Will Baizer
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Texas Drops the Red River Sweep After Losing Game 3 to the Sooners 2-1
By Will Baizer
It’s a disappointed Sunday for the Longhorns baseball team as they came into the day hoping for a sweep, but
Texas falls to Oklahoma 1-2 in the 3rd game of the series.
It appeared that Texas used up all their offense in the first two games of the series as their bats just couldn’t find balls, and the balls they did hit went straight to the defense.
The day started out well for Texas as in the bottom of the 1st, Kacy Clemens (0-1 RBI) hit a sacrifice fly to score his younger brother Kody Clemens (1-4) to take an early lead on their Red River rival.
That would be the last of the scoring for the Longhorns as they went on to hit 0-5 with RISP, 1-10 with 2 outs, 2-12 with runners on the bases, and .172 for the entire game. It’s just a continued story of inconsistency for the bats as
Texas now owns the 3rd worst batting average during conference play with .214.
Losing Kacy Clemens in the bottom of the 4th inning didn’t help. Kacy was thrown out of the game for arguing a called strike three. Kacy Clemens disagreed with the umpire, turned around, walked back to the dugout, and said, “That was so bad.†Apparently, this rubbed home plate ump David Wiley the wrong way and he immediately tossed the Longhorns’ star 1st baseman. Fans may remember David Wiley as the ump who called 3 balks in the Texas vs Texas A&M game.
Kacy Clemens will now have to sit out the game vs Texas State Tuesday at Disch-Falk Field.
After that, it was all pitching for the two teams. Texas’ pitching was good, but a little wild. Kyle Johnston pitched through 6 innings, recording 4 Ks on 92 pitches, but also giving up 5 walks. Kyle Johnston gave the Longhorns a great chance to win. David Pierce praised his starter after the game, “The thing that I see more than anything, so far with our starting pitching is they continue to give us an opportunity to win the game. His stuff was good. Occasionally he got around the ball. For the most part he really pitched down in the zone… I was really proud of what he did. He gave us a chance.â€
In fact, Texas currently has the 2nd best staff ERA in Big XII conference play with a team ERA of 2.80.
While Johnston did not bring his best stuff to the mound Sunday, it was just enough to keep the Longhorns in the lead… Until the 6th inning.
After back to back walks, Kyle Johnston put himself into a jam with two runners on and only 1 out. He then left a ball a little too far over the plate and OU’s Renae Martinez (2-3 RBI), knocked the ball into right center field to tie the ball game up.
Kyle Johnston was done, so David Pierce decided to bring in Chase Shugart to maintain the tie. Shugart started off the inning by nailing Kyle Mendenhall (0-2) in the head and letting Ben Hollas (1-4 RBI) get a ball to fall into the left center field to get the winning RBI double.
Oklahoma’s Nathan Wiles (2.61 ERA) got the game started off only allowing 1 ER while getting 4 Ks off of 67 pitches through 4⅔ innings. But the guy who really got the Longhorns guessing was reliever Connor Berry (0.93 ERA) who got the win after pitching 3⅓ inning and recording 5 Ks off of 41 pitches.
Just a frustrating day against Connor Berry for the Longhorns. Berry was able to get the Texas batters to lose their patience in the batter’s box and swing at balls in the dirt to end the game.
Texas had chances to take the tie the game and even take the lead back with multiple runners in scoring position, but just couldn’t figure out Connor Berry.
Texas falls to 22-13 on the season and 6-6 in conference play.
Texas still takes the series 2-1 against their #14 ranked rivals, which will help them come postseason time.
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It's a cool cloudy 75°F here at the Disch. The wind is blowing straight center field (and a little to the left) out of the park.
Texas is wearing the throw backs today. Cream pants, cream tops, cream caps with the orange brim. Texas in cursive across the chest and cream socks withe the burnt orange piping
Sooners in the gray tops, gray bottoms, cursive Sooners across the chest with the underline. Crimson caps.
Texas looking for the sweep.
