Texas Falls to Rice AGAIN

[300zx]

This team is good, but not outstanding. Good effort by the Horns but it wasn't enough. Frustrating for sure because they can't seem to shake these damn Owls.

 

[Lancehorn]

It is a little frustrating, but we've seen this play out before. If we see them in Omaha with our top starters vs. theirs...I think we take them.

We've owned them for 2-3 years before too.

 

[Touchdown_Texas]

once upon a time, we owned a 10-game winning streak against the owls.

 

[Endust]

over the past decade, we swept Rice every year we've done anything in omaha (ie. finals) - 2002, 2004, 2005.

 

[davert]

While I would like to beat Rice I don't get concerned about mid-week games where we pitch by committee. The weekend series are the ones that matter and I like the way Augie and staff get ready for them in the mid week games.

 

[Orangeblood]

As posted elsewhere:

Actually, that was exactly what I expected to see last night and just about what we needed.

After this weekend, we were destined to come out flat. The only thing that I expected and did not see was Preston get some fire into the guys late in the game. I do expect that this game will get them going enough to sweep again this weekend.

Yep, they hit Green in the second. Of course, he pitched 3 on Saturday evening and they didn't really "force" him out since he was not going to be pitching in the 3rd even if he had a no hitter going. And yes, the bulk of the Texas pitching that Rice faced last night was comprised of Carillo, McKirahan, and Thomas. Even though we're almost 40 games into the season, all 3 of them had (and still have) less than 10 innings of work this year (and still do). The Texas pitcher that Rice saw the most of was Carillo. Granted, the bulk of Rice's pitchers only had innings in the teens and low 20's, but that in itself is a big difference.

Overall, I thought both teams were sloppy in some areas and adequate at best in others.

All that said, I think that both of these teams stand a good chance of getting a top 8 seed. Ultimately, that is what we strive for to finish the season so that we don't have to travel to make it to Omaha.

 

[Valmy77]

Pity.

Oh well if they are going to lose I guess a non-conference regular season game is the place to do it. Hopefully this will be a wake-up call that will keep the team focusses during these last weeks of the regular season.

 

[jayakris]

Seeing that we had 12 walks and 5 hits, it looks like we chose not to be aggressive at all yesterday. Though I like small-ball, sometimes it does not work, and yesterday was a classic case.

12 walks plus 5 hits made 4 runs ..
13 hits, no walks and 4 HBP made 7 runs. They won.

I think we should have swung the bats a bit more than we did yesterday.

R.J.

 

[Bevo's Buddy]

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[jayakris]

That's true. That seriusly deflated some early momentum, right there. But it is part of baseball. DPs are going to happen.

By the way, in addition to 12 walks and 5 hits, their pitching gave us 4 wild pitches too that moved runners. Pretty poor pitching from them, actually. That we still could not plate enough people across shows that it was just a bad day for our batting. One or two more timely hits would have give us a win yesterday.

R.J.

 

[Bevo's Buddy]

Agree with DPs being part of the game. I guess I didn't do a good enough job typing out my complete thought. In listening to the game on the radio, it sounded like a sign was missed during the first inning. The announcers seemed to think Belt missed a bunt sign. When he hit a fly ball, the runners were already gone and Tucker got doubled-off at second. So, rather than sac bunting the runners over to 2nd and 3rd, we ended up with 2 outs.

 

[cloydtex]

It was their night; they had several balls fair, we had two or three go barely foul that would have changed the game. Their center fielder makes a great catch; the ball pops out of our center fielder's glove. Sometimes it isn't your night. I do wonder where Graham finds these freshmen who hit .370 with 12 cranks. We don't have many of those.

 

[Murphy'sBoy]

We played a sloppy game. Many runners, no key hits. errors, both credited and not credited, a silly attempt to steal third with 2 outs. The better team won last night.