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Friday - April 11, 2008
A note for the record books
As best I can tell from looking through the Media Guide, tonight's 31 runs was the most ever given up by a Texas team. The previous record was 26 in a 17-26 loss to the Red Raiders in Lubbock. Note that the run total (43) is identical to the run total for this evening's loss.
I found two more games with 40+ run totals:
- Feb. 24, 1996: loss to UT-Arlington, 19-25 (44 runs). Texas won the next two games 18-6 (UT-Arlington) and 16-1 (Tarleton State) for a total of 53 runs scored by Texas in back-to-back-to-back games for an average of almost 18 runs a game. Wow.
- March 20, 1925: win over Southwestern 44-4 (48 runs). Insane, eh? 44 runs?
Of note, the 1896 records are incomplete, unverified, and unofficial so they're not included in Texas' all-time records. Entertainingly, there are two games listed that go to this discussion: Texas beat Manchaca 46-19 (65 runs, just shy of 9 runs an inning) and lost to Dime Box 32-35 (67 runs, just over 9 runs an inning). Also, entertainingly, Texas lost to Blind Institute 3-5. It's apparent that the team was not restricted to playing other colleges and universities at the time. But, the Blind Institute? One must imagine that the team was playing the staff at the school, eh? And, not actual blind students. Right?
Also for the record books (but not listed as far as I can tell): I'm guessing those 4 homeruns given up to Priday are a single-game record for Texas pitching. According to the Media Guide, five Texas players (David Chalk in 1969, Wendell Hibbett in 1976, David Denny in 1984, Brett Loeffler in 1997, and J.D. Reininger in 2002) have hit 3 homeruns in a game but none have hit 4.
Posted by Joanna at 11:50 PM