Kavares Tears watched.
The Tennessee baseball outfielder watched a fastball zip up and in toward his head. He watched a breaking ball do the same. Then Tears swung and watched the ball rise and keep rising until it cleared the left-field wall at Vanderbilt's Hawkins Field and landed on top of neighboring Memorial Gymnasium.
Tears raised his right arm, a deficit flipped to a lead and No. 1 Tennessee (41-9, 18-7 SEC) on its way to a five-run eighth inning and its eighth straight win against the Commodores (33-17, 11-14). The Vols dropped Vanderbilt 8-4 in the series opener Friday.
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