Georgia homers hammer Texas A&M to win SEC baseball series

For the second straight day, the No. 21 Texas A&M baseball team was hammered by the nation's leader in home runs as the Aggies fell 8-2 to No. 5 Georgia on Saturday in Southeastern Conference play at Blue Bell Park.

Georgia hit three home runs in Friday's 9-4 series-opening win and doubled that total in game two of the series with six home runs. The Bulldogs entered the series with 69 homers across 22 games, while the next closest was Vanderbilt with 52 homers.

"It wasn't great," A&M head coach Michael Earley said of his team's performance. "I mean we got pummeled ... [we] didn't do much offensively and they did, so not a great performance at all. They just flat-out beat us in every aspect of the game."

On Saturday, Georgia's first seven runs all came via the long ball. Henry Allen ended that streak with an RBI single in the top of the sixth with two outs to cap off a four-run inning.

Five Bulldogs combined for those seven home runs. Jordy Oriach, Tre Phelps, Daniel Jackson, Ryan Black and Kolby Branch all homered with Branch, Georgia's No. 8 hitter, homering twice as he was 2 for 4 with three RBIs and scored two runs.

Branch's solo shot in the top of the fourth chased starter Weston Moss. The senior later had a hand in helping chase Gavin Lyons who relieved Moss. Branch's two-run shot in the sixth was followed by a lineout and then a solo home run by Black to end Lyons' day.

"They're just putting good swings on pitches and certain counts, locations, not always in that count, but honestly hats off to them right now I mean when the ball's in the zone, they're hammering them," Earley said.

The sixth inning was especially deflating as A&M was within striking distance until then. Georgia (20-4, 4-1) had already hit four home runs to that point but all four were solo shots scattered between the second, third and fourth innings.

A&M (17-5, 1-4) trailed 4-1 going into the bottom of the fifth and trimmed the lead down even further as Chris Hacopian's RBI groundout with one out scored Gavin Grahovac.

Caden Sorrell had A&M's only other RBI as he doubled to score Boston Kellner in the bottom of the third.

A&M used four pitchers on the day with Grant Cunningham being the only one to not give up a run. Cunningham closed the game with 3 1/3 scoreless innings and allowed just one hit, one walk and struck out two.

Cunningham's second straight day facing the Bulldogs was much better than the first as he gave up four hits, two runs, walked one and struck out two in his only inning Friday.

"I think, obviously, trusting that the battle is already won and I'm saved by Lord Jesus Christ," Cunningham said. "I had a conversation with [pitching coach Jason Kelly] after the game last night and it was just about trusting myself and getting back to me. And I feel like that's been a recurring theme over the last two years now. It's been hard, it's not been what was anticipated coming in. But the curveball, for example, I threw, I never practiced that, I never throw it in practice or bullpens, that's just one that I went out and trusted it. I think [it also comes down to] just [my] teammates and the support from JK."

The Aggies will look to avoid being swept in Sunday's series finale. First pitch is set for 3 p.m.

"I thought today was the first day all year we haven't responded to any sort of adversity and we got to do that," Earley said. "This league's tough. You play 30 games in this league - we've got 25 of them left to play - you got to keep grinding, you got to stay in it. Never want to get swept especially at home and you got to win some series period, so tomorrow's a huge game for us and an opportunity for us to respond again. This is a really good baseball team, and I have no doubt in my mind that they'll do that."

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This story was originally published March 22, 2026 at 9:42 AM.