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Thursday - April 5, 2007

Game 36: Texas at Kansas

I wasn't able to listen to much of the game today. I tried. But, I was working and it's just tough to concentrate on the game when you're trying to concentrate on other things. It's particularly tough when you have to leave your office and you can't hear it. Which was exactly the situation with Nick Peoples hit his first home run of the year! Dang him. Couldn't he have waited just another couple of minutes? I walked past Esther's office and she grinned at me. And, then, with a wee bit of neener-neener in her voice, told me I'd missed Nicky's home run. Damn her. And, the student who needed help with his computer! Grrrrr. Ah well. Work interferes with all the important stuff, eh? Heh heh.

Anyway...Texas scored 1 in the first to start things off nicely. The Jayhawks scored 2 in the 2nd to take the lead. Texas countered with 2 in the 3rd to take the lead for good. And, barely looked back. James Russell started for the Horns, threw the first 6 innings, and got the win. He gave up 4 runs on 5 hits (3 singles, 1 double, 1 home run) with 2 walks, 1 hit batter, 1 wild pitch, and 7 strikeouts. Keith Shinaberry went in for the 7th and threw a nice 1-2-3 inning. However, in the 8th, things did not go as well. He allowed a single, a walk, and hit a batter to load the bases with no outs. The 4th batter hit a sac fly to cf and Randy Boone replaced Keith on the mound. Keith ended up pitching 1.1 innings and gave up 2 runs on 1 hit with a walk and a hit batter. Randy pitched the final 1.2 innings. He gave up no runs on 1 hit with 0 walks and 1 strikeout.

On the offensive side of things, Nick hit the only home run of the day for the Horns. He went 3-for-5 and was a triple short of hitting for the cycle. Alas. He scored 2 runs. Jordan Danks went 2-for-5 with 2 runs batted in. Chance Wheeless went 2-for-6 with 2 doubles and 4 runs scored. Huh? That's what the boxscore says! So, I went through the play-by-play to find that he: (1) reached on a fielder's choice and scored, (2) doubled and scored, (3) doubled and scored again, (4) reached on a fielder's choice and did not score; (5) reached on a fielder's choice and scored; and (6) flew out to cf. Kyle Russell went 2-for-6 with a triple, 2 runs scored, and 2 runs batted in. Bradley Suttle went 1-for-3 with a run scored and 3 batted in. Preston Clark went 1-for-3 with a run scored and 1 batted in. Travis Tucker went 0-for-4 with a run batted in. Josh Prince went 2-for-4 with a run batted in. Kyle Lusson started as the dh today and it appears he did not have a very good day. He went 0-for-2. Chais Fuller pinch hit and went 0-for-0 with a sac bunt. Michael Demperio pinch ran for Chais and scored a run. He stayed in for an at-bat (!) but went 0-for-1.

So, Horns win 11-6. And, starts the series off on the right foot. Hook 'em!

By the by, I haven't included the line lately so here 'tis for today's game:

																			R	H	E
Texas			1	0	2			0	2	1			0	5	0		-		11	14	1
Kansas			0	2	0			0	2	0			0	2	0		-		6	7	2

Posted by Joanna at 6:42 PM