Texas Baseball Loses to TCU; Do-or-Die Saturday & Sunday
by 40AS on Jun 11, 2010 4:50 PM CDT
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PrintTexas ran into a buzzsaw with a ridiculous-looking hat today, as TCU freshman hurler Matt Purke frustrated Longhorn hitters all day. The word "frustrated" is particularly apt, as the story of the day was Texas batters getting ahead in the count against Purke to the tune of 2-0 or even 3-0 only to fall victim to strikeouts.
Cole Green and Stayton Thomas were solid, as holding a very good college baseball team with their aluminum bats to 3 runs in a game of this magnitude is often enough to win. Not today, though, and Texas will now try to force a Game Three with Taylor Jungmann presumably on the hill in Austin. TCU will be the "home" team for the 12:00 Noon CDT start on ESPN. Part of the country will get Vandy-Florida State on ESPN instead; if you find that is the case in your area, you can catch Texas-TCU on ESPN3. The USA-England World Cup game does not actually kick off until 1:30, so unless you really want to see all the pregame coverage you have an hour an a half before you enter Channel Flipping Hell.
No doubt this was a tough game to watch, but keep in mind that Texas' most recent national championship in 2005 came after a Game One loss to Ole Miss in the super regional. The Longhorns have won two games in a row many, many times this season and there's no reason to believe they can't do so again this weekend.
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Anyone got a picture of Purke's hat?
Been reading about it all afternoon in the game thread.
Sports is man's joke on God, You see, God says to man, 'I've created a universe where it seems like everything matters, where you'll have to grapple with life and death and in the end you'll die anyway, and it won't really matter.' So man says to God, 'Oh, yeah? Within your universe we're going to create a sub-universe called sports, one that absolutely doesn't matter, and we'll follow everything that happens in it as if it were life and death.'" - Sam Kellerman
Thanks, looks great.
I know someone mentioned earlier that OU beat TCU twice during the regular season, but I wonder if either of those victories were against their best 3 starters? I know they were both weekday games, one of them was directly after the sooners had been swept by Texas.
Sports is man's joke on God, You see, God says to man, 'I've created a universe where it seems like everything matters, where you'll have to grapple with life and death and in the end you'll die anyway, and it won't really matter.' So man says to God, 'Oh, yeah? Within your universe we're going to create a sub-universe called sports, one that absolutely doesn't matter, and we'll follow everything that happens in it as if it were life and death.'" - Sam Kellerman
They used Paul Gerish who is a midweek starter in both games and the games werer spaced out 2 weeks apart
TCU has never lost to the same team in a weekend series back to back
All new things are just old things happening to new people.
So in other words TCU will lose the next two.
Sports is man's joke on God, You see, God says to man, 'I've created a universe where it seems like everything matters, where you'll have to grapple with life and death and in the end you'll die anyway, and it won't really matter.' So man says to God, 'Oh, yeah? Within your universe we're going to create a sub-universe called sports, one that absolutely doesn't matter, and we'll follow everything that happens in it as if it were life and death.'" - Sam Kellerman
Most likely were going to get Steven Maxwell tomorrow hes 11-1 2.51 ERA 97 inn 8 7K's
or will get Kyle Winkler whos 11-1 3.05 ERA 106.1 inn 84 K’s.
So basically were going to have to work our way to Omaha
The K per inn ratio looks a lot better for us with these two
than what Purke brought, 122K’s – 95 1/3 inn.
Sports is man's joke on God, You see, God says to man, 'I've created a universe where it seems like everything matters, where you'll have to grapple with life and death and in the end you'll die anyway, and it won't really matter.' So man says to God, 'Oh, yeah? Within your universe we're going to create a sub-universe called sports, one that absolutely doesn't matter, and we'll follow everything that happens in it as if it were life and death.'" - Sam Kellerman
This was a tough game to stomach by far
I was having flashbacks of Scott Gorgen on the hill after the 1st inn. If you don’t remember him he pitched for UC Irvine and he held us to about 3 hits and shut us out. Other than that it’s going to be a tough road considering that there pitching is just as good as ours. There Batters hit a little bit better than ours Statistically. Tomorrow we need to get the bats hitting early and often to keep them on there toes.
Sad. Predictable
given the pitching matchup. Honestly, I think Augie evaluated the team’s chances against Purke and figured Jungmann could definitely win Game 2 and the home field and our depth would be decisive in Game 3. I don’t think he wrote off Game 1 — I just think he felt Jungmann, a bit shy on rest, might not be at his best and he’d have needed to be almost perfect to beat Purke.
We dropped Game 1 at Oxford five years ago and won out, including Omaha. We dropped game 1 to UH in 2002 and won out, including Omaha.
I would of pitched Green aswell. Problem is there Starters are just as good as ares
This isnt a typical series where u lose Friday and the Bats come alive Sat and Sun because your opponent already wasted there best Pitcher. Look at TCU like playing ourselves right now its a fucken chess match you have to strike first and often
We have to be on our A game tomorrow
TCU is on a 11 game winning streak and has only lost 2 straight games twice the whole season. HOOK’EM HORNS
So who would you want up when it counts
AVG GP/GS AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SLG K OB% SB-ATT FLD%
.244 55/45 164 21 40 9 3 2 17 .372 51 .282 6/9 .989
.344 17/6 32 10 11 2 2 0 4 .531 9 .462 0/1 .913
.288 27/19 73 15 21 7 0 3 20 .507 18 .361 1/1 .972
1. Rowe 2. Weymouth 3. Walsh
I am just going to say it
With TJ obviously getting the nod tomorrow, if we are playing on Sunday.. any possibility we see Chance in a former role?
Why?
Why not let Workman get the start and if he gets in trouble early let Ruffin come in for an extended relief effort, especially if TJ goes the distance tomorrow. I could easily see him coming in in the 5th inning or so and lasting till the 9th if he hasn’t pitched all weekend.
Sports is man's joke on God, You see, God says to man, 'I've created a universe where it seems like everything matters, where you'll have to grapple with life and death and in the end you'll die anyway, and it won't really matter.' So man says to God, 'Oh, yeah? Within your universe we're going to create a sub-universe called sports, one that absolutely doesn't matter, and we'll follow everything that happens in it as if it were life and death.'" - Sam Kellerman
Sorry, hope I'm not being misinterpreted...
I’m not saying I’m necessarily in favor of the idea (I voted keep him where he is in 40AS (?) recent poll)
I’m just saying in a weird way it feels like the elephant in the room, being that he was our Friday-nighter/ace last year and he was just drafted.
I like your idea though; Do you know who TCU would potentially throw against us on Sunday? I don’t know much about their pitching but I’m sure it drops off more on Sundays than ours does.
Steven Maxwell or Kyle Winkler, both 11-1. TCU’s pitching is about as monstrous as Texas’.
by HawkeyedFrog on Jun 11, 2010 11:55 PM CDT up reply actions
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