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Saturday - March 20, 2010
Game 19: Nebraska at Texas
The Horns lost 3-5 on a miserably cold day. Ugh.
Another quick post from the field. Full report to come this evening. Watch for an update here.
UPDATE. It was terribly miserably cold today at Disch-Falk. Terribly. And, miserably. It was 41 °F with a very strong wind from the northwest blowing throughout the entire game. I knew it would be cold so I bundled up to the max. And, still froze out there. Brrrr...
The game seemed a bit like a replay (albeit a very cold one) of the first game of the series...only, without the final-inning heroics.
The line:
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nebraska | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 10 | 2 |
| Texas | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 1 |
Note that Nebraska did not score in the first inning. That seemed, at the time, like an improvement. Alas...
Cole Green started for the Horns. He was not sporting the high-socks look today. Due to the cold? Dunno. The score was tied 3-3 when he left so he got a no-decision. His numbers (by my count): 5.2 innings, 3 runs given up (all earned), 100 pitches thrown (59 strikes), 25 batters faced, 1 hit batter, 3 walks, 3 strikeouts, and 6 hits (2 homeruns, 4 singles). He left the game in the 6th with runners at the corners and 2 out. Andrew McKirahan (lefty) went in to face a left-handed batter. Nebraska promptly sent a right-handed batter to the plate. He, kindly hit into a 6-4 fielder's choice. In the 7th, McKirahan got a quick ground out and then gave up back-to-back singles. The runners advanced on the first pitch to the next batter (a wild pitch). The batter at the plate was Adam Bailey who'd already hit two homeruns against the Horns (one yesterday and one in the 4th inning of today's game) so they went ahead and intentionally walked him. The next batter hit a sac fly to rf, scoring the runner from 3b and moving the runner from 2b to 3b. The next batter singled, scoring the second run of the inning and putting runners at 1b and 2b. At that point, Stayton Thomas went into the game and he got the next batter to fly out to cf. McKirahan's final numbers: 1 inning, 2 runs given up (both earned), 19 pitches thrown (10 strikes), 7 batters faced, 1 wild pitch, 1 walk, and 3 hits (all singles). He was also saddled with the loss, moving his record to 1-1.
Stayton Thomas, Hoby Milner, and Chance Ruffin closed out the game without giving up any further runs. Their numbers...
- Thomas: 1 inning, 18 pitches thrown (11 strikes), 4 batters faced, and 1 hit (a double).
- Milner: 1 inning, 22 pitches (13 strikes), 6 batters faced, 1 hit batter, 1 walk, 2 strikeouts, and no hits.
- Ruffin: 0.1 innings, 6 pitches (4 strikes), 1 batter faced, and no hits.
On the offensive side of things, the Horns hit a couple of homeruns for all of their scores. They didn't get very many chances beyond those to score but did squander a couple of good ones. Sadly.
Here's how things went down offensively...
- 1st inning
- Pop-up to ss, ground out to 2b, ground out to 3b
- 2nd inning
- Cameron Rupp doubled to the cf/rf gap on a line drive over the center fielder's head.
- Jonathan Walsh hit his first homerun as a Longhorn over the rf fence.
- Brandon Loy flew out to lf.
- Kevin Lusson grounded out to 2b.
- Russell Moldenhauer lined into rf for a single.
- Cohl Walla reached on a slow bouncing infield single to 2b, moving Moldenhauer to 2b.
- The runners advanced to 2b and 3b on a passed ball with Tant Shepherd at the plate.
- Shepherd walked to load the bases.
- Jordan Etier hit a hard ground ball toward ss. Sadly, it hit Walla, who tried very hard to avoid the ball, for the 3rd out of the inning.
- 3rd inning
- Strikeout swinging, reach on error, pop out to 2b, ground into fielder's choice.
- 4th inning
- Lusson started things off with a homerun over the rf fence that actually landed on the other side of Comal. Wow.
- Moldenhauer doubled through the left side.
- Walla grounded out to 2b, moving Moldenhauer to 3b.
- Shepherd drew a 4-pitch walk, putting runners at the corners with one out.
- Etier struck out looking.
- Kevin Keyes struck out swinging.
- 5th inning
- Strikeout swinging, ground out to 2b, reach on error, ground out to 1b.
- 6th inning
- Ground out to ss, strikeout swinging, ground out to 3b.
- 7th inning
- Etier was hit by a pitch (0-1 count).
- Keyes worked the count full, then grounded into a 6-4-3 double play. If Etier had been off with the pitch, he would've probably been safe. Alas...
- Rupp singled into cf.
- Walsh drew a full-count walk.
- Loy flew out to rf.
- 8th inning
- Lusson drew an 8-pitch full-count walk.
- Nebraska finally replaced their starter (who threw 130 pitches by my count) and sent in a lefty to face Moldenhauer.
- Texas did not respond with a right-handed batter. Moldenhauer struck out looking.
- Nebraska changed pitchers again...went back to a righty.
- Tim Maitland (pinch-hitting for Walla) flew out to cf.
- Shepherd struck out swinging.
- 9th inning
- Jordan Weymouth (pinch-hitting for Etier...Texas went with the left-handed pinch-hitter as they did last night) struck out swinging.
- Keyes struck out looking.
- Rupp flew out to deep cf.
- Game over.
Not pretty. And, miserably cold. Did I mention that?
Rubber match tomorrow at noon. The weather should be about 20 degrees warmer. A vast improvement. And, if you have access to Fox College Sports, you can watch the game on TV.
Go Horns!
Posted by Joanna at 6:00 PM