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Sunday - February 18, 2007

Game 10: Stanford at Texas

Sorry for not posting yesterday after the game. I just forgot about it! Texas beat Stanford 5-2. Adrian Alaniz went 7+ innings to get the win. He allowed 1 earned run on 4 hits with 3 walks and 8 strikeouts. He threw 115 pitches by my count. Things looked a little shaky early and I wasn't sure he'd make it to the 5 innings he needed to be awarded the win but he dug down deep and shut Stanford down. At the end of the 6th, he'd thrown 95 pitches and I was surprised to see him come back for the 7th but he had a 10-pitch 1-2-3 inning. He came back in the 8th and gave up a single followed by a walk. So, on came Randy Boone. Randy hit the first batter he saw (weird play...I'm not sure what happened) to load the bases with no outs. The next batter grounded out to 2b (rbi). The next two went down on strikeouts. He gave up another run in the 9th but that was it for the Stanford offense.

I'm not sure what the temperature was at the Dell Diamond but it was quite chilly in the stands. The main reason? A very stiff wind blowing straight in from lf. That wind wrecked havoc with all balls hit high into the air. Thankfully for Texas fans, the Stanford players struggled with it a lot more than the Texas players. Texas got at least 3 or 4 hits that would have been fairly routine fly outs if those balls hadn't been batted around by the wind. On one play in the 2nd, Kyle Russell hit a sky high ball that was headed to shallow lf. It ended up blowing back toward the infield and both the shortstop and third baseman lost the blowing ball in the sun. It fell harmlessly to the dirt near the baseline between 2b and 3b. Bradley Suttle, who was at 1b when Kyle hit the ball, scampered to 2b. The Stanford shortstop thought he had a chance to get Bradley out and threw the ball toward 2b. The throw was way off-line, though, and went into the rf corner. Bradley took off and scored easily. Kyle wound up at 3b and scored on the next play on a wind-aided double hit by Chance Wheeless to lf.

Here's hoping the Horns complete the sweep this afternoon. I will miss quite a bit of the game...maybe all of it. And, sadly, it won't be on the radio so I probably won't have much to report about it. Ah well...that's life.

Posted by Joanna at 10:45 AM