***Texas vs. Rice Baseball - Game 1***

[joeywa]

B8 cont

Situation: 1 out; Runner on 1B; Meyers up with a 2-1 count

Meyers

2-1

Grounder to 3B; 5-4 to get the lead runner, and Blue calls him safe!  WOW!  Maybe Marlow pulled his foot from the bag?  Replay?  Maybe?  No.  Meyers reaches on the FC.  Don't believe that call, but the coverage sucks so bad you couldn't see the play clearly

Kopycinski

0-1

1-1 away

1-2 take

6-3 DP inning ends.

Grounder to CJ and that'll work.

1 LOB

Texas goes to T9 leading 3-1

 

[utisdabomb12]

Huge double play by Texas. 

 

[Matt Cotcher]

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[Aaron Carrara]

Beautiful and timely double play.

 

[joeywa]

Seriously great job.  Maybe comment from time to time if you can see / think a pitcher might be starting to get tired, a lot of activity in our bullpen or the oponenet or a lot of obvious emotion in the dugout by one team or the other, etc. ... that kind of thing would be interesting.

Hook 'Em!!

Thanks.  I'll work on it.  Usually with LHN broadcasts I can see those things more clearly.  This coverage blows.  Not only is the stream quality poor, the camera work exceeds the stream quality in suckage. 

 

[utisdabomb12]

Have to love Augie's confidence rolling with a Freshman in that situation. 

 

[Worster1]

OK Horns let's close the books on this 1st game of the series!

 

[MikeV73]

Thanks. I'll work on it. Usually with LHN broadcasts I can see those things more clearly. This coverage blows. Not only is the stream quality poor, the camera work exceeds the stream quality in suckage.

Wait, Joey isn't at the game? What kind of play by play guy are we paying here? Oh, your not being paid, my bad. Seriously though, thanks for being our eye in the sky and bringing us coverage of the game. Can't wait to see some TV coverage to go along with our HS compadres baseball expertise this season!

 

[joeywa]

T9

RHP Glenn Otto to the hill for Rice

Johnson leading off

0-1 take

0-2 swing

1-2 up/in

K swinging; that pitch was sizzling

Shaw

0-1 take

0-2 foul

1-2 up

K swinging; another hot heater-93 MPH

CJ;

Would love to see something big by CJ here; he's been making solid contact all game.

0-1 fouled away

1-1 low/in

1-2 takes a curve

1-2 foul

K swinging

Texas goes down 1-2-3 in the 9th.

Horns lead 3-1 heading B9

 

[utisdabomb12]

We thinking Augie and Skip stick with the Freshman? 

 

[joeywa]

Wait, Joey isn't at the game? What kind of play by play guy are we paying here? Oh, your not being paid, my bad. Seriously though, thanks for being our eye in the sky and bringing us coverage of the game. Can't wait to see some TV coverage to go along with our HS compadres baseball expertise this season!

You remember in Bull Durham when the announcer is taking the plays from his assistant gal, then whacking the counter with a hammer for a hit and announcing it into the microphone?  That's me. 

 

[utisdabomb12]

Culbreth on the mound. 

 

[joeywa]

B9

JR LHP Ty Culbreth in to close this out.

Lewis

0-1 take

1-1

F9

1 out

Chandler

1-0

2-0 up/in

2-1 take

2-2

K looking; nasty hook!

2 outs

Stainback

0-1 takes the breaking ball

1-1 low

2-1 up

3-1

3-2 take

3-2 fouled away

F9

Horn win 3-1

 

[utisdabomb12]

A very good RPI win for Texas to start the season. Pitching is still great and I was actually impressed with our bats tonight. 

 

[Matt Cotcher]

I know people will look at the box score and see all those K's and fear the worst. 2 things to keep in mind:

1. It takes a few games to get timing down at the plate. BP and intersquads will only get you so far. This is compounded by quality Rice pitching.

2. Almost every K was swinging. That's a real positive from a plate approach/mentality standpoint. It also goes back to point #1...that aggressive approach will pay dividends when timing is improved.

 

[joeywa]

Final Book:

Texas 3/6/1

Rice 1/10/2

WP Duke (1-0)

LP McCarthy (0-1)

SV Culbreth

 

[Matt Cotcher]

Nice work, joeywa. Thank you. Go grab a beer - stat!

 

[streettopeschel]

excellent start.

 

[joeywa]

I know people will look at the box score and see all those K's and fear the worst. 2 things to keep in mind:

1. It takes a few games to get timing down at the plate. BP and intersquads will only get you so far. This is compounded by quality Rice pitching.

2. Almost every K was swinging. That's a real positive from a plate approach/mentality standpoint. It also goes back to point #1...that aggressive approach will pay dividends when timing is improved.

Amen.  And Amen. 

 

[joeywa]

Nice work, joeywa. Thank you. Go grab a beer - stat!

I'm on it!