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Saturday - April 10, 2010
Game 32: Kansas at Texas
Texas beat Kansas 3-1 to take a 2-0 lead in the series. Cole Green pitched a great game for the win. Stayton Thomas and Hoby Milner threw the 8th and Chance Ruffin pitched the 9th to earn his 8th save of the year. Sad to say this is gonna be a shorter report than usual. I think being out in all that oak pollen is really getting to me. I came home and promptly fell asleep. And, now I've got an emergency at work so I've got to head into the office and have no idea when I'll get home. 'Decided it was better to get something online than to wait 'til I had time to do a full report.
Kansas got another good game out of their starter. Cameron Selik pitched a complete game for the Jayhawks and took the tough-luck loss. He held the Horns to 4 hits. Texas took advantage of their opportunities this afternoon to take the win. The line:
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kansas | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 |
| Texas | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | - | 3 | 4 | 1 |
Here's how the Horns scored their three runs:
- Texas, 5th inning
- Russell Moldenhauer (dh) singled into lf.
- With Kevin Lusson (3b) at the plate, Moldenhauer advanced to 2b on a passed ball. I thought it was a wild pitch but it was ruled a passed ball. Shrug.
- Lusson flew out to deep cf. Moldenhauer tagged up and advanced to 3b. On a similar play earlier in the game, by the way, Tant Shepherd (1b) was about two-thirds of the way to 3b when a fly ball was caught in cf and had to scamper back to 2b. Frustrating.
- Connor Rowe (cf> then hit a sac fly to cf (1st pitch) to score Moldenhauer and tie the game up.
- Jordan Etier (2b) flew out to cf to end the inning.
- Texas, 6th inning
- With two out, Tant Shepherd hit a line drive into the Kansas bullpen to push the Horns ahead 2-1.
- Texas, 8th inning
- Rowe drew a 4-pitch walk which prompted a visit to the mound.
- Etier advanced Rowe to 2b on a 3-4 sac bunt.
- Rowe then moved up to 3b on a wild pitch with Cohl Walla (lf) at the plate.
- Brandon Loy (ss) hit a hard ground ball to ss and managed to beat the throw to 1b for a single, plating Rowe for the final run of the game.
The Horns looked pretty good today but came up against another Kansas pitcher who threw a very good game. On the defensive side of things, the Horns turned three really nice double plays (in the 5th, 7th, and 8th) which helped make up for the lack of offense. It'll be interesting to see what happens tomorrow. Will the run machine step back up? Over the last four Sundays, the Horns have scored 18, 13, 17, and 9 runs.
Hook 'em!
Posted by Joanna at 11:35 PM