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Sunday - March 6, 2011
Game 11: Stanford at Texas
Signing off last night's post, I wrote that I hoped that the weather and the outcome would both be better today. I'm happy to report that they were. The temperature was about the same but without that stiff wind blowing in from lf that we had yesterday, it was a lot easier to be sitting in the stands today. And, more importantly, the Horns won! They beat Stanford 4-2 to take the series 2 games to 1. The box:
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stanford | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 0 |
| Texas | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | x | 4 | 7 | 1 |
Sam Stafford started for the Horns, went 5.1 innings, and got the win. Kendal Carrillo and Stayton Thomas combined for 2.1 innings in relief, and Corey Knebel closed out the final 2 innings of the game to get his 2nd save of the weekend. The two runs scored by Stanford were charged to Thomas who, after a great start early in the season, seems to have had a bit of bad luck in his last couple of appearances. Thomas started the 7th and faced four batters who went: strike out, ground out, single, and ground out. In the 8th, he gave up a lead-off walk followed by a single putting runners at 1b and 2b. Which prompted a pitching change. Knebel gave up back-to-back singles before getting the 5th batter of the inning to ground into a double play. Those lead-off runners scored on the 2nd single and on the double play. The final batter of the inning struck out swinging.
Texas scored 4 runs spread across 3 innings:
- 2nd inning: Erich Weiss reached on an infield single to ss. Cohl Walla then hit into a fielder's choice...erasing Weiss. Jonathan Walsh followed that up with a 5-pitch walk. Tant Shepherd also drew a 5-pitch walk to load the bases. Kevin Lusson struck out swinging. And, with Jordan Etier at the plate, Walla scored on a wild pitch. Etier than grounded out to end the inning.
- 5th inning: Shepherd led the inning off with a double to the lf-cf gap. Purty. Lusson then singled through the right side, moving Shepherd to 3b. Etier grounded out to 1b (unassisted, sac bunt) scoring Shepherd and moving Lusson to 2b. Lusson moved to 3b on a ground out to ss by Paul Montalbano and scored on a single by Brandon Loy through the right side. After a pitching change, Mark Payton struck out to end the inning.
- 6th inning: Walla reached on a 1-out triple. The center fielder seemed to have a bead on the ball but lost it in the sun. By the time the right-fielder managed to round up the ball, Walla was standing happily at 3b. Nice. He then scored on a passed ball with Walsh at the plate.
All-in-all, it was a nice game for the Horns...a very marked improvement over the disaster that was Saturday's game. The team seemed much more focused and energetic.
Next up is UT-San Antonio on Tuesday. They're coming to Austin after losing 3-of-4 on the road to New Mexico. And then it's a 4-game series (including a double-header on Saturday) against Brown who have only played 3 games so far this year..all at Vanderbilt (all losses).
Hook 'em, Horns!
Posted by Joanna at 8:04 PM