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Texas (45-14) will send Ruger Riojas to the mound against Zane Adams and the Crimson Tide. It’s the same pitching matchup from when the two clubs met in Austin on April 18, a 3-1 series-clinching win for the Longhorns, with Riojas striking out 11 and allowing three hits in five innings and Adams working six scoreless innings for Alabama (42-20). *** Ethan Mendoza, who left the Georgia game with a shoulder issue, is in the lineup for Texas against the Tide. He's hitting in the No. 4 hole.
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Off the top of my head, Borba’s error and maybe the ground ball Larson tried to field that went foul could be chalked up to the dirt. Tinney’s errors and Volantis hitting batters didn’t have anything to do with the grass and dirt.
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1 p.m.
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That's it for the press conference. The Longhorns will practice tomorrow to prepare for Alabama.
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Schloss said Ruger Riojas will start the elimination game against Alabama on Monday.
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Schloss was planning to pull Volantis after the fourth, but Texas scored in the top of the fifth. Schloss felt taking Volantis out would've sent the wrong message to the team.
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Schloss said Volchko perfectly executed Georgia's plan. Particularly, he mentioned how Volchko only uses his overhand curveball against lefties, which really tied up Anthony Pack Jr.
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Schloss said he doesn't have an update on Ethan Mendoza. He said maybe swinging the bat negatively impacted his shoulder, whereas it hasn't since he suffered the injury at Tennessee.
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"He's been lobbing them all season and he's been lobbing them perfect," Schloss said of Tinney handling dropped third strikes. "That one, he didn't."
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On the two Tinney errors, Schloss said the first was just a mistake. The second one, he said Tinney rushed it. "I expect him to respond in an awesome way on Monday," he said.
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Schloss doesn't know if Aiden Robbins taking ball four instead of swinging to open the game would've changed anything. When Volchko stuck out the side, Schloss said he was locked in and it was a tough night for Texas.
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Schloss said Texas wasn't taking pitches. Volchko's fastball was just hard to pick up because it was 94-96 mph with movement.
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A-Rod said he does not doubt the Longhorns will come back and compete hard on Monday against Alabama.
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A-Rod on facing Volchko: "As a lefty, I knew everything was coming into me, so I needed to beat it to the spot."
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A-Rod: "We don't play to the scoreboard, we play to a standard. Today, we didn't meet that standard."
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"My bad," Volantis said regarding what Tinney told him, walking off the field after the first inning.
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Volantis said the great defensive play A-Rod made in the second got things going in the right direction for him.
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Volantis said he told Carson Tinney that there are no hard feelings about his errors. "It happens," he said. "We're going to get that cleaned up."
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Volantis said he told himself after the first inning that he tried to tell himself that it was a 0-0 game and he needed to go out and compete.
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Schloss on the miscues: "We're certainly looking forward to a good day of practice tomorrow and getting back on the field on Monday to play better baseball because, I don't know if it would have mattered, considering Volchko was so awesome, but, yeah, that was not good on the part of the Longhorns."
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Schloss: "From a defensive standpoint, that's the worst game we've played the whole season, which is super disappointing on our end. That's a very bad taste in our mouth."
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Schloss on Volchko: "Volchko was awesome. Didn't walk a guy until the ninth inning and threw an endless amount of strikes. I was actually super impressed in an era of baseball where there's strikeouts and emotional things happen in the game, and I didn't see him once screaming at our team or do anything that some of the kids do these days. I thought he was super professional and was outstanding."
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Schloss' opening statement: "Well, there was a delayed start, but we did an awful heck of a job catching everybody up, getting closer to bedtime with that game. Volchko did, for sure."
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Schloss and the players are at the podium.
