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Tuesday - April 18, 2006

Game 39: Baylor at Texas

I can't believe I didn't post about Saturday's game on Saturday. I just forgot about it. I got an email message yesterday asking about it and meant to post last night but got side-tracked. Ah well...here I am! I have to admit that with the distance of time, the game's a bit of a fog to me and I don't have my score book handy so I'm going by memory. Texas won 5-4 and completed another Big 12 sweep! Excellent. Texas scored first. Then had to come back. Then had to come back again. Luckily, they stayed ahead at that point. Kyle McCulloch got the win on a rather short 5-inning outing. Kenn Kasparek pitched some relief, as did Kyle Walker. So, all the Kyles on the team got to play. And, Austin Wood picked up another save.

The scariest part of the game came in the bottom of the 7th. I'd just gone down to say hi to my friend Liz so was closer to the action than usual. Jordan Danks was on 1st (I think he walked). He took off as Drew Stubbs hit a ball on the lf side of the field. For a second, it looked like the ball would be caught in the air so Jordan turned sharply back toward 1b. But, he twisted his ankle and fell awkwardly. He was nearly to 2b so just lunged at the bag and collapsed...in obvious agony. After a few minutes, he was helped off the field by Chance Wheeless and Kyle Russell. Turns out he's having surgery today (link). He's got a fractured right ankle and will have some pins inserted into his ankle during the operation. He'll probably miss about 6 weeks and hopes to be back in time for the Big 12 tournament.

Posted by Joanna at 6:11 PM