedly don't watch a ton of college softball, but I can't imagine there has been anything crazier than this sequence in many years.

Down to its last out, UCLA hit a two-run, game-tying homer to stave off elimination in the Women's College World Series. Except when Megan Grant came around the bases, she stepped right over home plate and was touched by her teammates before ever stepping on the plate. By rule, she's out and the game should have been over.

And after a lengthy review, the umpires came back out and admitted that they saw her miss the plate, but the play wasn't actually reviewable to begin with, so the call stands — the play not being reviewable also precluded Tennessee from filing a protest. So the umpires know UCLA lost, but because they were so incompetent they didn't know they couldn't review that play, we're just forced to let the game continue.

Things like this only happen to Tennessee. The 10-second runoff rule exists in football because North Carolina used a penalty at the end of the 2010 Music City Bowl to stop the clock and kick a game-winning field goal. In that same bowl game a decade later, the Vols clearly scored a touchdown in overtime against Purdue only to be told that, too, was unreviewable — also after a lengthy review — because the call on the field was the runner's forward progress was stopped.

The Lady Vols still have a chance to win this, but if UCLA ends Tennessee's season after that bullshit, somebody has to be fired. I guess we just don't have any rules in society, anymore.

UPDATE: justice is served.