Trey Frahm was back in the crowd at the Women’s College World Series on Thursday night, and the striped overalls came with him. After Nebraska beat Arkansas on a walk-off home run in the 10th inning, Frahm sat in the stands in the same red and white striped overalls he wore during the Super Regional and repeated a modified version of the gesture that had made him a talking point a week earlier.
The moment mattered because it came on the same night Nebraska’s season kept moving forward, with the Huskers outlasting Arkansas in 10 innings before advancing to play Alabama. Frahm, whose wife Jordy Frahm threw a career-high 10 innings, was hard to miss in the crowd. He had already been in the front row on the third base line for Nebraska’s entire Super Regional, where he was ejected a few outs before the final strikeout.
Frahm had tried to frame that earlier flashpoint as out of character. He said he typically remains calm during his wife’s starts, called the Super Regional the exception and said he does not usually get that rowdy. That explanation made Thursday’s scene more notable, not less, because he was seen making a modified crotch-chop gesture again during a national postseason game after already being tossed from one.
The reason for his ejection last week has not been made clear, though a televised crotch chop may have been behind it. What is clear is that Frahm’s presence has become part of Nebraska’s postseason storyline, even as Jordy Bahl continues to be the center of attention on the field. The former Oklahoma star, who won back-to-back national championships before transferring home to Nebraska in 2024, was named player of the year and has now carried the Huskers deeper into the bracket.
That leaves one simple question hanging over the next round: whether Frahm keeps showing up in the same seat and whether Nebraska’s run, now headed into a matchup with Alabama, keeps drawing the same kind of sideline attention that followed it through Thursday night.
