Texassports Game Recap

Preston Clark ended the Texas comeback in the ninth inning with a first-pitch, walk-off grand slam after the Longhorns entered the inning down 10-6. Brandon Loy also helped the cause, clearing the bases earlier in the inning with a double and helping to pick up Taylor Jungmann, who struggled in his 3.1 innings, giving up six earned runs. Kevin Keyes added his second two-run homer in as many days -- let the kid hit!

A gutsy performance by the Longhorns after the emotionally and physically draining game last night against Boston College. It remains to be seen whether this team has the offense to make it to or succeed in Omaha, but as much as the three previous editions of Texas baseball missed "it," this Longhorns team has proven the last two nights that it has "it" in spades.

Texas baseball fans can be proud again.

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If we stopped giving up outs on mostly unsuccessful sacrifice bunts, we might have the offense to do it. But I digress……….Phenomenal win, especially those 8 runs we scored in the one inning in which we didn’t try to make outs on purpose.

by billyzane on May 31, 2009 11:53 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

This sounds unappreciative....

I don’t mean it that way. I was jumping around my apartment with my laptop in hand on Loy’s double and again on Clark’s walk off. Absolutely amazing game and the Horns just feel like they have that magic this year.

But seriously Augie….stop bunting.

by billyzane on Jun 1, 2009 12:05 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I'm with you

1. Stop Bunting
2. Stop Bunting Keyes when you don’t prematurely pinch hit for him (Motherf#$%#$!!!!!)
3. Stop Bunting

"From the waist down, Earl Campbell has the biggest legs I have ever seen on a running back." -John Madden

by run Bevo run on Jun 1, 2009 7:10 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Most epic baseball game of my life

i am so glad i went…though the 3rd and 4th inning were excruciating…

by The Mack Attack on Jun 1, 2009 2:14 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Amen

Bunting is so aggressively idiotic that it pains me to think that a clearly intelligent, lifelong baseball man like Augie still doesn’t “get it” — at least where that area of the game is concerned. It’s amazing to think how good this team would be if it didn’t make so many outs intentionally.

Still. We should save the complaining until it actually costs us something, I guess. Great weekend, and let’s de-horn those Frogs.

by JudenSmithFan on Jun 1, 2009 3:08 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Would love for 40AS to weigh in on this topic

Was extremely frustrating when we kept running out of outs with men on base inning after inning after inning. But then this approach has been so successful in the past few seasons that’s it’s hard to argue with Augie’s approach.

Although I must say all of us who were following the game on Saturday were confused about Augie taking Keyes out with the game still not in hand. I’ve not seen any of our baseball experts commenting on that in the hours since the marathon concluded.

Still a Blaine Irby fan

by patienthornsfan on Jun 1, 2009 5:44 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

I'm not as negative on some of the bunting as most people here seem to be

but I cannot agree with bunting with two strikes – unless this is the NL and the pitcher is up and cannot swing a bat to save his life.

by Texas Wahoo on Jun 1, 2009 9:03 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

I actually disagree.

If you’re going to bunt, then bunt. Hitting with 2 strikes is really freaking hard, especially if you’ve been trying to bunt for the entire at-bat rather than swing and you don’t have many balls in the count either so the pitcher doesn’t have to throw you something over the plate.

As much as I think bunting is generally dumb, except in certain specific strategic situations, I think that if your goal is to get someone over to the next base rather than swing away and take your chances, then you should realize that you have 3 chances to do it. If you want someone to swing away with 2 strikes because you don’t want them to bunt foul and strike out, then you trust them more to (a) not strike out swinging or looking, (b) not ground into a double play, and © not get out some other way that doesn’t advance the runner (keep in mind, you want them to do this starting out with 2 strikes against them!), than you do to just get a damn bunt on the ground. If that’s the case, then advancing that runner isn’t THAT important and you probably should have had them swinging away to begin with.

by billyzane on Jun 1, 2009 9:56 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

The unique thing about baseball

You can run 40-70 plays in a football game. You can have 50-80 shots in a basketball game. Baseball, you get 27 outs to win a game. Bunting can be a great tool, but it should never be used at the extent UT uses it.

"From the waist down, Earl Campbell has the biggest legs I have ever seen on a running back." -John Madden

by run Bevo run on Jun 1, 2009 9:58 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs