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Sunday - May 8, 2011

Game 48: Texas at Nebraska

Happy Mother's Day! I came out to Bastrop to share the day with my mom. Listened to the KVET stream while Dad cooked a brisket on the grill. Yummm...

Alas, the Horns did pretty much everything they could to make the day go sour. The line:

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Texas	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	1	0	3	7	1
Nebraska	0	0	1	1	4	0	0	0	-	6	7	0

The line-ups:

Texas		Nebraska
Brandon Loy (ss) Mark Payton (rf) Tant Shepherd (1b) Erich Weiss (3b) Paul Montalbano (cf) Jonathan Walsh (lf) Jordan Etier (2b) Cohl Walla (dh) Jacob Felts (c)		Kale Kiser (lf) Bryan Peters (2b) Cody Asche (3b) Kurt Farmer (1b) Kash Kalkowski (rf) Chad Christensen (ss) Josh Scheffert (dh) Patric Tolentino Khiry Cooper (cf)

Play by play:

• 1st inning, Texas
• Tyler Niederklein (rhp) on the mound for Nebraska.
• Loy singled to lf.
• Payton moved Loy to 2b with a 5-3 sac bunt.
• Shepherd grounded out ot 3b. Loy did not advance.
• Weiss drew a 5-pitch walk. The final pitch was wild and Loy moved up to 3b. Runners at the corners.
• Montalbano struck out looking.
• 1st inning, Nebraska
• Hoby Milner (lhp) on the mound for Texas.
• Kiser flew out to lf.
• Peters grounded out to the pitcher.
• Asche went down swinging!
• 2nd inning, Texas
• Walsh grounded out to 2b.
• Etier lined out to ss.
• Walla grounded out to ss.
• 2nd inning, Nebraska
• Farmer grounded out to 3b.
• Kalkowski grounded out 1-5-3 off Milner's foot. Ouch. Milner was given a couple of warm-up pitches to make sure he was not hurt by the ball. Nice job by Weiss to stick with the play.
• Christensen drew a full-count 7-pitch walk.
• Scheffert grounded into a 6-4 fielder's choice to end the inning.
• 3rd inning, Texas
• Felts singled to left-center.
• Loy moved Felts to 2b on a 5-3 sac bunt.
• Payton reached on a 1-6-5 fielder's choice. Nebraska caught Felts in a run-down on the play.
• Shepherd grounded out to the pitcher.
• 3rd inning, Nebraska
• Tolentino grounded out to ss.
• Cooper drew a full-count 7-pitch walk.
• After 2 balls to Kiser, Skip Johnson made a trip to the mound.
• Kiser went on to draw a 4-pitch walk. Ouch.
• Peters was hit by the first pitch to load the bases. Wow. Makes me wonder if getting hit on the foot earlier did have an affect on Milner?
• Asche hit a sac fly, scoring Cooper. The other runners did not advance.
• Farmer flew out to lf in left-center.
• Texas down 0-1.
• 4th inning, Texas
• Weiss struck out swinging.
• Montalbano hit a perfect bunt single down the 3b line!
• Walsh was hit by a pitch, moving Montalbano to 2b.
• With Etier at the plate, Montalbano advanced to 3b on a wild pitchl. Walsh stayed at 1b on the ball that did not get very far away from the catcher. The catcher threw to 1b but too late.
• Etier popped out to ss in shallow cf.
• With Walla at the plate, Montalbano was caught stealing 2-1 on a wild pitch. Montalbano hesitated as he was running home (not able to tell how far away it was from the catcher?) and was then caught when Tolentino was able to get to the ball in time to throw back to the pitcher.
• Texas down 0-1.
• 4th inning, Nebraska
• Kalkowski singled to lf.
• Christensen moved Kalkowski to 2b on a 1-3 sac bunt.
• Scheffert struck out looking. Yay!
• With Tolentino at the plate, Kalkowski stole 3b on a ball (the 7th pitch). Felts threw to 3b and hit his hand on Tolentino. No batter's interference because he was in the batter's box.
• Tolentino doubled off the wall in the lf corner, scoring Kalkowski.
• Cooper grounded out to ss.
• Texas down 0-2.
• 5th inning, Texas
• Walla grounded out to 3b.
• Felts flew out to cf.
• Loy struck out swinging.
• Texas down 0-2.
• 5th inning, Nebraska
