OU vs. Texas Game 3

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Thornhill vs. an OU redshirt freshman.

Really need to take advantage and break out and score some and take this series.
 
Thornhill gives up a lead off single to left.

A sac bunt is popped to Thornhill for an out.

Next hitter singles to center.

Runners on first and second with one out.

Ground ball to short is a 6-4-3 double play to end the inning.

Texas coming to bat now with no score.
 
Johnson leads off with a four pitch walk.

OU one real weakness has been finding a Sunday starter. Hopefully this big left freshman isn't the answer.

Hall can't get the bunt down and K's swinging for out one.

Weis up now and Johnson with a good jump steals second as the big lefty is slow to the plate.

Weis and Payton now with a chance to take the early lead.

Weis K's swinging for his fourth consecutive K counting yesterday for the second out.

Payton K's swinging on a full count pitch to end the inning and leave Johnson stranded.

OU freshman K's the side after the leadoff walk.

No score after one inning.
 
A line drive to Hinojosa is missed for an error to put a runner at first.

The sac bunt is down and the runner moves to second with one away.

Ground ball to short is out two.

Runner moves to third.

A bunt that Thornhill field and throws low and Silver can't dig it out for another error this time on Thornhill scores the run.

OU leads on the unearned run 1-0.

A liner to short that Hinojosa catches this time ends the inning.

OU leads 1-0 to the bottom of the second without a hit in the inning.
 
Hinojosa leads off the second for Texas and the feed goes down.

Not sure how but Texas was retired in order.

OU leads 1-0 after two innings.
 
Thornhill in the third induces a ground ball to third and that is out one.

Another grounder to Weis is out two.

Another ground ball to Weis behind the bag at third and his long throw is wide and it's ruled an infield hit.

Runner at first with two down.

Thornhill ends the inning on a swinging K on a big change up.

To the bottom of three OU leads 1-0.
 
Felts lines a single to left in the gap, but it's cut off and that holds him at first.

Marlow gets the bunt down and the catcher tries to pick it up barehanded and missed it for an error.

Runners on first and second now with no outs.

Augie calls an offensive time out to talk to Johnson.

Johnson bunts it back to the mound and the pitchers forces Felts at third.

Runners still first and second with one away.

Hall K's swinging for the second time today for out two.

Weis up again with a runner in scoring position.

Weis gets a high fastball and lines it in the gap in left center and it rolls to the wall for a triple and scores both runs.

Texas takes the lead 2-1 on much needed clutch hit by one of our best hitters.

Both runs are unearned as are all runs in this game.

Payton walks and the big 6' 8" lefty freshman looks a bit rattled.

Hinojosa is HBP to load the bases.

Here comes the OU coach and a change is made.

Gottsacker grounds out to second to end the inning.

Texas now leads 2 unearned runs to one unearned run for OU. We give and they give back even more.

To the fourth now.
 
Thornhill back out after the long inning to start the fourth.

First pitch is a comebacker to Thornhill for out one.

A ground ball to short is out two.

Thornhill with a five pitch inning as another comebacker is snagged and the play made for out three.

To the bottom half of four with Texas leading 2-1.
 
Silver leads off the fourth against the much smaller lefty OU pitcher plunks him on the left knee to put a runner on.

Felts sac bunts him to second as the pitcher makes the play to first.

Marlow up and Augie calls another offensive TO.

Marlow despite the words of wisdom K's swinging for out two.

Johnson up and here comes the OU coach and we have another pitching change as a right hander is on to face Johnson.

Johnson lines out to center to end the inning.

After four now Texas leads 2-1.
 
Thornhill out for the fifth hits the batter on the first pitch to put a runner on.

The sac bunt is successful and the runner is moved to second with one away.

Another bunt down the third base line is fielded by Weis and he eats it as it's a hit to put runners on the corners with one out.

Skip out talk and now heads back to the dugout.

Next hitter also tries to bunt and can't get it down and then K's swinging for a big out two.

OU slugger White up now in a big situation and Thornhill gets him to keep Texas in the lead.

To the bottom of another fifth Frank and Texas still leads 2-1.
 
