Austin Wood's arm is dead

The 6th inning was killer, but Wood just compounded issues that the coaches created by:
1. Leaving Workman in after walking Mitchell (when he started him with an 0-2 count) and then throwing 3 straight bad balls to Mahtook.. looking to bunt!
2. Putting Dicharry in after that.
 
Do you have a link with proof of this assertation? Are you a doctor that evaluated him and knows this or are you ignorantly speculating and venting like a child or a Sooner would?
 
Austin Dicharry was far worse and he didn't pitch any 169 pitches dude.

But wait that doesn't fit your idiotic and baseless accusation so you will ignore that.
 
I don't think it has anything to do with the 169 against BC. I just don't think he is that great. A closer that tops out at 89 is not that scary. He relies on placement and has been unable to place the ball. Augie should have not used him after Game 1 of the CWS as it was evident he did not have command of his pitches.
 
OTOH, assume the OP's assertion is true --- let's say not permanently injured, but just dog tired dead.

I don't think we Horns fans would have been watching much college baseball the last week or so without his stellar no hit innings that night.

The kid was pumped that night, and argued strongly with the Texas coaches that he wasn't coming out.

He looked okay in the outings after that night, just not 12+ no-hit innings quality. Not many pitchers look that good at ANY time.


But sports is a constant risk to athletes, and they accept it gladly for the reward.

Just off the top of my head, a number of classic games or careers come to mind, with the athletes not complaining about the cost, examples:

Earl Campbell's career - while he knows now that he had minimal clearances of the spinal cord branches exiting through the vertebrate, which doctors have commented on recently that he must have played with significant pain SINCE HIGH SCHOOL, Earl gutted it up, played his heart out, became a Texas and national legend, and his consistent comments? "I have no regrets."

Emmitt Smith playing late in that Cowboys game with a known separated shoulder (or broken collar bone?), hitting the line time after time. A man. Went on to participate in "Dancing with the Stars." Did okay.

Name escapes me, but the ex-Marshall QB who when playing for the Carolina Panthers (?) had such a badly injured leg that his players had to CARRY him with his shoulders back onto the field to take snaps.

Chris Simms played that Bucs game, surely not knowing that his spleen was ruptured, but also surely in much pain, continued in the game.

Keri Strugg, with taped broken ankle, nails her vault, ensuring an olympic gold medal for her and her teammates

That Japanese male gymnast, with similar broken ankle, does the rings, and does a similar landing as Strugg.


Plenty of other examples of athletes pushing the envelope; they are adults.
 
The best part about the season ending is I will never have to listen to people whine about Austin Wood throwing a great game ever again.
 
169 pitches and some of you guys are so arrogant about it not being a problem.

169 pitches. That's a lot folks....
 
Ryan may be saying that, but the Rangers don't seem to be making big demands on any of their minor league pitchers. Currently, there are only 4 Ranger minor league pitchers averaging more than 6 innings a start and with more than 5 starts. No Ranger is in his league's top ten in IP, and only Blake Beaven and Richard Bleier, having thrown in two leagues, are over 80 IP for the year.
 
i love the idiots who started following the team in the cws and suddenly can diagnose all the problems.

do me a favor. compare wood's stats for the 2 weeks prior to the BC game to his stats following the BC game. anyone who actually follows the team knows he has been ineffective since the aggy series.
 
No it ain't...

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God Bless Austin Wood--he stepped up when the University needed him, regardless of what he had done before or since--like I stated before, this team had seem to overachieve this year (meant in a positive sense) than anyone would have expected--regardless, his name will always be remembered in a good way in UT baseball lore
 
No, the ump in Game 1 was not calling the low strike. He had a very high strike zone. Jungmann works the ball at the knees. When he realized he was not getting that pitch, he tried to work the ball up in the zone, but he does not have the same control and it was evident with the outside and high pitches.

Bottom line, I had a feeling that Jungmann would be fine. Wood has not been fine for a while (even before the BC game).
 
what Horns House said.

he pitched great for us this year. that said, sans the performance against BC, he was better in the first 1/2 than he was in the second.
 
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