Texas vs Texas Tech Game 3 Odds, Picks & Predictions for WCWS

• It’s a winner-take-all Game 3 in the Women’s College World Series between the Texas Tech Red Raiders and Texas Longhorns
• Both schools are seeking to win their first WCWS title
• Get my Texas Tech vs Texas Game 3 picks and predictions below

For the first time since 2021, the Women’s College World Series will go to a winner-take-all Game 3 between the Texas Tech Red Raiders and Texas Longhorns.

Both previous games were decided by a single run, with the sixth-ranked Longhorns taking the opener 2-1, and TTU winning a nail-biter on Thursday, hanging on for a 4-3 win.

A first-time Women’s College World Series champion will be crowned tonight. Action gets underway at 8pm ET from OGE Energy Field at Devon Park in Oklahoma City, with ESPN/ESPN+ providing coverage.

Texas Tech vs Texas Odds

The odds signify just how close the series is, with Texas Tech a slight -135 favorite on the moneyline and Texas a +115 underdog. The total is just 5.5 runs with the under favored at -125.

Odds as of June 6 at DraftKings. See the full list of DraftKings legal states. 

Texas Tech vs Texas Picks & Predictions

This has been a wild World Series already, and there’s still plenty more in store.

The Longhorns already know what they’re up against, as Texas Tech pitcher NiJaree Canady will get the call for her third straight start in this title series.

She’s been at the center of all the action, both good and bad.

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In Game 1, she was nursing a 1-0 lead into the sixth inning and dominating Texas. With two outs and two on, she tried to intentionally walk Rose Atwood, but her pitches were dangerously close to the strike zone. On a 3-0 count, Atwood swung and drove the ball to left, plating the tying and eventual winning run in the process.

Canady found redemption in Game 2, but it didn’t come without more late-game drama. Trailing by three in the final inning, Texas plated two runs and brought the potential winning run to the dish, but Canady struck out Kayden Henry to end the game and force the final-game showdown.

Canady went the distance for the second straight game, giving up six hits and striking out six. For the series, she has thrown 195 pitches, and has kept the Longhorns off balance at the dish.

Texas will have a fresher ace in the finale in Teagan Kavan, who watched much of Game 2 while Mac Morgan got the start. Morgan gave way to Cambria Salmon after two innings. Kavan eventually got the call in the sixth inning, but threw only 12 pitches.

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In the end, this one is going to come down to the slightest of margins. The Red Raiders have scored first in both games, and held leads late into both. For a few moments here and there, they might already be World Series champs.

Texas has mustered 10 hits on Canady over the first two games, but unlike Game 1, where they were held to just one hit and one hit batter through five innings, they touched her up for three hits in the first four innings of Game 2, before the late inning dramatics unfolded.

While she’s been outstanding, the weight of this series and the fatigue and emotion she’s pouring out does take its toll.

Texas also has the scar tissue of those previous two World Series losses, and perhaps have the fortitude to finally break through.

In the end, I think that’s what gets them past the heroics of Canady and into the winner’s circle.

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