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Sunday - April 2, 2006

Game 32: Texas at Oklahoma

In a very peculiar game, Texas lost at Oklahoma today, 7-12. How often does a team hit 5 home runs and lose a game? I'd bet the odds of that happening are pretty low. The line:

																			R	H	E
Texas			1	0	0			0	1	1			3	0	1		-		7	10	1
Oklahoma			3	0	0			7	0	2			0	0	x		-		12	12	1

'Twas ugly. I admit to falling asleep during the latter half of the game. So I missed the point where both benches were apparently warned that one more hit batter would result in ejection of the pitcher. Which means I missed the part of the game where, I'm guessing, someone was intentionally plonked. That's really unusual in college ball. Anyway, Alaniz took the loss. He went 3.2 and gave up 9 runs (1 unearned) on 5 hits (how's that??? giving up walks and hitting batters with the bases loaded, that's how) with 4 walks, 2 hit batters, and 3 strikeouts.

The thing about the home runs is that all but one of them were solo shots. So, you don't score a lot of runs that way. Two of 'em were back-to-back. They were hit by Drew Stubbs and Kyle Russell, the first two batters faced by Ryan Mottern, which really must've made OU wonder about their decision to put him into the game. He only ended up giving up one more hit and run in the 2.1 innings he pitched, though. Weird game.

Texas remains atop the Big 12 leaderboard, despite the loss (thank you, Kansas):

	Big 12			Overall
	W	L	Pct.	W	L
Texas	6	2	.750	21	11
Nebraska	4	2	.667	20	5
Missouri	6	3	.667	16	11
Oklahoma State	3	3	.500	18	7
Oklahoma	3	3	.500	21	9
Texas Tech	4	4	.500	22	10
Baylor	4	5	.444	22	10
Kansas	4	5	.444	20	11
Kansas State	2	4	.333	20	5
Texas A&M	2	7	.222	18	13

Posted by Joanna at 7:54 PM