Tennessee Baseball announced via a social media post on Saturday that the Vols will be rocking their black Dark Mode uniforms for Game 2 of the series against Texas in Knoxville. The uniforms feature a black hat with the interlocking UT logo, a black jersey with large orange letters that spell out ‘VOLS’ across the chest, and white pants.
The Vols first debuted the Dark Mode uniforms on the diamond in May 2022. This came just a handful of months after Tennessee Football first broke out its black uniforms during the 2021 football season. After a handful of years of use, the Dark Mode uniforms have become an alternate fixture for football, men’s basketball, and baseball.
Tennessee even won Game 3 of the College World Series Finals while wearing the Dark Mode uniforms, placing the look in the all-time history books of Tennessee Athletics and college baseball as a whole.
In that mode.#GBO🍊 // #OTH pic.twitter.com/JZR6DoKAKA
— Tennessee Baseball (@Vol_Baseball) May 9, 2026
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Tennessee Baseball came out of the gates on fire with a 5-1 win over the No. 4 Longhorns on Friday night in Lindsey Nelson Stadium. Sophomore starting pitcher Tegan Kuhns led the way with 15 strikeouts in 7.0 innings pitched. He only allowed four hits and one earned run while tossing 113 total pitches in the process.
The Vols’ offense had the bats working early against the Longhorns. Tennessee put up three runs in the first two innings and then added some insurance with two more runs in the seventh inning. Texas scored its lone run on a solo home run in the eighth inning, but Tennessee was able to cruise to the finish line to pick up the series-opening win.
Tennessee will look to pick up the series victory during Game 2 on Saturday night in Knoxville at 6:00 p.m. ET. Senior pitcher Evan Blanco will be on the mound for the Vols against the Longhorns.
Stay tuned to Rocky Top Insider for live, on-site coverage of the game from Lindsey Nelson Stadium.
