Baseball Game Thread: No. 3 Texas vs. USC Upstate (Saturday)

[Blake Munroe]

That’s it for Walker. 

Freshman Brody Walls about to face five righties in a row. 

[Blake Munroe]

Heading to B7. 10-3 is still the score. 

[.45s]

Brody Walls struck out the next 2 after replacing Walker.  Going to bottom of 7th

[.45s]

We have struck out 13 and walked only 2.  Going to 8th.

[.45s]

Bottom of the 8th,  A Rod up.

[Blake Munroe]

A Rod scores. It’s 11-3 in the B8 with 1 out. Runner on 3. 

[.45s]

A Rod and Becerra hits.  Pack grounded out and A Rod scored.   11 to 3.

[AZ Longhorn]

@Blake Munroe I can barely stand to watch A Rod swing. Could you perhaps do a quick video catching us up on the history of that injury, what they've tried, and what his prognosis is? From the very little I've heard, it sounds like the surgery thing was a bit of a hail mary, and they don't know what's wrong or how to fix it? I feel terrible for the kid — he has a real future if this can get resolved — but this can't go on. And even just selfishly, I can hardly bear to watch

Edited Sunday at 02:37 AM by AZ Longhorn

[.45s]

top of 9th

[.45s]

Pitching has been slipping.  Brody Walls fell apart, Hamilton in, but it is now 11 to 6 with one out.

[.45s]

Burns in to pitch.  Two on, 1 out.

[Blake Munroe]

Texas definitely has slipped up here at the end but they just need two more, as they’re up 11-6. USCU has 2 RISP

[Blake Munroe]

Just now, Blake Munroe said:

Texas definitely has slipped up here at the end but they just need two more, as they’re up 11-6. USCU has 2 RISP

Make that bases loaded. 

[TCope111]

Our middle relief and closers are going to have to pick it up for conference play. We will get beat by teams with fire power and good pitching if their own. Can’t come in the game in relief and throw balls/walk batters. 

[.45s]

11 to 7

[LonghornLegends]

What in the fkn melt down is going on here lol

[.45s]

11 to 9, 12th batter of inning coming up.

[AZ Longhorn]

2 minutes ago, TCope111 said:

Our middle relief and closers are going to have to pick it up for conference play. We will get beat by teams with fire power and good pitching if their own. Can’t come in the game in relief and throw balls/walk batters. 

I think tonight is an outlier and over the course of a season, the bullpen will prove to be a massive comparative advantage over other programs (like most experts believe). Not making excuses for tonight, just don't believe this is evidence of underlying problems or a pattern at this point

• It's hard to come back after a rain delay,
• Even just over the course of the whole season so far, this is very much an outlier
• Walls, and even Hamilton, are not our highest-leverage guys. Burns hasn't been super sharp, but if this is a one-run SEC game, we're seeing different arms throughout. 

[TCope111]

1 minute ago, AZ Longhorn said:

I think tonight is an outlier and over the course of a season, the bullpen will prove to be a massive comparative advantage over other programs (like most experts believe). Not making excuses for tonight, just don't believe this is evidence of underlying problems or a pattern at this point

• It's hard to come back after a rain delay,
• Even just over the course of the whole season so far, this is very much an outlier
• Walls, and even Hamilton, are not our highest-leverage guys. Burns hasn't been super sharp, but if this is a one-run SEC game, we're seeing different arms throughout. 

I agree somewhat, I think we have gotten away from underwhelming performances from the middle relief by playing inferior opponents and then always having a big arm to bring in when they start to waver. I get what you are saying though. I do think we have strength there, but they need to throw strikes. 

[.45s]

Finally.  Winter came in and go the final out.  11 to 9.  

[AZ Longhorn]

Man, he hung that 2-strike curve like a mf, but we'll take the result and escape!!!

[Blake Munroe]

Too close for comfort. And my dang laptop went into windows update hell at the end 🤦‍♂️

[Califashorn75]

Became a nail biter. That's baseball. 

[cmk4pres]

Competition is about to elevate quickly