Hall leads off and grounds out short for out one.

Weis up again after his big his hit last at bat that gave the Horns the lead. I bet he is glad to face a right again finally.

He K's again though again swinging for out two.

Payton flies out to medium center on the first pitch to end the inning.

Texs leads 2-1 after five complete.
 
Thornhill who is now eligible for the win if we can hang on is out for the sixth and strikes out the lead off man swinging for one away.

Thornhill with another K swinging on his big change is out two.

And Thornhill retires the side in order on another K to keep the Horns in the lead 2-1 to the bottom of the sixth.
 
Hinojosa leads off with a K looking for out one.

Gottsacker walks to put a man on.

Silver ground one into the hole on the right side that the first baseman knocks down and throws to the pitcher covering for out two as Gottsacker moves to second.

Felts grounds out to third to end the inning.

Texas hanging on to a 2-1 lead to the seventh.
 
Thornhill out for the seventh and it's a big inning as if he can get through this inning you know Knebel can come in at any time then.

Thornhill K's the first hitter swinging for out one.

Another big change is a strike out swinging again for out two.

A full count comebacker ends the K streak at five but it ends the inning.

Texas leads still 2-1 to the stretch.
 
Marlow leads off the seventh with a single that is only the third hit of the day for Texas.

Johnson sac bunts him to second.

Hall grounds out on a comebacker and the runner holds at second with now two down.

Weis up and got believe a lefty is coming in to face him and here comes the OU coach to make the change.

Weis with yet another K swinging ends the inning and leaves a big insurance run stranded at second again.

Seven completed now and Texas leads still 2-1.
 
The first hitter lines a single to left.

The sac bunt is back Knebel and he drops it but recovers to get the runner at first. He could have easily gotten the out at second.

A wild pitch moves the runner to third.

A single to right ties the game at two.

The infield was in and the line drive might have been caught by Marlow at regular depth.

Thornhill's great effort is wasted now as far as getting a win.

The next hitter Oblesby who was leading the conference in everything is still 0 for Austin as he K's swinging.

The next hitter lines a single to left to put runners on first and second.

And now a liner to the gap in left goes to the wall and both runs score to make it OU leading now 4-2.
 
NBHorn7, is our failure to get runs driving you crazy?
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A pop up to Silver mercifully ends the inning.

To the bottom of the eighth OU leads 4-2.

I reached the crazy point about our lack of hitting last season.
 
Payton lines out to left for the first out.

Hinojosa doubles off the wall in left center and the OU center fielder hit the wall hard and is shook up.

He is up, but here comes the OU trainer.
 
He stays in the game.

Hinojosa moves up to third on a passed ball.

Gottsacker lines out to short for the second out.

Silver flies out to center as Texas strands yet another runner in scoring position with less than two outs.

To the ninth OU leads 4-2.
 
Knebel trying to keep the deficit to two runs K's the first hitter swinging.

Another K swinging is out two.

He strikes out the side swinging to end the inning.

Three outs left for Texas to prevent yet another can't hit frustrating loss and series loss.

OU leads 4-2 to the bottom of the ninth.
 
Felts leads off with yet another K this time looking for out one.

Carter pinch hits for Marlow and he K's swinging for out two.

We haven't even sniffed their closer in two days.

Johnson flies out to left and that's it .

OU wins 4-2 and wins the series.

We get two unearned runs and four hits off a pot luck Sunday freshman starter and staff.

OU wins a series from Texas for the first time in like 15 years.

You just can't leave runners in scoring position game after game after game and expect your pitching to always bail you out.

Anybody want to argue we can't hit whether it is good, mediocre, and even most of the time bad pitching I am waiting to hear your argument.

It speaks for itself and has for way too long now.
 
We switched hitting coaches this year and if there has been any improvement it is miniscule.
The pitchers cannot carry all of the load and this team is not improving -- at all. I was willing
to listen to Augie say otherwise, but apparently his prognostications were way off track.

Our three major sports are not exactly waving the Longhorn flag and no one fears Texas
at this point. Sad.
 
I don't know about that, but I know we're on the verge of matching the basketball team with a losing season.
 

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