OU vs Texas Game 1

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Really big home series against the best team in the conference. OU could pull away and take a commanding lead in the conference and help bury Texas.

Or Texas could get back in the race and bring OU back to the rest of the pack.

French trying to bounce back from injury against the best starting pitcher in the conference in Gray.

Need two of three somehow to keep from playing catch up in the conference. OU has good hitting and the one weak spot seems to be a Sunday starter. They have had problems with that and even lost to Kansas 10-7 last Sunday.

Texas has owned this series the last several years and need French to get back to form to set the tone for the series.
 
French K's the first hitter swinging after falling behind 3-1 for the first out.

Next hitter bloops a single to left just over C.J.'s glove to put a runner on.

Another single up the middle well struck puts runners on the corners.

A SF scores the run to make it 1-0 OU.

Ground ball to Weis ends the inning.

OU leads 1-0 with Texas coming to bat.
Need good at bats against Gray as he gets an early lead.
 
Johnson K's swinging for out one.

Lost the feed for a minute.

Hall grounded out for the second out it seems.

Weis with a two out hit is on second.

Payton K's to end the inning and strand a runner in scoring position. Can't much of that tonight.
 
French K's swinging the leadoff hitter for out one.

Ground ball to Hinojosa and his throw is off, but Silver gets the tag for out two.

Single by Hinojosa puts a runner on at first.

A walk puts runners at first and second.

A wild pitch moves the runner to third as runner at first held.

2-0 count on the hitter brings Skip out to the hill.
French not real sharp again and walks the batter to
load the bases.

Ground ball to second is a big third out to get out of the jam and keep the game from getting out of hand.

Bottom of the second now and OU leads 1-0.
 
Hinojosa leads off and K's looking on a full count for out one.

Silver grounds out to third for out two.

Marlow K's looking for the third out.

OU leads 1-0 after two complete.
 
French gets a pop up to short for out one in the top of the third.

He may be settling down some now.

Comebacker to French is the second out.

Ground ball to Weis at third ends the inning.

To the bottom of three now OU leads still 1-0.
 
Felts leads off and flies out to center for out one.

Gottsacker playing left tonight singles back up the middle for his first hit as a Horn.

Johnson up for the second time flies out to center as Gottsacker surpises OU and tags and moves to second.

Now Gottsacker moves up to third on a wild pitch.

Hall with a chance to tie the game,

Another wild pitch scores Gottsacker with some heads up base running to tie it at 1.

Hall K's looking to end the inning.
Good base running by Gottsacker manufactures a run and it's now tied a 1 after three innings.
 
French with a ground ball up the middle and Hinojosa fields, but his throw pulls Silver off the bag and it's called an error. Was a pretty tough error.

Felts picks the runner off first for out one.

Single to left puts a runner back on first.

Fly ball to shallow left is out two.

Ground ball to Marlow at second ends the inning.

To the bottom of four now tied at 1.
 
Weis pops out to second to start the inning.

Payton K's swinging for the second time tonight for out two.
Hinojosa lines to center and they say the center fielder trapped the ball, but he didn't.

Hinojosa with the gift single at first.

Silver with a line drive legit single to center to put runners at first and second.


Marlow grounds out to first to end the inning and make sure there is no contraversy over the play in center.

Tied at 1 after four complete.
 
French out in the fifth and he K's the lead off hitter swinging for out one.

Ground ball to second for out two.

Fly ball to left ends the inning as OU is down in order.

Good inning for French to be eligible for the win now.

Half way through still tied at 1.
 
Felts grounds one up the middle and the second baseman dives and makes the play and from his knees throws out Felts for out one.

Great play.

Gottsacker is nailed by a pitch to put a runner on first.

Johnson grounds a ball up the middle that the second baseman fields and tags Gottsacker, but the relay is late.

Johnson at first with two down.

Hall is up and the first pitch gets away from the catcher who picks it up and throws out Johnson trying to advance by 5 feet. He didn't read that very well.

After five innings tied still at 1.
 
Little chopper to Weis who fields and just gets the batter for out one.

Ground ball on the left side again that Weis dives in front of Hinojosa and knocks down, but there is no play and it's an infield hit to put a man on.

A walk puts men on first and second and here comes Skip and that's all for French.

Marlow in to pitch now.

