Arkansas coach Dave Van Horn praises Razorback offense after dominant showing in CWS

Arkansas got off to a blistering start in Omaha. The Razorbacks Molly Whopped the best team left in the field, no. 2 nationally seeded Stanford, 17-2 to move on to the winner’s match on their half of the College World Series bracket. Following the obscene performance at the plate, Razorbacks coach Dave Van Horn obviously had nothing but praise for his offense in the postgame press conference.

“Hitting’s really hard,” he explained. Though, I guess, not on Saturday. “Sometimes you just go through a period where it’s not going your way. Their team’s pitching well. Maybe you’re a little tired. There’s a lot of things that play into it,” Van Horn said.

When often times it feels like every force in the natural world is going against your hitters, it feels amazing when the Red Sea parts and the offense comes together in 17-run fashion. Everything has gone wrong on some days for the Hogs over the course of the season. But Saturday was sort of a reverse Murphy’s Law. Everything that could go right did go right.

Especially for Robert Moore. Fun fact: the only athlete in Arkansas history to earn a spot on the Freshman All-American team two years in a row. He reached base on five straight at-bats and was a massive contributor to the 17-run total.

“Robert, great day,” Van Horn briefly recapped of the two-time freshman’s stellar performance. Three walks, a double and a single is pretty spectacular work all things considered. “Even his groundout advanced two runners with no outs. So it was a very productive at-bat,” which Van Horn says is “what w’ere trying to do right now.”

“If we can keep him going, it’s big,” Van Horn said of Moore’s production given that he’s also a switch hitter. “And you can go on down the lineup a little bit more,” he added, promoting just how deep this Rzaorbacks lineup is when Moore and everybody are hitting like they did vs. Stanford.

Arkansas will play Ole Miss on Monday after both SEC West schools won their openers. Winner of that game moves on to the Final Four. And is in pole position to make the championship series.