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Sunday - April 6, 2008

Game 31: Texas at Oklahoma

Two days in a row: no errors for the Horns! They did get lots of hits and took advantage of Sooner errors to win the rubber game of the series 13-7. The line:

																			R	H	E
Texas			2	2	0			0	3	3			0	1	2		-		13	14	0
Oklahoma			0	5	0			0	0	1			0	0	1		-		7	8	3

I went out to my folks' house and we watched the CSTV Internet stream. Which worked pretty well until the top of the 9th. Then, the audio and video kept dropping out. The OU errors all happened in the 1st and 2nd innings, allowing Texas to jump out to a 4-0 lead. Riley Boening started for the Horns and got the first 4 batters he faced to ground out. He hit the 5th batter (ever so slightly) and then the wheels fell off. Riley followed the hit batter by giving up a single, a walk, and then 3 more singles. At that point, Brandon Workman went to the mound. He coaxed ground outs out of the next two batters to end the inning. OU scored 5. Ouch.

Neither team managed to score in the 3rd or 4th but Texas put three on the board in the 5th and another three in the 6th. In the 5th, Travis Tucker singled, Jordan Danks doubled, Russell Moldenhauer singled (2 rbi), Brandon Belt walked, Kyle Russell singled (bases loaded), and Preston Clark walked (rbi). OU changed pitchers (sent Mottern to the mound) and he struck out the side. Wow. In the 6th, Travis Tucker was hit by a pitch. OU changed pitchers again (sent Duke to the mound) and Travis stole 2b with Jordan Danks at the mound. Jordan flew out to lf. Russell Moldenhauer grounded out, moving Travis to 3b. Brandon Belt walked. And, Kyle Russell homered over the rf wall!!! Preston Clark struck out for the 3rd out. Horns up 10-5.

The Sooners put one on the board in the bottom of the 6th when Selby led off with a solo homerun. The next three Sooner batters went down in order. Neither team scored in the 7th. The Horns scored another in the 8th. Jordan Danks walked to start things off and moved to 3b on a single by Russell Moldenhauer. He scored as Brandon Belt grounded into a double play. Kyle Russell flew out to lf for the 3rd out.

Up 11-6, the Horns scored another couple in the 9th when Preston Clark led off with a walk and Cameron Rupp hit his 4th homerun of the season! The Horns gave up another run in the bottom of the 9th (1-out triple followed by a single before the final two batters flew out to cf and grounded out to 2b). Horns won 13-7!

As I mentioned, Riley Boening started for the Horns and got into a bit of trouble. It was very nice to see the Horns respond at the plate after falling behind. Brandon Workman pitched 6.1 innings and got the win. Brandon Belt threw the final 1.3 innings. OU went through 7 pitchers. Rocha got the start, pitched into the 5th inning, and took the loss.

A couple of unusual things happened. Sunny Golloway (OU head coach) was thrown out of the game (in the 7th, I think). He got into an argument with the 3b umpire when the ump ruled that an OU batter went around as he tried to hold off swinging at a pitch outside the zone. Was it an attempt to fire his team up? Dunno. Later, when Brandon Workman hit Casey Johnson in the 8th, everyone seemed to take it for granted that he plunked the batter on purpose. Johnson had homered off Brandon in his previous at-bat. The home and 1b umps discussed the situation and apparently warned everyone that the next hit batter would result in an ejection of the pitcher. Johnson ended up being the last hit batter of the game.

The Horns come home to face the Texas State Bobcats in Round Rock (at the Dell Diamond) on Tuesday. Then they travel to Missouri to face the Tigers who went 1-2 at Oklahoma State this weekend and are 22-8 on the season (5-4 in Big 12 play).

Hook 'em!

Posted by Joanna at 11:33 PM