Big XII Baseball Tournament

[p_town_horn]

Horns blowing a ton of chances, this is last Thursday all over again as Texas is finding ways to blow this game.

That is just offensively. WVa has a run on a wild pitch and is threatening with a second run off of a wild pitch

 

[p_town_horn]

Bottom of the 8th. Horns strand a WVa runner at third

 

[p_town_horn]

Antico singles and steals second

Daly strikes out

Runner on second 1 out

 

[p_town_horn]

Zubia strikes out

2 out runner on 2nd

 

[FWHORN]

Horns watch two strike threes that were down and away but ump rings them up. Bad calls but if you know he is calling that a strike you have to freaking swing. WVU pitcher is at 123 pitches.

 

[SabreHorn]

you have to freaking swing.

But that takes so much energy and it's past dinner time.

 

[p_town_horn]

Melendez strikes out - WVa strikes out the side in the 8th with a runner in scoring position

 

[p_town_horn]

Top of the 9th

WVa walkes and gournds out to second

Runner on 1st with 1 out

 

[zuckercanyon]

West Virginia needs wins more than Texas does. Go home and rest and wait for the national seedings. Winning this tournament does nothing for Texas.

 

[FWHORN]

Triple plates a fourth run for WVU.

 

[p_town_horn]

Triple to right center

WVa leads 4-1 2 outs runner on third

 

[p_town_horn]

Go home and rest and wait

It seems the team has already followed this advice

They did not show up today

 

[FWHORN]

Wild Pitch makes it 5-1

 

[p_town_horn]

WVa double to right

5-1

Texas gets the final out

Headed to the bottom of the 9th down by 4

 

[FWHORN]

Horns appear to have mailed this one in as bloop to right becomes a double. Headed to bottom of the ninth it’s 5-1 and unless Horns get a huge inning they will have to get an early start tomorrow as loser bracket game is at 12:30 against either OU or OSU.

 

[Chinstrap]

Horns watch two strike threes that were down and away but ump rings them up. Bad calls but if you know he is calling that a strike you have to freaking swing. WVU pitcher is at 123 pitches.

Having played and coached a lot of years of baseball, nothing upsets me like taking on the third strike, especially in close games with a ump who has a f- - -ed up strike zone.

I once had an ump try to tell me about his strike zone. He got a prolonged explanation about baseball’s strike zone and why He Did Not have a strike zone.

 

[p_town_horn]

Williams strikes out

That's 4 Ks in a row for the horns

 

[FWHORN]

The ump tonight has been awful with his zone but he has consistently called that low and away ball a strike and Texas has never adjusted.

 

[p_town_horn]

Texas grounds into double play to end it

WVa wins 5-1

 

[FWHORN]

Double play ends game 5-1.

 

[FWHORN]

Burn the tape, just put it behind you and move on.

 

[Creek]

Bourbon thoughts::

Well this team suffers against great pitching.

I assume we will beat WVa again when they are full of dead arms.
Better to get a shocker loss here than in the 1 vs 4 game in the regional.
If we go 2-2 we’ll probably hold onto 2nd or 3rd seed depending on Vandy..

 

[pluckeye]

If we can't see it on TV (absent an ESPN+ sub) is there a way to get it on the radio?

I _think_ you may be able to stream it on your computer. Craig Way was broadcasting it on 104.9 FM The Horn. Go here and I think it's the live stream:

Listen to The Horn on TuneIn

 

[pluckeye]

Or, go here, and click the "Listen Live" link in the upper-right hand corner...

https://hornfm.com/

 

[FWHORN]

Wednesday review:

No. 2 Baseball drops Big 12 Championship opener - University of Texas Athletics

No. 1 seed Texas falls flat against No. 8 seed West Virginia in 5-1 loss

 

[old65horn]

My main concern is Madden and Williams.

We need pre OSU Madden and somebody to teach Williams the little league fundamentals of base running.

In Madden 2 starts against WV, he has pitched 12.2 innings, given up 8 earned runs aa well as 4 HR.
I calculate that to a 5.9 ERA. That will not win many games in the playoffs.

 

[giveemhell]

Surprised there's so much resistance here to an ESPN+ subscription. Before next season, go buy yourselves a $30 Roku device. Sign up for ESPN+ for $5.99/month on April 1st and then cancel it at the end of May. You'll get a ton of UT baseball (most of the road games + B12 tournament) for a measly $12.

 

[zuckercanyon]

I forgot it’s double elimination

 

[FWHORN]

Horns are back on field today at 12:30 to face OU in the losers bracket. Texas needs a couple of wins to absolutely lock up a top 4 national seed, if they go 2 and Q I could see them falling to a 6-8 national seed and having a higher ranked two seed in their regional and then having to face a tougher super regional.

 

[zuckercanyon]

Horns are back on field today at 12:30 to face OU. Texas needs a couple of wins to absolutely lock up a top 4 national seed, if they go 2 and Q I could see them falling to a 6-8 national seed and having a higher ranked two seed in their regional and then having to face a tougher super regional.

Has it ever been proven that your seed makes a difference in the CWS or super? No matter what, just win, baby!