Single up the middle and it scores a run and OU leads now 2-1.

Double steal attempt and Felts throws out the runner at third for the second out.

Weis was spiked on the play, but is up now.

Runner on second with two down.

Fly out to left ends the inning.

Bottom the sixth coming and OU now leads 2-1.
 
Hall who was at bat when Johnson was thrown out leads off and K's swinging.

Weis with a line single to right for his second hit is now on first.

Payton up now and Weis steals second to get in scoring position.

Pitching coach out to the mound for OU.

Payton back in now and walks and it looks like the pitching coach said to not give him anything to hit though he had already K'd twice.

Hinojosa walks to load the bases.

Silver up and you just can't waste this chance.

Silver K's looking on three pitches.

Marlow grounds out to second to end the inning.

Remember this inning if Texas can't come back

OU leads still 2-1 after six complete.
 
Marlow still in gets a ground ball to second for out one.

A grounder to Weis is out two.

A walk puts a runner on first and he may well be going.

A comebacker to Marlow ends the inning as they never gave the runner a chance to steal.

Going to the stretch now and OU leads 2-1.
 
Man, this team just cannot hit in the clutch.
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Gray is over 100 pitches now and he is still on the hill.

Felts leads off and grounds out to short for the first out.

Gottsacker with a grounder up the middle and he beats it out for his second hit tonight and he has been on each time also with a HBP.

Johnson singles up the middle but Gottsacker held up and now there is runners on second and first.

More chances to score than I expected and we need to take advantage of one.

Hall tries to bunt for a hit but is thrown out by the third baseman as the runners advance.

Weis is up and Augie calls the offensive TO to talk to him
Another chance to take to tie or take the lead with one of your best hitters up.

Out comes the OU coach and Gray is gone for a lefty to face Weis and hopefully Payton.
 
Weis K's swinging on a full count pitch to end the inning.

Five runners left on in the last two innings.

It's the OSU series all over again.

OU leads 2-1 after seven innings.
 
Urban comes in to pitch the eight and gets a fly ball to right for out one. This guy has a 30 game hitting streak and that may have ended it.

Urban K's the next man for out two.

A fly ball down the line in right drops for a hit and Payton fields and guns out the runner trying to stretch it into a double to end the inning.

To the bottom of the eighth OU leads 2-1.

Looks like the Hinojosa missed the tag, but the play stands.
 
Payton leads off and flies out to left and his 16 game hitting streak may be over as well.

Hinojosa with a single up the middle to put another runner on for the Horns.

Silver K's again this time swinging for out two.

That's 10 strikeouts for OU pitching now.

Marlow looked totally overmatched and K's looking to end the inning.

Eight innings in the books and OU leads 2-1.
 
Urban back out again and after a 1-2 count walks the leadoff hitter to put a man on.

A sac bunt moves him up to second with one away.

Here comes Skip and Duke is coming in to face a lefty hitter.
 
Duke hits the batter on a 1-2 count to put runners on first and second.

Here comes Skip again and now Hollingsworth will come in to face the righty hitter.

Runners on first and second with one out.
 
Hard one hopper back to Hollingsworth and he knocks it down and picks it up throws to second and Hinojosa with a laser to first completes the 1-6-3 double play to get out of the inning.

OU leads 2-1 to bottom of the ninth.

OU brings in their closer and Texas has three outs to prevent another very frustrating loss.
 
Felts leads off and makes it an even dozen K's as he goes down swinging for out one.

Gottsacker up has been on three times tonight, but not this time as he grounds out to short.

Johnson is the last hope and he fouls out to right field to end the game and OU wins 2-1.

What can you say? Texas actually outhit OU 8-7 all singles though.

Gray didn't have his best stuff and we had multiple chances to win the game and just didn't again.

Texas pitching was very good as usual, but wasn't perfect and you nearly have to be it seems to win.

Backs up against the wall now as Texas falls into last place in the conference at 2-5.
 
Damn. A tough loss is still a loss. A big string of these tough losses still gets you till last place.
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I can't believe Augie forgot how to coach this quick ... must have done a terrible job of recruiting.

We're pathetic
 
Was out last night at a family event and didnt get to follow until I read the updates today. What can you say that hasnt already been said. This team has Omaha level pitching and little league level hitting. Just so frustrating!
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