Texas Southern vs. Texas DH Game 1

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A double header with the first game being seven innings.
Weis is also suspended from this game after being tossed last Sunday against KSU.

The usual DH against a team like this during finals week.
Two games that don't mean much other than to get some reps before the last series against TCU.

 

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French gets the start, but multiple pitchers will be used today.

French K's swinging the lead off man for TSU for out one.

A ground ball to short is out two.

A fly ball to right retires the side.

No score as Texas comes to bat.

 

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A righty named Pearson gets the start for TSU.

B. Marlow leads off and grounds out to second for out one.

Stell grounds out to third for two away.

Payton lines a drive over the left fielder's head to the wall for a triple.

Hinojosa grounds to second to retire the side and strand Payton at third.

No score after one inning of play.

 

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French out for the second and a ground ball to third is not handled by Carter for an error.

A little tapper in front of the plate is fielded by French and he has to go to first for the out as the runner moves to second.

A fly ball to right it out two as the runner holds.

A K swinging ends the inning.

No score to the bottom of two.

 

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Felts leads off the second and is hit by a pitch in the arm for the first Texas base runner.

Montalbano at DH today singles to right on a hit and run and Felts goes around to third to put runners on the corners with no outs.

Shaw grounds to first and no one is covering the bag and they rule it a single to load the bases.

Ty Marlow singles to center to score Felts and keep the bases loaded. Texas leads 1-0.

Carter grounds to third and the third baseman comes home and the relay to first is a 5-2-3 double play.

Runners at second and third with two away.

B. Marlow grounds to deep short and the throw is late and a infield single scores Montalbano to make it 2-0.

Stell grounds out to second to retire the side.

Texas leads 2-0 after two complete.

 

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French out for the third as Ty Marlow moves over to play third and Silver enters the game to play first as Carter exits.

A fly ball to center is out one.

A ground ball to second is out two.

A bloop to Hinojosa at short retires the side.

To the bottom of the third as Texas leads 2-0.

 

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Payton leads off the third with a single to right off the second baseman's glove.

Hinojosa up as Payton is gunned down attempting to steal second for the first out and clear the bases.

Hinojosa grounds one up the middle that is knocked down by the second baseman, but there is no play and it's another infield hit.

Felts grounds one back to the mound that is a 1-6-3 double play to end the inning.

Texas leads 2-0 as we go to the fourth.

 

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Duke comes out to pitch in the fourth and a bunt that is too hard back to Duke is an easy out one.

A ground ball to short and Hinojosa throws wide, but Silver gets the tag for out two.

A ground ball to third is out three to retire the side.

Texas leads halfway through the seven inning game 2-0.

 

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Montalbano leads off the fourth with a comebacker that is out one.

Shaw lines one to the gap in right center and it rolls to the wall for a triple.

Ty Marlow flies one ot right that serves as a SF that scores Shaw and makes it 3-0.

Silver grounds out to third to retire the side.

Texas leads now 3-0 after four.

 

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Duke back to the hill for the fifth and gets the lead off man swinging for the first out.

A fly ball to right is out two.

Another fly ball to right retires the side.

Bottom five coming with Texas in the lead 3-0.

 

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A new pitcher for TSU in the fifth is a lefty Gomez.

B. Marlow leads off against him and grounds out to second for one away.

Stell bloops a fisted ball to left for a single that gets just over the the shortstop's head.

Payton with one aboard at first and one away takes ball one as Stell steals second.

Payton lines out to center and Stell for some reason just took off and kept going is doubled off 8-6 to end the inning.

Texas leads 3-0 after five innings.

 

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Knebel in to pitch the sixth now and K's his first batter faced swinging for one away.

Knebel gives up the first walk of the game for Texas on a full count pitch to put only the second runner of the game on for TSU.

A fly ball to right is out two.

The runner at first steals second and becomes the first TSU runner to reach second.

A K swinging ends the inning.

Going to the bottom of six with Texas leading 3-0.

 

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Hinojosa leads off the sixth and drives one off the wall in left for yet another triple, the third of the game for Texas.

Felts K's looking for out one.

Montalbano singles through the hole on the left side to score Hinojosa and make it 4-0.

Shaw K's looking for two away.

Ty Marlow grounds out to third to end the inning.

Texas leads now 4-0 as we go to the seventh of the seven inning game.

 

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Knebel out for the seventh gets the lead off man swinging for the first out.

Another K swinging is out two.

A liner to Payton in right ends the game.

Texas wins 4-0 and it's a combined no hitter for French, Duke, and Knebel. The only base runners were on an error by Carter and a walk by Knebel.

This makes me think of the time Greg Swindell threw a no hitter in a seven inning game. I went over after the game to talk to him as usual and said "good game Zeke, but there is one thing."

Now Zeke was and still is one with a big time sense of humor and he knew I was kind of known to have one too.
He kind of gave me that sideways look and said what did I mean.

I looked at him and calmly said "you still owe us two innings." He laughed and told me to remind him next game so he could get those two innings for me.

I did and he got those two more hitless innings for me and I said ok and we took care of him out in the parking lot later with some tailgate offerings.

Anyway the next game starts in about 20-30 minutes with the nine inning game with Thornhill starting I believe.