Baseball Falls to Houston 1-0, Game Three Open Thread
by 40AS on Mar 7, 2010 7:59 AM CST
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PrintBrandon Workman gave up a leadoff triple on his first pitch followed by a wild pitch on his second. He then pitched 8 spectacular innings giving up 3 hits and nothing else. Texas' offense however only was able to muster 3 hits of their own and no runs in a 1-0 loss. 10 games in and it's a familiar story: great pitching not being met by great hitting. In a sign that Augie may be looking for answers JUCO transfer Paul Montalbano got a two out pinch hit in the top of the 9th and very nearly tied the game if not for a tremendous defensive play by Houston's shortstop. Either way, it's baseball, crap happens, and you just have to move on and forget about it. The answer to their hitting woes has clearly not been moving to a ballpark that's even more cavernous except for a short porch in left field.
Texas plays Missouri today at 11 AM in a nonconference game. A win would give the Horns a "series" win for the weekend, which is really all you're looking for every weekend. We suspect Cole Green will be on the mound for Texas. You can watch the game online for free here. Time to take out that live rooster and break whatever's been cursing the Texas bats.
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Interesting comments from Brandon Loy yesterday
Said the team was not playing with heart or hard work. Ironically, we were in the midst of an embarrassing series against Missouri 2 years ago when a freshman pitcher named Chance Ruffin asserted himself as a leader and gave his teammates a good, swift kick in the ass on the bus before the final game of the weekend. And it was enough to pull them out of their funk and salvage one win from an otherwise miserable weekend. Wonder if Loy is saying the same things in the locker room that he’s saying to the press.
Interesting
Certainly not as desperate as we were in 2008 though. I think Etier and Kevin Lusson are in danger of losing jobs. Loy, Keyes, Rowe, Shepherd and Rupp are definitely safe.
Actually the home team
We’re in the top of 2nd right now.
Missouri had a fly out to center, single to left, and a double play ground out in the top of the 1st.
Yeah, a few minutes early
Green only threw 6 pitches, so the first half of the inning was over in a blink.
Keyes smokes a single off the box in left
Then Rupp caught going to third. Just an awful break, if he hadn’t hit it as hard Rupp would’ve been easily at second
Walla singles to left, Rowe bunts him over
1 out, runner on 2nd
Kyle Lusson grounds out to 3rd
Runner on 2nd, 2 outs
No kidding
The strikeouts are getting old. Guess we don’t have anyone else who can play 3rd base. Same thing with Etier at 2nd.
I think they'll both have short leashes going forward
2B isn’t the toughest position to play defensively
Kevin Lusson strikes out swinging
2-0 Tigers, top 3
9-1-2 up for Missouri
Good morning folks
Just joining you. I saw the third run but to be down 3 runs so early doesn’t bode well. Has it been good hits by mizzou or poor fielding by Texas? What is wrong with our offense lately?
Texas has hit the ball hard
Keyes smoked a ball too hard that led to Rupp getting thrown out, then last inning Mizzou put on a hit and run that had the ball go right at the spot Loy had vacated
They're hitting the ball well
We’ve gotten some hits today too. Just some bad base running so far.
Groundout to Etier ends the inning
Then he walks to start Bot 3.
Shepherd not bunting, singles to left
Rupp up
Flies out to 1B
Keyes singles in Etier, should be 3-2 if Loy had gotten the bunt down but I’ll take 3-1
Keyes smoked it right off the pitcher
Another break for Mizzou, although also a break for Texas…bases loaded nobody out
Now it's "Montabello"
Come on Keith. You can read, can’t you?
Second out was identical to the third
Etier getting a lot of practice
Green still out there
Groundout to Etier, double down the left field line
Getting close to Ruffin time?
Ruffin walks the bases loaded
Single scores a run…7-4
Grounder up the middle, great play by Loy to get one out. 7-5
is he really closer material?
"Stats are for losers. I like winning games." ~ Will Muschamp
""I always felt like, and I paid a price for it, that it didn't seem right for one guy to bring me down." ~ The Tyler Rose
by Mulliganville on Mar 7, 2010 1:16 PM CST up reply actions
Nice game Horns.
Good to see some offense! Enjoy the rest of your day, Gentlemen. Let’s go Lady Longhorns.
Hook’em
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