*****Texas vs SHSU Baseball Sunday*****

[joeywa]

A sip of coffee in, and it's game day again.

Happy Texas Independence Day to all my HS buddies. Looking for a great game today.

Today's matchup will have UT RHP Lukas Schiraldi (1-1, 6.00) against the Bearcats RHP Dirk Masters (0-0, 0.90)

First pitch scheduled for 10:05 AM CST. Stick around; I'll have the lineups when I get my hands on 'em.

Hook EM!!

 

[Juan]

This SHSU team can hit.

They definitely hit better than UH.

Gonna be a serious test for the pitchers.

 

[joeywa]

Don't know how many of you are on Twitter, but I follow UT baseball. They posted that the entire team was hosted last night by the Clemens family at their home in the Houston area. The reports I've seen have all said it was a great evening and it is clear that the family loves The University!

Here's a pic, courtesy @Texas_Baseball

 

[Juan]

Wrong team but great shot

Cool setting

This tourney has a great line up next year as well, too bad we are not in it (no Rice either) -- UH, Baylor, Bugeater, LSU, Miss St. and aggy.

 

[Juan]

here we go

Mo better

 

[joeywa]

Today's Lineup:

 

[joeywa]

Cool pic Juan. That was from yesterday though right? I don't know if we're wearing those unis again today.

 

[Juan]

Yes, i think it was yesterday.

I just like that type of shot.

 

[joeywa]

Texas is wearing the all grays today.

SHSU is in all whites with an orange hat.

Texas is the Visiting Team today.

A few lineup notes:

Felts in to DH today for Barrera and Shaw in for Gurwitz.

Johnson moves up to 5-hole in the order.

The park is VERY quiet this morning.

T1

Marlow up.

1-0 dirt

1-1 look

1-2 look

2-2 dirt

Single through the right side. Gets just past a diving 2B

Payton

SAC 5-3; 1 out; Marlow advances to 2B. Very close to being a single for Payton. It was a tie at worst. Excellent bunt

CJ up

0-1

Can of corn FO8. Lazy swing results in 2nd out.

Clemens up

1-0 low

2-0 low

3-0 low

3-1 take

Walk

Johnson up; 2 out, 2 on.

1-0 up

2-0 away

3-0 away

Walk

SHSU P having a hard time finding the zone.

Meeting on the bump; looks like a quick inventory of registry gifts.

Felts up; need a base hit here

1-0 low/away

1-1 take; looked a little low to me

2-1 low/away

Deep FO8; probably about 385, unfortunately, the wall is at 404.

3 LOB

Tied going B1

 

[bbdude]

Looks like the old Baltimore Orioles uniforms out there for SHSU...

 

[bbdude]

Schiraldi in a bit of trouble here in the first.

 

[joeywa]

B1

Atwood up

0-1 swing

1-1 up/away

Single to RCF; Schiraldi left that one up in the zone.

O'Hearn up

0-1 called

1-1 away

2-1 up/away

2-2 foul down left side

Checks runner

Checks again

3-2 low

Checks runner

Checks again

Single up the middle; Payton tries to get Atwood going to 3B, throw is late; runners now on 2&3.

Azar up

1-0 in

1-1 foul

2-1

Easy grounder to CJ; and the ball gets stuck in his mitt. E6; run scores

Runners on 1&2; no outs

SHSU up 0-1

Simerly up

0-1

1-1 misses low

1-2 look

2-2 dirt

K looking; 1 out; blue calls corner

Burgess up

1-0 dirt

1-1 foul

2-1 low/away

2-2 take

3-2 low

3-2 fouled back

Walk; Schiraldi doesn't get the favorable corner call here. Bases loaded

MacWilliam up

0-1 Take

0-2 Look

0-2 foul

0-2 foul

1-2 up

1-2 foul

1-2 foul

K swinging; 2 outs

Schiraldi sitting on 35 pitches in the first inning so far.

Pierce up

1-0 low

2-0 low

2-1 lined foul down RF line

3-1 just missed low

Walk; Run scores;

SHSU 0-2

Plucheck up

Skip visits mound after 39th pitch.

 

[Juan]

If Lukas can work his way through this line-up and get us into the 6th in good shape, then it's job well done.

 

[joeywa]

Plucheck up; bases loaded; 2 outs

1-0

2-0

6-3 ends the inning. LONG inning for Schiraldi. Need to get some runs back here.

After 1 complete; 0-2 SHSU

 

[joeywa]

If Lukas can work his way through this line-up and get us into the 6th in good shape, then it's job well done.

He ain't making it to the 6th today.

 

[Juan]

Probably bad timing to say this, but I like the way SHSU plays ball.

They are fun to watch.

I like the coach.

Jus sayin.

 

[Juan]

This guy is not a UT guy, but still .....

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Fittingly, on an inning where UT had its best hitter lay down a sac bunt, the team scores no runs.</p>— John Royal (@John_Royal) <a href="

https://twitter.com/John_Royal/statuses/440156851783491584">March 2, 2014</a></blockquote><script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

 

[Hello Nasty]

5 runners left on base through 2 innings. Tough to win ballgames doing that. Especially for teams that have a hard time producing runs.

 

[joeywa]

T2

Monte up

0-1

0-2

5-3; 1 out

McGuire up

1-0

FO9; 2 outs

Shaw up

Singles to RF

Hearing a little bit of life now in the park.

Marlow up

Checks runner

1-0 away

2-0 up/away

3-0 up

3-1 take

Walk

We can get to this pitcher with a little patience. Sit on the fastball and you'll get one left up.

Payton up

0-1 take

1-1 away

2-1 low/in

3-1 dirt

3-2 look

FO8

2 LOB; got to do a better job moving runners across the plate.

0-2 SHSU; going B2