OTF Premium Baseball Game Thread: No. 4 Texas vs. No. 11 Alabama (Sunday 1 p.m.)

[Jeff Howe]

HBP and back-to-back hard-hit singles get Alabama on the board against Harrison.

Texas trails 1-0 with one out in the top of the second.

[Jeff Howe]

A walk and Alabama has the bases loaded with two outs.

[Jeff Howe]

Harrison gets Holt to swing and miss to get out of the inning.

[Jeff Howe]

Alabama leaves the bases loaded in the top of the second, but Texas trails by a run heading to the home half.

[Jeff Howe]

M2: Alabama 1, Texas 0

[Jeff Howe]

Larson tried to bunt his way on base, but a tremendous scoop by Vaughn nails him at first base for an out.

[Jeff Howe]

Upchurch should be out of the inning, but he played Pendergrass' chopper back to the mound about as poorly as you can. Texas has a runner on base with two outs for Robbins.

[Jeff Howe]

Pendergrass might've aggravated his back running out that ball.

And now he's on second after a wild pitch.

[Jeff Howe]

Gumbo comes into the game to run for Pendergrass. He gets stranded at second as Robbins flies out to end the inning.

[Jeff Howe]

End of 2: Alabama 1, Texas 0

[AZ Longhorn]

Sucks for Pendergrass and for us. Hopefully it's just 2-3 weeks til he's healthy and he gets another chance to contribute. I liked what we'd seen

[Jeff Howe]

Harrison retires the Tide in order in the top of the third.

[Jeff Howe]

M3: Alabama 1, Texas 0

[AZ Longhorn]

Great response by Harrison to stall any tide momentum. 2-3-4 easy peasy

[Jeff Howe]

Two-out infield single by Pack keeps the bottom of the third alive.

[Jeff Howe]

Awful base running mistake by Pack. He was headed to second and Upchurch never checked him. Pack, for whatever reason, decided to go back to first and was picked off, ending the inning.

[Jeff Howe]

End of 3: Alabama 1, Texas 0

[AZ Longhorn]

 

2 minutes ago, Jeff Howe said:

Awful base running mistake by Pack. He was headed to second and Upchurch never checked him. Pack, for whatever reason, decided to go back to first and was picked off, ending the inning.

Pack is a good base stealer who doesn't need to gamble like that against upchurch-neal. You wanna guess, ok, but if he doesn't go after your step and a half, shut it down and live another pitch

Edited 1 hour ago by AZ Longhorn

[Jeff Howe]

Six strikeouts today for Harrison make 42 for the pitching staff in the series.

[Jeff Howe]

Harrison's seventh K of the day ends the Alabama fourth.

[Jeff Howe]

M4: Alabama 1, Texas 0

[Jeff Howe]

 

[Jeff Howe]

 

[Jeff Howe]

Mendoza reaches base on a throwing error by Justin Lebron. Just a bad throw by Lebron.

[HalfmileHorn]

Our bats are going to come around.