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Friday - May 6, 2011
Game 46: Texas at Nebraska
Texas traveled to Nebraska for their final series as Big 12 rivals. Interestingly, the local PBS station seemed to be underwriting a free web broadcast of the game. I tuned in a bit late...somewhere around the 4th inning or so. Which means I missed seeing a lot of weirdness in the first couple of innings...wherein the Longhorns were apparently replaced by the Bad News Bears. Or something like that.
The line:
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Visitor | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 12 | 2 |
| Home | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 1 |
Taylor Jungmann started for the Horns and struggled a bit...as did his infield. I was listening on the radio as I drove home from work. During the first two innings of the game, three of the Nebraska batters reached on infield singles off the gloves of the Texas shortstop, second baseman, and first baseman. Jordan Etier also made an error on what Craig Way and Bill Little described as a tailor-made double play when he threw behind the shortstop. Jungmann also walked 3 batters in the first 3 innings...after walking only 14 all year. There were also passed balls and wild pitches. It was just bizarre. The team really settled down after the 3rd inning, though, and started playing more like their usual selves. I finished my dinner at the end of the 6th inning so decided to document the end of the game. And, so...the final 3 innings...
- 7th inning, Texas
- Tant Shepherd (1b) reached (can't remember how).
- Erich Weiss (3b) bunted Shepherd to 2b.
- Cohl Walla (dh) struck out looking (after Nebraska changed pitchers).
- A wild pitch with Paul Montalbano at the plate moved Shepherd to 3b.
- Montalbano (cf) singled into cf, scoring Shepherd.
- Jordan Etier (2b) walked, moving Montalbano to 2b.
- Jonathan Walsh (lf) grounded out to 1b (unassisted).
- Texas up 4-3.
- 7th inning, Nebraska
- Chad Christensen singled to cf and moved up to 2b on an error charged to Montalbano. On the play, Montalbano slipped as he was about to field the ball and fell. Walsh, running over from lf to back him up, ran past the ball. Again with the bad news bears. Yikes.
- Patric Tolentino (yes, Jose Tolentino's son) struck out swinging. The catcher couldn't hang on so threw down to 1b to complete the out.
- Tanner Krietemeier struck out looking. 8th strikeout of the night for Jungmann...all thrown since the start of the 4th inning.
- Michael Pritchard reached on a full-count walk.
- Bryan Peters flew out to rf down the line and about 10 feet foul. Whew.
- Texas up 4-3.
- 8th inning, Texas
- Jacob Felts (c) struck out looking.
- Brandon Loy (ss) singled through the right side. Nice.
- Nebraska changed pitchers...going from a righty (Pierce, I think) to a lefty (Tyler King).
- With Mark Payton at the plate, Loy was caught stealing. It was a really close play at 2b but...sigh...
- Payton (rf) struck out swinging on the next pitch.
- Texas up 4-3.
- 8th inning, Nebraska
- Color me puzzled that Jungmann went back out to the mound for the 8th.
- Cody Asche reached on a slow-rolling single that went just past Jungmann on the mound to the second baseman. By the time Etier fielded, he had no play at 1b.
- Kurt Farmer grounded out to 1b (unassisted), moving Asche to 2b.
- With a 2-0 count to Kale Kiser (and 116 pitches thrown by Jungmann), Skip Johnson made a visit to the mound.
- Kiser went on to walk.
- Kash Kalkowski struck out swinging.
- Christensen grounded out to ss. Whew.
- Texas up 4-3.
- 9th inning, Texas
- Nebraska sent Casey Hauptman (rhp) to the mound.
- Shepherd homered way over the lf fence!
- The Nebraska announcers seemed to give up all hope at that point. They did realize what they were doing and said it wasn't all over but already too late by then. Heh.
- Weiss struck out swinging.
- Walla singled through the left side.
- Christian Summers went in to pinch-run for Walla.
- Montalbano flew out to cf or rf...not sure which. Sorry.
- Etier grounded out to 3b.
- Texas up 5-3.
- 9th inning, Nebraska
- Texas sent Corey Knebel (rhp) to the mound, replacing Jungmann. Tim Maitland also replaced Walsh in lf.
- Tolentino struck out looking.
- Cory Burleson (pinch-hitting for Krietemeier) flew out to lf.
- Pritchard struck out swinging!
- Texas wins 5-3.
Jungmann gets the win. Knebel gets his 15th save of the year! Walsh and Shepherd hit solo homeruns. (UPDATE. Oops. Walsh hit a 2-run shot.) All-in-all, a spectacular win after the way the first three innings went for the Horns. Hook 'em!
Posted by Joanna at 9:54 PM