« Opening day | Main | Game 2: New Mexico at Texas »

Friday - February 19, 2010

Game 1: New Mexico at Texas

Texas won their season opener today...defeating New Mexico 6-2. Taylor Jungmann started for the Horns and went 7 innings. Yes, 7. Yes, Coach Garrido said he would not use any starters for more than 5 or 6 innings at the start of the season so that the middle relievers would get the chance to get lots of work in. Who's shocked that Jungmann went 7 innings (and threw 98 pitches) in the first game? Not me. Oh well. Stayton Thomas pitched the 8th and Chance Ruffin closed things out by pitching the 9th. Both relievers allowed a double but were lights-out otherwise. Very nice job on the mound from all three young men.

Offensively, Kyle Lusson was the hero of the day. He hit the 2nd pitch he saw over the lf fence for his first career homerun. He also reached on a bunt single and scored in the 4th, advanced a runner with a sac bunt in the 6th and then, disappointed us all by flying out in the 8th. Heh. Brandon Loy also scored 2 runs; he went 1-for-5 in the lead-off spot, scoring runs in the 1st and 4th. Jordan Etier went 1-for-5 with a run scored in the 1st. Connor Rowe and Cameron Rupp were both responsible for a couple of runs batted in. All-in-all, a pretty good day at the plate.

I tried something new today. And, I mostly liked it. I scored the game on my iPhone with an app called iScore (available from Faster Than Monkeys). It was a bit hit-or-miss to start. And, of course, Texas did something unusual in the 1st that immediately caused a problem. The bottom of the 1st went like so for Texas:

• Loy singled up the middle
• Etier, trying to bunt, popped a ball up along the 1b side. The catcher dove for the ball and had it but then dropped it. Whew. Etier then bunted a ball past the pitcher toward 1b. Both 1b and 2b went to cover the 1b bag and the ball was hit too deep for the pitcher to field. By the time, the 2b changed course to field the ball, Etier was safe. Bunt single.
• Ruppo struck out swinging.
• Moldenhauer walked, loading the bases.
• Keyes grounded out to ss. Loy scored. Etier moved to 3b; Moldenhauer moved to 2b.
• Rowe doubled to lf, scoring Etier and Moldenhauer.
• Lusson walked, moving Rowe to 2b.
• Shepherd flew out to cf.

At some point, the official scorer decided to assign an error to the catcher for the missed bunted pop-up by Etier. iScore would not allow me to score both the error and the bunt single. Annoying. I'll be dropping them a line to see if that can be fixed. But, for now, my unofficial scorecard just has a note about the situation but does not reflect reality. Or, at least, the official scorer's reality.

In the top of the 2nd, the lead-off batter hit a shallow pop-up to rf. Keyes dove for the ball but couldn't make the catch. He booted the ball toward the rf line, allowing the batter to advance to 2b. I scored this as a singled plus an error by rf. The official scorer, however, scored it as a double. I don't see how that reasoning went. If Keyes had not left his feet and allowed the ball to bounce, he likely would've fielded cleanly, keeping the batter at 1b. I was unable to go back and change the single+e9 to a double in iScore. Again, a bit frustrating.

Adding notes in iScore is a bit cumbersome as well. I'll probably get better at that, though. We'll see.

I've decided to post the iScore scoresheet for you: New Mexico at Texas scoresheet - Feb. 19, 2010 (PDF format). If I continue to use the program, I'll post the scoresheets for all iScored games.

And, the line:

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
New Mexico	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	2	9	1
Texas	3	1	0	2	0	0	0	0	-	6	11	1

Note that this line reflects the official boxscore...not my scoresheet (since I couldn't get some of the stuff to work, as noted above).

Brandon Workman is slated to make the start tomorrow for the Horns. I'll be back with a report tomorrow night.

Hook 'em!

Posted by Joanna at 11:51 PM