***Official Texas vs UTSA Baseball Thread 7PM CST LHN***

[joeywa]

B5

Horns get a 2-out walk from Shaw, but that's it.

Trailing 8-6 thru 5

 

[HORNfromETX]

Why is DJ not catching this year?

 

[joeywa]

T6

UTSA adds another and now leads 9-6

Headed B6

 

[joeywa]

Why is DJ not catching this year?

Shoulder isn't 100%

 

[joeywa]

B6

Horns get a single from Ford, but nothing else.

Horns trail 9-6 thru 6

 

[HORNfromETX]

Brutal game for Texas.

 

[joeywa]

T7

UTSA adds a run;

B7

Horns get two base runners but can't do anything with them.

Thru 7, Horns trail 10-7

 

[dillohorn]

This has been brutely pathetic. A game to forget.

 

[java]

True. 

Now, please mute Galindo. 

 

[joeywa]

Kubicheck in for Texas in T8 and gets a 1-2-3 frame

Horns trail 10-6 headed B8

 

[java]

A Mohawk under a baseball cap looks like crap!

 

[joeywa]

B8

Horns get a 2-out walk from McCann, but a hot liner right to the P from Ellis ends the 8th

Horns trail 10-6 thru 8 complete

 

[MikeV73]

A Mohawk under a baseball cap looks like crap!

A Mohawk not on Mr T’s head looks like crap.

 

[joeywa]

T9

Kubichek gets 2 Ks, gives up a single and an E4, but holds off UTSA in the 9th

Headed B9, Horns need 5, trailing 10-6

 

[joeywa]

Horns manage 1 in B9, but with a runner on 2B and 2 outs, Shaw hits a comebacker to end it.

See y'all Friday.

 

[Bear19]

Walks and errors lose ballgames. 

 

[Johnstark23]

I’m never one to say there is a such thing as a good loss, but this is certainly a teaching loss if I’ve ever seen one. If you are going to be successful you have got to throw strikes and catch the f’n baseball. There are people that lost jobs tonight and sometimes that is better for a coach than someone winning a job. 

 

[joeywa]

I’m never one to say there is a such thing as a good loss, but this is certainly a teaching loss if I’ve ever seen one. If you are going to be successful you have got to throw strikes and catch the f’n baseball. There are people that lost jobs tonight and sometimes that is better for a coach than someone winning a job. 

I tend to agree. Also, I have a feeling this type of loss came at a very good time.  Gives Pierce & co a chance to use it as a very good teaching moment. 

 

[MikeV73]

21 minutes ago, joeywa said:

I tend to agree. Also, I have a feeling this type of loss came at a very good time.  Gives Pierce & co a chance to use it as a very good teaching moment. 

So like aggy we had the best loss of ranked teams tonight, and we are winners if multiple big 12 teams won! Big12Big12Big12!!!!  

 

[joeywa]

So like aggy we had the best loss of ranked teams tonight, and we are winners if multiple big 12 teams won! Big12Big12Big12!!!!  

Wow. How’s the view from that limb?  

The point of my post was that good teams lose to lesser talented teams from time to time, and it can happen in midweek games.  Big D1 teams typically use midweek matchups, especially early in the season, to get looks at young players that don’t get time in big weekend series. The smaller schools often will play their best lineup in these games, including, as we saw tonight, throwing a weekend starter. It happens, and as in the tweet, you can see it’s not out of the norm. Sam Houston St was up 10-3 on TCU tonight before the game was called due to fog. 

My post was in no way trying to call this some kind of moral victory. It’s a loss. A bad loss, but one that offers a lot of opportunities for this staff to talk to the players about in the coming days.