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Saturday - May 8, 2010
Game 48: Texas at Kansas State
For a change, I just watched today's baseball game. No score-keeping...no note-taking. I didn't expect to be able to watch it. I expected to listen to most of it. Our family celebrated Mother's Day today instead of Sunday because my father will be on the road tomorrow. He cooked a fabulous brisket on the grill for us to enjoy. I thought we'd maybe get to listen to most of the game but my folks surprised me by having added some sports package to their cable system when they saw today's game would be available via Fox College Sports. I hadn't even seen that the game was going to be televised. So, I got a Mother's Day surprise. Heh.
The game went much like I thought it would. Well, more so, really. I thought the Horns would take care of business today. I just didn't realize how well they'd do it. They beat Kansas State 17-2 and clinched the regular season Big 12 championship in the process. Nice.
Cole Green pitched his 4th complete game of the year and moved his record to 10-0. He pitched an incredibly efficient game. Since I wasn't keeping score, I wasn't real sure as the game went on but you could tell he was just coasting along. According to the boxscore, he faced 33 batters in 9 innings while throwing only 102 pitches. He gave up 2 runs (1 earned) on 6 hits with no walks, 4 strikeouts, and 2 wild pitches. Wow. Pretty special.
Here's the line...
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 17 | 19 | 2 |
| Kansas State | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 1 |
Offensively, the Horns were on fire today. Jonathan Walsh, getting a rare start in lf (actually, he's started more than I thought he had...according to the stats on the TexasSports.com page, today's start was his 14th of the year), went 4-for-5 with 5 runs batted in and 3 runs scored. He, Cohl Walla, Brandon Loy, and Cameron Rupp all hit homeruns today. Loy's homer was the first of his Longhorn career. We'd noticed that Loy was the only regular starter without a homerun this year and had been pulling for him to hit one for the last few weeks so his was particularly sweet.
Read more about the game:
- No. 2 Baseball captures Big 12 regular-season title (TexasSport.com)
- UT bounces back from loss, crushes K-State (Austin Meek, special to the Austin American-Statesman)
- Texas tramples K-State 17-2 in baseball (Kellis Robinett , Kansas City Star)
Brandon Workman will be on the mound for the Horns tomorrow. I'll be listening to the game on the radio and keeping score. Hook 'em!
Posted by Joanna at 10:14 PM