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Tuesday - April 6, 2010
Game 29: Texas A&M-Corpus Christi at Texas
The Horns beat the Texas A&M-Corpus Christi Islanders 16-3 this evening. Early on, it looked like it might be a pretty competitive game but then the Horns took advantage of a couple of wild pitches and iffy fielding and their bats went to work and it was all Texas for the rest of the evening.
The line:
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Texas A&M-Corpus Christi | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 1 |
| Texas | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 0 | - | 16 | 17 | 2 |
Those two Texas errors? Back-to-back bad throws by Kevin Lusson (playing 3b, as usual) in the first inning. Amazing. Poor guy. With two out, Lusson fielded a ground ball and threw toward the outfield side of 1b. Tant Shepherd dove for the ball and caught it but was pulled off the bag. He lunged his foot back or the bag but the ump ruled that he didn't beat the batter. It was a close play. The next batter hit another grounder to 3b and Lusson threw to 2b, hoping to get the lead runner. Alas, his throw went wide on the 1b side of the bag and into rf...allowing the runner to make it all the way to 3b. A single then scored the runner from 3b. Ouch. Lusson had another throw-out chance in the 4th and did make a bit of an interesting throw...one more time. I think he might've been a little timid at that point...maybe...but got the throw to 1b for the out. Whew. He made up for it in a big way on the offensive side of things, though. He hit a fly ball to cf in the 2nd, allowing Kevin Keyes to tag up and move to 3b. Keyes then scored on a wild pitch (ruled a passed ball by the official scorer but the ball was in the dirt...looked like a wild pitch to me). He flew out again in the 3rd. In the 5th, he advanced Russell Moldenhauer to 2b with a sac bunt. Moldenhauer went on to score. In the 6th, he singled and scored. And, in the 8th? Two-out three-run dinger. Nice.
Everyone in the starting lineup got at least one hit and everyone but Jordan Etier scored at least one run. Tant Shepherd and Cameron Rupp also homered, making three homeruns on the night for Texas. Shepherd's homer hit the HEB sign on the left side of the scoreboard. Cool. After Rupp hit his homer, Jonathan Walsh went in behind the plate. He ended up being the only batter who failed to reach base this evening...but he only got one shot. So, I don't think it can be held against him. And, so, here's how everyone did...
- Cohl Walla (lf): single, ground out to 3b, single (then stolen base and score), strikeout (1-2 pitch), strikeout (full count, 8 pitches), ground out to ss
- Brandon Loy (ss): sac bunt, fly out to cf, sac bunt, single (then score), reach on error (then score), strikeout (full-count)
- Tant Shepherd (1b): fly out to cf, home run (1 rbi), strikeout (full count), hit by pitch (then score), single (then score)
- Cameron Rupp (c): pop out to 1b, double (then score), double (rbi), homerun (3 rbi)
- Jonathan Walsh (c): ground out to 1b
- Kevin Keyes (rf) walk (then score), single (then score), ground out to 2b, ground out to 2b, ground out to ss
- Russell Moldenhauer (dh): sac bunt, single (rbi), single (then score), walk (full count, then score), walk (full count, then score)
- Kevin Lusson (3b): fly out to cf, fly out to cf, sac bunt, single (then score), homerun (3 rbi)
- Connor Rowe (cf): walk (then score), single, ground out to ss, triple (2 rbi), pop-up to 2b/rf (the high fly ball bounced off the second baseman's glove and the right fielder managed to scoop it up before it hit the ground...cool play)
- Jordan Etier (2b): triple (rbi), fielder's choice, single (rbi, then stolen base), ground out to p, line out to ss
On the pitching side of things, Sam Stafford got his 3rd start of the year and pitched into the 5th. He couldn't get out of the 5th, though, so did not get the win. Stafford threw 4.1 innings, gave up 2 runs (1 unearned), faced 21 batters, walked 2, struck out 4, and gave up 3 hits (1 homerun). Kendal Carrillo entered the game in the 5th with 1 out and batters at 1b and 2b. The Islanders tried a double steal on the first pitch by Carrillo but the runner from 1b was thrown out. The batter went on to ground out to the pitcher to get the Horns out of the inning without any runs scored. Carrillo pitched 1.2 innings for his first win. He faced 4 batters and struck one out (the others all grounded out). Josh Urban pitched the 7th and struggled a bit. He faced 7 batters and the inning went: ground out, single, single, single (rbi), walk, strikeout, strikeout. Things were a little iffy there for a bit but he buckled down and got out of the inning with minimal damage. And, he sported high socks (!) so I was a happy camper. Heh. Keifer Nuncio threw the last two innings of the game. He face 7 batters, walked one, and gave up a single. He threw 4 pitches in the 9th to go 1-2-3. Purty.
The same teams meet again tomorrow night. Same bat time, same bat channel.
Hook 'em!
Posted by Joanna at 11:41 PM