Texas vs Minnesota ***Game 1 Thread (FRI-6 PM CST)***

[joeywa]

We're up and running.

Lineups forthcoming

 

[joeywa]

Lineups:

 

[joeywa]

Joeywa remote press box is ready for action.

 

[J.B. TexasEx]

Pringles? Yuck...getcha some Cape Cod Kettle Chips at Costco

 

[joeywa]

Pringles? Yuck...getcha some Cape Cod Kettle Chips at Costco

Sitting in a hotel room in Denver.  It's fixin to start snowing.  I've got 13 mins to first pitch.  I'm taking whatever I could get in the hotel "Market." 

 

[HornSports Staff]

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[joeywa]

French on the hill.

Texas comes out wearing their white caps, white jerseys with burnt orange sleeves underneath, white pants and burnt orange socks.

Minnesota wearing maroon caps, maroon jerseys with gold lettering, gray pants and maroon socks

Temp at 69 degrees with a bit of a south wind gusting outward towards LF/LCF

 

[utisdabomb12]

Anyone else having trouble with sound on LHN?

 

[joeywa]

T1

Motl

5-3 on the first pitch.

1 down

Schaefbauer

0-1 takes a heater down the pipe

0-2 fouled away

1-2 away

2-2 up

2-2 fouled into seats down LF line.  Wind really affecting fly balls early

6-3;

2 away

Good seeing the hustle of Cantu backing up 1B

Fielder

0-1 take

5-3 great diving play

1-2-3

Going B1, no score

 

[Matt Cotcher]

From watching Ben Meyer (UMinn's starter) warm-up:

Tall & thin, RHP with a good (not great) FB that he controls really well. 3 pitches - slider & circle change but his go to pitch is the FB.

 

[joeywa]

Anyone else having trouble with sound on LHN?

Not I, but I'm streaming it through the iPad. 

 

[utisdabomb12]

Not I, but I'm streaming it through the iPad. 

Must just be time warner. I have sound on all the other channels, but not LHN. 

 

[joeywa]

B1

Johnson

0-1 fouled away into seats   1B side

0-2 chases a pitch up and gets a piece of it; foul tip

1-2 up

2-2 low

Line drive into RF; diving attempt by RF and ball gets by and goes to RF fence.

Triple

 

[utisdabomb12]

Johnson is killing the ball. 

 

[joeywa]

B1 (cont)

By the way, Johnson is REALLY fast.

Shaw

0-1 fouled into 3B seats

0-2 foul

0-2 foul

0-2 foul; Shaw hacking and battling

1-2 low/in

2-2 low/in

0-2 fouled back off C

FC 4-3 RBI

1 out

Texas up 1-0

 

[Matt Cotcher]

I appreciate their RF'ers effort & desire to make a diving catch, but that's not smart baseball. When your team is 0-3 and has the statistics to back up the record, the last thing you want to do is play from behind.

It's 1-0 already and now you're facing a quality pitcher and a top 10 team with a deficit.

 

[joeywa]

B1 (cont) 1 out

CJ

0-1 takes one on the paint of the outside of the plate

0-2 takes one down the pipe-knee high

1-2 down

Single back up the middle into CF for a hit

That pitch was way down in the zone and he battles to put it into play.

 

[joeywa]

B1 (cont) 1 out, 1 on

Marlow

1-0 down

2-0 misses away

2-1 fouled down 1B side

FO5 to in foul territory off 3B; nice over the shoulder

2 outs; CJ stays

Tres

0-1 take; breaking ball finds inside corner

0-2 fouled up and back

1-2 low/away-CJ steals 2B uncontested

2-2 away

3-2 down

Line drive RBI single into CF

Texas up 2-0