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Game 2 - Texas vs OU (Recap & post-game added)

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Game 2 gets underway in 2 hours. Tough matchup on the hill today for a Texas offense that is slumping:

Saturday, April 11 – 3:30PM (Televised on LHN)
Texas – Sophomore, RHP, Kacy Clemens (2-2, 4.59)
OU – Sophomore, RHP, Alec Hansen (4-3, 3.04)

  • Hansen ranks 1st in the Big 12, and is 13th nationally, in strikeouts.
 
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NOTE: UT just announced the game time for the Texas-Oklahoma series finale on Sunday has been moved up to noon.

 
Texas lineup:

6 - Baker

4 - Marlow

7 - Johnson

2 - Cantu

5 - Boswell

3 - Barrera

DH - Hinojosa

9 - Shaw

8 - Gurwitz

Oklahoma lineup:

3 - Carpenter

9 - Alspaugh

8 - Aikin

2 - Hermelyn

6 - Neuse

DH - O'Brien

7 - Evans

5 - Ake

4 - Mendenhall

 
Ceremonial pitch was thrown, the national anthem & Eyes are sung, lineup cards exchanged....it's time to play ball.

 
WARNING - OU's pitcher is a strikeout guy. This is not the kind of thrower a slumping offense wants to face.

Might be the challenge they need. Might be ugly.

 
T1st

Carpenter - gets ahead 2-0 but K's swinging

Alspaugh - F8 in RCF

Aikin - 4-3 easy play for Marlow

Solid start for Clemens.

Heading to B1st with no score.

 
B1st

Baker - F8 sky high to straightaway CF

Marlow - Falls behind 0-2 before grounding weakly, 2-3, 2 outs

Johnson - K swinging

Nothing doing for UT.

Going to T2nd - no score

 
T2nd

Hermelyn - Humpback liner for L4

Neuse - triple into gap in RCF, runner on 3B with 1 out

O'Brien - runs the count full then BB (high ball 4), runners at corners with 1 out

Evans - L4 and they double O'Brien off 1B for the DP

Clemens escapes trouble.

Heading to bottom half of 2nd: 0-0

 
Cantu's approach to hitting was better at 6/7 than when he was bumped up in the lineup. Today he's batting cleanup, so that bears watching.

 
B2nd

Cantu - leadoff BB

Boswell - BB off 3-1 count, runners at 1B & 2B with no out

OU to mound to visit Hansen who is struggling to locate pitches.

Barrera - (showing bunt) lays down perfect sac bunt, 5-4, both runners advance, 1 out

Hinojosa - up 3-0 before RBI groundout, 5-3, 2 outs  (no advance for Boswell)

Shaw - K looking on a pitch that looked outside, 1 LOB

Texas grabs a run.

Going to T3rd, Horns up 1-0

 
T3rd

Ake - leadoff BB

Cantu with a quick trip out to settle Clemens

Mendenhall - sac bunt 2-3, Ake advances to 2B, 1 out

Cantu with a nice block out wide which draws Skip Johnson out to talk to Clemens.

Carpenter - deep F8 advances Ake to 3B, 2 outs

Alspaugh - RBI single - hotshot past diving Barrera goes into RF, run scores, runner on 1B with 2 outs

Aikin - singles to gap in RCF, nice play by Gurwitz to cut it off and hold him to single, Alspaugh to 3B, 2 outs

Hermelyn - F4 ends threat, 2 LOB

Sooners use A-B-C baseball and the top of their order to even the game. Both Clemens and Hansen have struggled early to locate.

On to the home half of the third, 1-1.

 
B3rd

Gurwitz - F6 goes a mile high

Baker - hit him (barely caught his jersey), runner at 1B with 1 out

<UT tries hit & run but Marlow fouls it off>

Marlow - 6-4-3 ends inning

Heading to T4th, tied at 1.

 
T4th

Neuse - full count before L9 for #1

O'Brien- another full count ends with an L9 for out number 2

Evans - another full count but this one ends with 5-3 grounder

Nothing doing for OU in the 4th.

Going to the home half, all square at 1 apiece.

 
B4th

Johnson - first pitch swinging goes L8

Cantu - BB on 5 balls  :P   runner to 1B with 1 out

Boswell - full count before single to RF, Cantu to 3B, 1 out

Barrera - K looking - 3 pitch strikeout

Hinojosa - 6-3 ends inning with 2 LOB

Going to T5th - UT 1 - OU 1

 
T5th

Ake - K swinging

Mendenhall - 6-3 on 1st pitch

Carpenter - lazy single to LF, runner aboard with 2 outs

Alspaugh - 4-3 ends inning

Easy frame for Clemens and his best of the game (in terms of command).

Going B5th - tied up at 1 run each.

 
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