Baseball Takes on Texas Tech

by 40AS on Mar 27, 2009 4:00 PM CDT in Texas Longhorns Baseball

It'll be Texas vs. Texas Tech as the Horns look to get back on track in Big XII play. Last weekend was...not the best. Some things to think about this weekend:

Kevin Keyes is swinging an insanely hot bat since being sat two weekends ago. Let's keep that up.
Brandon Loy to SS appears to be permanent for the time being. He plays great defensively and is starting to swing the bat again.
The offense. C'mon guys, score some runs.

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PROBABLE PITCHING MATCHUPS
Friday, March 27, 2009 - 6 p.m. Central
Texas: RHP Chance Ruffin (3-2, 2.68 ERA)
Texas Tech: RHP Miles Morgan (1-3, 6.23 ERA)

Saturday, March 28, 2009 - 2 p.m. Central
Texas: RHP Brandon Workman (3-1, 1.34 ERA)
Texas Tech: RHP A.J. Ramos (2-1, 2.78 ERA)

Sunday, March 29, 2009 - 1 p.m. Central
Texas: RHP Cole Green (2-0, 2.37 ERA)
Texas Tech: TBA

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Woohoo! Baseball!

Is it too much to ask for a baseball sweep of Tech and a national championship in swimming/diving this weekend?

by hornbone on Mar 27, 2009 5:41 PM CDT reply actions

Sounds good to me

by Texas Wahoo on Mar 27, 2009 6:32 PM CDT up reply actions

Starting with some more of that leaving runners on base

We are amazingly good at that

by Texas Wahoo on Mar 27, 2009 6:35 PM CDT reply actions

5 run 3rd - just what the doctor ordered!

by Texas Wahoo on Mar 27, 2009 7:05 PM CDT reply actions

5-4 Texas after 3.5

Runner scored on an error by Tant and then we threw a guy out at the plate.

by Texas Wahoo on Mar 27, 2009 7:33 PM CDT reply actions

Still 5-4 after 5.5

Ruffin is getting hit, but limiting the damage thusfar.

by Texas Wahoo on Mar 27, 2009 7:55 PM CDT reply actions

9-4 after a strange 7th

lots of errors, balk, infield hits, etc.

by Texas Wahoo on Mar 27, 2009 8:27 PM CDT reply actions

Texas takes it 9-4

Wood closes it out with 2 scoreless innings.

by Texas Wahoo on Mar 27, 2009 8:46 PM CDT reply actions

Awesome

Way to wake the bats up Augie!

Get off your knees Greg, you're blowin' the game.

by kriess on Mar 27, 2009 9:09 PM CDT reply actions

Thanks for the updates, Texas Wahoo

Glad to see the bats woke up

Box score says 9-5 final with Wood giving up one run.

Tech had 5 errors…yikes.

by 40AS on Mar 27, 2009 10:52 PM CDT reply actions

I heard Augie on the radio the other day

He said that he employs “total offense” in baseball, so that the players don’t put so much pressure on themselves to get a hit. He wants to make hitting a smaller part of the offense (at least in the players minds) so that they can focus on what they’re doing and not just getting a hit. Makes sense, zen master. Very cool to have him as our coach.

by Horn Brain on Mar 27, 2009 11:12 PM CDT reply actions

2 big innings

The 5 run third inning and a 4 run seventh inning did the trick. The third inning was exactly what we’ve all been pining for: three hits to start the inning and then a gapper by Cameron Rupp to get a big crooked number on the board. The seventh inning was nice for Texas, but had to be agonizing for Tech fans. It seemed like the Horns never got the ball out of the infield, but a folly of Red Raider errors allowed another big inning.

Not a great night for Chance Ruffin, but luckily he was helped by the bats and Austin Wood. Wood came in and got the last seven outs fairly quietly, scattering a few hits and giving up a who-cares run in the ninth.

All in all, a nice win to get back on track in Big 12 play. Game 2 starts at 2 pm this afternoon.

Hook ’Em Horns

by Sweed4Heisman on Mar 28, 2009 9:40 AM CDT reply actions