College World Series 2015, Virginia vs. Vanderbilt: Time, TV schedule and live stream

Virginia skipper Brian O’Connor has cobbled his pitching staff together for two games, using a freshman position player, an over-taxed reliever, duct tape and sheer coaching ingenuity to split the national championship series against the most talented team in college baseball. Finally, in the all-or-nothing rubber match to decide who lifts the trophy, O’Connor gets to lean on a sure thing.

Brandon Waddell, the most experienced postseason pitcher in school history, will make his fifth career College World Series start in Game 3 against Vanderbilt on Wednesday night. All four of those previous starts were wins, including a complete-game against these very same Commodores in Game 2 of last year’s national championship series. Last week, he threw seven innings in a win over Florida, then came back on five days rest to punch out the heavily-favored Gators again and send his team to the finals.

Josh Sborz, the big-armed reliever who threw 77 relief pitches to help nail down Virginia’s series-extending, 3-0 win on Tuesday, won’t be available on the back end in Game 3. But the Hoos will have Nathan Kirby. The ace of the staff before going down with an injury to his throwing arm back in April, Kirby returned to the mound last week in a start against the Gators. He looked rusty and lasted less than three innings, but he could be valuable in short relief or a close situation on Wednesday.

On the mound for Vandy will be Walker Buehler, the menacing first-round MLB Draft pick. If there’s one thing that can kill Virginia’s momentum from a surprise Game 2 win, it’s the right arm of Buehler, who shut down TCU last Friday to put the Dores into the finals.