****Texas @ Texas Tech-Sunday Baseball Game Thread****

[streettopeschel]

To borrow from Gerald Ford, our long national nightmare is over.

Yes...I'm equating our baseball team winning a series to nixons resignation post-watergate. It's that important.

 

[Johnstark23]

To borrow from Gerald Ford, our long national nightmare is over.
Yes...I'm equating our baseball team winning a series to nixons resignation post-watergate. It's that important.

Amen Street. Amen.

 

[streettopeschel]

Amen Street. Amen.

I was gonna go mlk with a 'free at last, thank God almighty we're free at last' but I thought that was a little much.

 

[Johnstark23]

I was gonna go mlk with a 'free at last, thank God almighty we're free at last' but I thought that was a little much.

Funny enough that's what I was going to reply but I agreed a little much.

 

[More Cowbell]

Not sure if Augie pulled Clemens due to his bat or his glove, but Silver's play to cut down the runner at 3rd was the play of the year so far for me. Not sure Kacy makes that play. Big assist to Gurwitz stretching to get the runner. I got in laws that are Red Raiders so I'm happy to get that series win under our belt.

 

[armadillo slim]

i think augie was just playing the righty v lefty game but of course it didn't matter because silver took three strikes looking and then went and sat down. that was a good play though. he had him out at third by a good margin. i knew they'd win the game when they got out of that jam. that was huge.

 

[JimR]

Thank you for the cover slim but I am still red-faced about my 'throwing darts' comment in the bottom of the ninth.
I am giving up cigars,liquor and pussy for one week.

That's my story and I am sticking to it.

Well, at least two out of three.

you'll be ok without the cigars.

 

[utisdabomb12]

Not sure if Augie pulled Clemens due to his bat or his glove, but Silver's play to cut down the runner at 3rd was the play of the year so far for me. Not sure Kacy makes that play. Big assist to Gurwitz stretching to get the runner. I got in laws that are Red Raiders so I'm happy to get that series win under our belt.

He pulled Clemens in that situation because Silver is a better bunter. They were running a safety squeeze with Silver, but he couldn't get the bunt down. I agree though that the Silver play to cut down the runner at 3rd was a big play.

 

[McQ]

I have a confession to make. After watching the whole game and then the 9th inning home plate steal to tie it, I was a bit frustrated. In the bottom of the 10th with 1 out and a runner on second, I turned off the game. My bad guys.

They had so many base runners during that game that didn't score, I thought they were due, but our boys held out.

 

[Bear19]

Don't feel bad McQ.

I turned off the game in the bottom of the ninth because I jinxed us.

Was hoping that would be the reverse jinx.

Thank God for DVR.

 

[utisdabomb12]

I just saw a replay of that steal home in the 9th. The game should have been over. Curtiss just lobbed the ball to the plate to try and get the runner out at home. The thing is, he threw it right down the middle of the plate. Barrera dropped the ball, but it was still a strike. The game should have been over, as that was strike three. Crazy, I didn't even notice that.

 

[utisdabomb12]

Actually, Barrera didn't even drop the ball. It was right down the middle, game should have been over.

 

[Bear19]

I agree. Also why was the balk called when our pitcher's first move was to step off of the rubber and put his foot behind it. That should take away any balk call.

 

[JimR]

not sure that is right. it looks like Barrera jumped out in front of the plate to try to make a tag.

I do not think the ball reached the plate.

 

[utisdabomb12]

not sure that is right. it looks like Barrera jumped out in front of the plate to try to make a tag.

He jumps up but it looks like the ball crosses the plate to me (his movement forward really doesn't take place until he tries to make the tag). It's close, you could very well be right. That's the only thing that could potentially prevent it from being a strike, because the ball was right down the heart of the plate. Granted, if Barrera just stays in position the strike may have been called.

I'm pretty sure the ump just called it a ball though, because there wasn't a catcher's balk called. If the ump thought the catcher caught the ball outside of the box, a balk should have been called. I didn't see that signal from the ump. Which tells me he thought it was just a ball. If I recall a cather's balk would give the batter first base, so I'm almost positive it wasn't called. If a catcher's balk wasn't called, that's a strike.

 

[JimR]

He jumps up but it looks like the ball crosses the plate to me (his movement forward really doesn't take place until he tries to make the tag). It's close. That's the only thing that could potentially prevent it from being a strike, because the ball was right down the heart of the plate. Granted, if Barrera just stays in position the strike may have been called.

we disagree on where he was when he caught the ball.

 

[joeywa]

not sure that is right. it looks like Barrera jumped out in front of the plate to try to make a tag.

That's how I saw it. Ball didn't have a chance to cross the plate.

Had Tres let the ball come across the plate, the run scores and the K happens.

Still don't know why Curtiss is throwing from the windup there.

Also, why does he not plunk the batter. Dead ball, runner goes back to 3B, as long as runner doesn't cross home before the plunk.

I do know there was a lot going on with that play, and there's room for plenty of armchair quarterbacking. Hopefully they learn from it and I'm glad we got the win.

 

[JimR]

That's how I saw it. Ball didn't have a chance to cross the plate. Had Tres let the ball come across the plate, the run scores and the K happens.

Still don't know why Curtiss is throwing from the windup there.

Also, why does he not plunk the batter. Dead ball, runner goes back to 3B, as long as runner doesn't cross home before the plunk.

I do know there was a lot going on with that play, and there's room for plenty of armchair quarterbacking. Hopefully they learn from it and I'm glad we got the win.

answers? I got answers.

the windup was not the culprit. he did not freeze the runner by looking directly at him before starting into the windup. the runner got a walking lead that Curtis never stopped and a running jump that was guaranteed to make it.

what if he tries to hit him and misses? a wild pitch would have scored both runners. he either pitches out or tries to get the third strike. Barrera prevented that, imo.

what Curtis should learn is to stop the runner before winding up if he is not going to pitch from the stretch.

 

[utisdabomb12]

That's how I saw it. Ball didn't have a chance to cross the plate. Had Tres let the ball come across the plate, the run scores and the K happens.

Still don't know why Curtiss is throwing from the windup there.

Also, why does he not plunk the batter. Dead ball, runner goes back to 3B, as long as runner doesn't cross home before the plunk.

I do know there was a lot going on with that play, and there's room for plenty of armchair quarterbacking. Hopefully they learn from it and I'm glad we got the win.

It's a missed call by the ump then. Because if Tres catches the ball in front of the plate that's a catcher's balk. Which means the batter should have been awarded first and all runners should have moved up. I know we are splitting hairs here, but if a catcher's balk isn't called that's a strike.

 

[joeywa]

Good points on both.