• Christian Summers went in defensively at 2b, replacing Eteir. No idea what prompted the substitution.
• Kiser singled past ss into cf.
• Peters squared to bunt and then, swinging away, singled into lf, moving Kiser to 2b.
• Asche flew out to cf. Nice run-down by Montalbano.
• Texas sent Kendal Carrillo (rhp) to the mound, replacing Milner.
• Farmer was hit by a pitch to load the bases. Skip Johnson argued that Farmer leaned into the pitch but to no avail.
• Texas sent Nathan Thornhill (rhp) to the mound, replacing Carrillo.
• Kalkowski hit a sac fly to the warning track in rf. Farmer scored and Kalkowski moved up to 3b.
• Scheffert reached on a fielding error by 3b. Kalkowski scored. It sounded like Weiss was thinking ahead to his throw before he cleanly fielded the ball.
• Tolentino flew out to cf.
• Texas down 0-6. Ouch.
• 6th inning, Texas
• Payton struck out swinging.
• Shepherd flew out to lf.
• Weiss was hit by a pitche.
• Montalbano drew a 4-pitch walk, moving Weiss to 2b.
• Walsh doubled over the right fielder's head (!), scoring Weiss and Montalbano.
• With Summers at the plate, Walsh advanced to 3b on a wild pitch.
• Summers fell behind 0-2 but ended up drawing a full-count 7-pitch walk. Nice.
• Nebraska sent Casey Hauptman (rhp) to the mound, replacing Niederklein.
• Walla struck out swinging. The catcher dropped the ball so had to throw down to 1b to complete the out.
• Texas down 2-6.
• 6th inning, Nebraska
• Cooper struck out swinging.
• Kiser struck out looking.
• Peters flared a single into lf.
• Asche singled just past Shepherd into rf, moving Peters to 2b. Summers almost made a great play to field the ball behind Shepherd and make a play. But it was just out of his reach.
• Farmer flew out to cf.
• Texas down 2-6.
• 7th inning, Texas
• Felts grounded out to 3b.
• Loy struck out looking.
• Payton grounded out to the pitcher who bare-handed the ball before throwing to 1b. Nice play.
• Texas down 2-6.
• 7th inning, Nebraska
• Kalkowski grounded out to 1b (p covered bag).
• Christensen grounded out to 2b.
• Scheffert struck out swinging.
• Texas down 2-6.
• 8th inning, Texas
• Shepherd singled past the ss into lf.
• With Weiss at the plate, Shepherd moved up to 2b on a wild pitch.
• Weiss grounded out to 1b (p covered bag), moving Shepherd to 3b.
• Montalbano singled into rf, scoring Shepherd.
• Walsh singled through the right side. Montalbano took a big turn around 2b and was tagged out (9-6) as he tried to get back to 2b. Careless base running. Wow.
• Summers hit into a 6-4 fielder's choice.
• Texas down 3-6.
• 8th inning, Nebraska
• Tolentino grounded out to 3b. Weiss fell down, got back up, and threw off-line to 1b. Shepherd got a sweep tag on the batter.
• With Cooper at the plate, Tommy Harmon was ejected by the home plate umpire...for arguing ball/strike calls.
• Cooper struck out swinging on the next pitch.
• Kiser grounded out to 1b (unassisted).
• Texas down 3-6.
• 9th inning, Texas
• Walla popped out to 1b in foul territory.
• Kevin Lusson (pinch-hitting for Felts) flew out to rf.
• Loy popped out to 2b.
• Texas loses 3-6.

That was a very disappointing loss...on many levels. In the post-game interview, Coach Garrido sounded as frustrated as I feel. He was very upset that the team seems to be satisfied winning 2-out-of-3 games and cannot seem to get their killer instinct in gear. He said they spoke about how important today's game was and they still went out and made mistakes on offense, gave up extra outs, and just did not execute. Sigh...

The Horns are off (they've got finals this week) until Saturday when Texas Southern comes to town for a double-header.

Also of note: Coach Garrido will be signing his new book at Book People on Tuesday evening.

Posted by Joanna at 1:55 PM