A group of 24 Nebraska baseball players got stuck in an elevator
On Tuesday, one day before challenging the hottest baseball team on planet Earth, the University of Illinois Fighting Illini in the first round of the Big Ten conference tournament, members of the Nebraska baseball team — 24 of them to be exact — unwisely tested the capacity of a hotel elevator in Minneapolis.
That decision resulted in the ultimate test of their collective sanity as the elevator became stuck mid-ride, trapping all 24 players the cramped quarters for what had to feel like eternity.
Well just had 24 teammates stuck in an elevator….needless to say you can cross that off the bucket list!!!
— Colton Earl Howell (@CoLtoNoscopyyyy) May 19, 2015
Yeah, if that was on the bucket list, the sanity test may have been failed before it was started.
Based on the timeline of the tweets, the ordeal only lasted right around 15 minutes. Senior catcher Tanner Lubach served as the embedded reporter, sending a series of video tweets which updated the social media of their condition.
Status: Unfazed and perhaps a little too excited to be dangling helplessly from a cable.
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lang=”en” dir=”ltr”>We survived. Lesson learned. pic.twitter.com/54LzRRcTCo— Tanner Lubach (@TannerLubach) May 19, 2015
The Huskers emerged unscathed and perhaps more unified than ever for their matchup against llinois on Wednesday night at Target Field. They even jumped out to a two-run lead in the sixth inning, but Illinois’ resilience proved too much again as they wrapped up a 3-2 win to extend their conference record winning streak 27.
As for the Huskers ordeal, it reminds us a little bit of an incident involving Scott Kazmir when he was pitching for the Cleveland Indians in 2013. The Indians were visiting Minnesota in September when Kazmir became trapped in an elevator at the team’s hotel actually spent 90 minutes alone and trapped 27 floors above ground level.
Like the Huskers, Kazmir came out of it no worse for the wear, but it makes us wonder which incident would actually be more uncomfortable: Trapped alone for 90 minutes, or trapped with 23 other college dude for 15. Coin flip?
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