It's a good day.
http://www.ousucks.com/
By Will Baizer
It’s a disappointed Sunday for the Longhorns baseball team as they came into the day hoping for a sweep, but
Texas falls to Oklahoma 1-2 in the 3rd game of the series.
It appeared that Texas used up all their offense in the first two games of the series as their bats just couldn’t find balls, and the balls they did hit went straight to the defense.
The day started out well for Texas as in the bottom of the 1st, Kacy Clemens (0-1 RBI) hit a sacrifice fly to score his younger brother Kody Clemens (1-4) to take an early lead on their Red River rival.
That would be the last of the scoring for the Longhorns as they went on to hit 0-5 with RISP, 1-10 with 2 outs, 2-12 with runners on the bases, and .172 for the entire game. It’s just a continued story of inconsistency for the bats as
Texas now owns the 3rd worst batting average during conference play with .214.
Losing Kacy Clemens in the bottom of the 4th inning didn’t help. Kacy was thrown out of the game for arguing a called strike three. Kacy Clemens disagreed with the umpire, turned around, walked back to the dugout, and said, “That was so bad.†Apparently, this rubbed home plate ump David Wiley the wrong way and he immediately tossed the Longhorns’ star 1st baseman. Fans may remember David Wiley as the ump who called 3 balks in the Texas vs Texas A&M game.
Kacy Clemens will now have to sit out the game vs Texas State Tuesday at Disch-Falk Field.
After that, it was all pitching for the two teams. Texas’ pitching was good, but a little wild. Kyle Johnston pitched through 6 innings, recording 4 Ks on 92 pitches, but also giving up 5 walks. Kyle Johnston gave the Longhorns a great chance to win. David Pierce praised his starter after the game, “The thing that I see more than anything, so far with our starting pitching is they continue to give us an opportunity to win the game. His stuff was good. Occasionally he got around the ball. For the most part he really pitched down in the zone… I was really proud of what he did. He gave us a chance.â€
In fact, Texas currently has the 2nd best staff ERA in Big XII conference play with a team ERA of 2.80.
While Johnston did not bring his best stuff to the mound Sunday, it was just enough to keep the Longhorns in the lead… Until the 6th inning.
After back to back walks, Kyle Johnston put himself into a jam with two runners on and only 1 out. He then left a ball a little too far over the plate and OU’s Renae Martinez (2-3 RBI), knocked the ball into right center field to tie the ball game up.
Kyle Johnston was done, so David Pierce decided to bring in Chase Shugart to maintain the tie. Shugart started off the inning by nailing Kyle Mendenhall (0-2) in the head and letting Ben Hollas (1-4 RBI) get a ball to fall into the left center field to get the winning RBI double.
Oklahoma’s Nathan Wiles (2.61 ERA) got the game started off only allowing 1 ER while getting 4 Ks off of 67 pitches through 4⅔ innings. But the guy who really got the Longhorns guessing was reliever Connor Berry (0.93 ERA) who got the win after pitching 3⅓ inning and recording 5 Ks off of 41 pitches.
Just a frustrating day against Connor Berry for the Longhorns. Berry was able to get the Texas batters to lose their patience in the batter’s box and swing at balls in the dirt to end the game.
Texas had chances to take the tie the game and even take the lead back with multiple runners in scoring position, but just couldn’t figure out Connor Berry.
Texas falls to 22-13 on the season and 6-6 in conference play.
Texas still takes the series 2-1 against their #14 ranked rivals, which will help them come postseason time.
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It's a cool cloudy 75°F here at the Disch. The wind is blowing straight center field (and a little to the left) out of the park.
Texas is wearing the throw backs today. Cream pants, cream tops, cream caps with the orange brim. Texas in cursive across the chest and cream socks withe the burnt orange piping
Sooners in the gray tops, gray bottoms, cursive Sooners across the chest with the underline. Crimson caps.
Texas looking for the sweep.
It's a good day.
http://www.ousucks.com/
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