Baseball Game Thread: No. 2 Texas vs. Ole Miss (Saturday)

[camridleyfan]

Interesting send none the less

[Jeff Howe]

Texas has a 2-0 lead after one.

[Jeff Howe]

 

[JMarquette]

Luke Harrison was 1 pitch away from an Immaculate Inning, wow!

[82horn]

Harrison with a 10 pitch inning. I am liking it so far.

[TrouperG]

I'm here, don't make me regret it..... The only thing I will say about Tinney is he's our starting catcher which means he touches the ball more than anyone else on the team and defensively he's been more than serviceable.  If you bench him, you could destroy any confidence and then you've got one option at catcher.  Plus he is a top NIL earner on the team, but this isn't the majors, you can't structure performance into the contracts, at least I don't think you can YET.  We don't need his bat right now as well as everyone else is swinging it so any Manager/Coach worth a damn is going to keep him in the lineup.  If you move him to eighth they might pitch around him but he does get on base.  He also has the fewest at bats for a Longhorn starter because of the Walks with Pack having Fewer because they've been keeping Duplantier engaged.  Temo has as many at bats because he scares the crap out of pitchers at this point with his trademark three run homers.

[TrouperG]

And their starter is out.  It sucks he got hurt but it bodes well for the rest of the series having Ole Miss go to the bullpen in the second.

[JMarquette]

Nice AB, Tinney. 

[JMarquette]

Tinney lets a ball go through his legs lol. 

[TrouperG]

10 minutes ago, JMarquette said:

Tinney lets a ball go through his legs lol. 

It was scored a wild pitch.  I do wonder how many passed balls Tinney has this year.

 

[JMarquette]

3 minutes ago, TrouperG said:

It was scored a wild pitch.  I do wonder how many passed balls Tinney has this year.

 

Yeah I saw that, I don’t really think that was a difficult play for Tinney to make. That felt like a fairly easy pitch to handle.

[82horn]

Texas takes the lead Mendoza delivers

[TrouperG]

Chased the second pitcher, so far the plan is working out.

[JMarquette]

Robbins, again man, just a phenomenal hitter.

[Jeff Howe]

 

[JMarquette]

Harrison has GOT to stop giving up free bases, especially the first batter of the inning.

[TrouperG]

Every time Borba makes a pick at first it looks like it's going to dribble free.  

[TrouperG]

10 minutes ago, JMarquette said:

Harrison has GOT to stop giving up free bases, especially the first batter of the inning.

Harrison is going into the sixth with at least a two run lead while Ole Miss is on their third pitcher.  He did what we needed him to do and the bats have picked him up. If he can get through the heart of their order then we can go to the bullpen feeling pretty good.

Edited 19 minutes ago by TrouperG

[82horn]

1 minute ago, TrouperG said:

Harrison is going into the sixth with at least a two run lead while Ole Miss is on their third pitcher.  He did what we needed him to do and the bats have picked him up.

Definitely the outing we needed today. Need another inning or two before going to bullpen, he is at 70 pitches 

[JMarquette]

5 minutes ago, TrouperG said:

Harrison is going into the sixth with at least a two run lead while Ole Miss is on their third pitcher.  He did what we needed him to do and the bats have picked him up. If he can get through the heart of their order then we can go to the bullpen feeling pretty good.

Not disagreeing to an extent, but his big issue has been giving free rides to the first batters, which puts himself in a tough position. You can retinue recognize that he’s pitched well while also recognizing that he could help himself by starting innings better. 

[TrouperG]

4 minutes ago, JMarquette said:

Not disagreeing to an extent, but his big issue has been giving free rides to the first batters, which puts himself in a tough position. You can retinue recognize that he’s pitched well while also recognizing that he could help himself by starting innings better. 

At this point with the bottom of the order coming up and no real matchup advantage I'd leave Harrison in for the 7th, especially if they can tack on another run or two.

[82horn]

Harrison gets thru 6 innings, longest outing of the year. He is at 85 pitches think Texas will go to bullpen in the 7th. This is what we needed from him today, and he got done with the middle of Ole Miss lineup that last half inning !

[82horn]

1 minute ago, TrouperG said:

At this point with the bottom of the order coming up and no real matchup advantage I'd leave Harrison in for the 7th, especially if they can tack on another run or two.

That would be big, not sure if they will, we shall see.

[TCope111]

The longer we wait on the bullpen, the better imo. Should have rode Ruger another few outs last night and same with Lefew. 

[82horn]

Gumbo in for Larson, wish Larson was completely healthy.