Texas vs. KSU Game 3

Seriously, this team cannot stand even the tiniest bit of prosperity, today is just so freaking frustrating and I dont know why, we all know what this team is but they show little signs to give us hope and then they just crush that feeling.:brickwall:
 
Benenati will pitch the ninth for KSU.

Kacy Clemens bats lefty, leading off, for Texas.
He K's swinging on a high fast ball, one away.

Gurwitz bats righty, with an out.
A high fly ball to right and the wind has it and it's gone, for a homer.

KSU leads 3-2.

Mathis bats lefty, with one away.
He is now the tying run.
A pop to shallow left and the shortstop backs and has it, two gone.

Boswell bats lefty, trying to keep the game going, with two away.
The count runs full and a ground ball to second and the 4-3 will end the game.

KSU wins 3-2, to salvage a game in the series and get their first win in conference play, after eight straight defeats, a big loss for the Horns, trying to create some momentum.

Back in a bit.
 
Denny says hi from the bench. He was only batting .267 to Boswell's .204 and .250 to .071 in conference play.

Can't believe if we'd have just made the tag at 2nd the game would've been tied after Gurwitz went deep. Sickening.
 
Texas scores one run in the first and one in the ninth, but nothing in between. Johnston gave you six scoreless innings.

Just couldn't hold on, the winning run scores on a botched run down. You hoped to score more runs today against the Sunday starter for KSU, but didn't.

Now Texas has to go on the road and face a good Houston team, in the midweek game.

It's a frustrating season so far, you just have to keep trying and see what happens.

Right now I am going to hopefully watch Jordan Spieth make more history, by winning a second consecutive Masters. :hookem:
 
FWHORN said:
Seriously, this team cannot stand even the tiniest bit of prosperity, today is just so freaking frustrating and I dont know why, we all know what this team is but they show little signs to give us hope and then they just crush that feeling.:brickwall:
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Was hoping, after seeing yesterday's lineup, that we'd gone back to our initial lineup earlier in the year. It cost us in a major way today. Tres just hasn't played enough at 3rd base to have that mindset. Such a costly error, given that Gurwitz hit the home run in the 9th.
Yes, it's very frustrating to watch the game slip away like that.
And when our bullpen is called upon to come in and get 1 batter out, they just can't seem to do it with any consistency....no matter what the overall stats might suggest. Oh well. KState gets their very first win in the conference....a give-away win, at that.
UGGH!!!
 
NBHorn7 said:
Texas scores one run in the first and one in the ninth, but nothing in between. Johnston gave you six scoreless innings.

Just couldn't hold on, the winning run scores on a botched run down. You hoped to score more runs today against the Sunday starter for KSU, but didn't.

Now Texas has to go on the road and face a good Houston team, in the midweek game.

It's a frustrating season so far, you just have to keep trying and see what happens.

Right now I am going to hopefully watch Jordan Spieth make more history, by winning a second consecutive Masters. :hookem:
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Go Jordan!
And pray that this Longhorn baseball team can figure it out. Time is slipping away for this team and this season.
 
black & gold,

Watching online while watching The Masters, it appeared the only way we would not tag the guy out first was if he dropped the ball. Even if he fell down, he was so close he would have hit the runner on his was to the ground.
 
These late inning failures by the closer of the moment are SO painful for the team and the fans. Skip has looked to Chase Shugart to close games and that didn't go too well. Then he tried Connor Mayes with a similar result. Shugart seemed to be improving, so he tried him again and that failed again.

Our patched together infield hasn't helped the situation any. They often fail to turn a double play to get us out of an inning and rarely make an exceptional play.

Its hard to see how any of this is going to improve soon, but the bats seem to be improving some.
 
sbmcruise said:
These late inning failures by the closer of the moment are SO painful for the team and the fans. Skip has looked to Chase Shugart to close games and that didn't go too well. Then he tried Connor Mayes with a similar result. Shugart seemed to be improving, so he tried him again and that failed again.

Our patched together infield hasn't helped the situation any. They often fail to turn a double play to get us out of an inning and rarely make an exceptional play.

Its hard to see how any of this is going to improve soon, but the bats seem to be improving some.
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Yeppers.....when Skip is constantly bringing in and taking out pitchers....only playing the percentages.....and not knowing 1.) what he's gonna get from the pitcher "of the moment" and 2.) not having closers who get that 1 batter out has cost us so many games this year....I've counted 11 games thus far....there may have been more.....our starting pitchers are doing so well. But our relief pitching is the constant issue.
Of course, if we could score 8-10 runs a game it wouldn't matter...but that's unrealistic for any team.
I wish we'd go back to the initial lineup we used at the beginning of the season. But Big "G" is playing so well at 2nd, it'd be scary for Auggie to make that change. On the other hand, he's sorely missed at center field. As for the other infielders (3rd and ss, I'd go back to the guys who started at those positions.)

Bottom line: the youth and learning curve has really cost us, the relief pitching has been a serious issue, and the bats are just now starting to come alive....sort-of. At this point in the season, I just don't see things changing much. If it's not freshmen mistakes, it's upper classmen----if it's not middle relief, it's the closers.....just not a good solution for all of those issues. And, obviously, the inconsistency at the plate has been an issue for the entire season.
 
While Cantu finally had a good hitting day yesterday, it's self-sabotaging trotting out an order that includes both sub .200 hitters Boswell and Cantu.

Boswell - .198 season, .059 conference
Cantu - .186 season, .154 conference

They have plenty of AB's (106 and 86), the light never turned on behind the plate. Augie needs to accept that after 32 games and keep them out of the same lineup.

There are more productive DH options like Denny and Harlan when Cantu catches. When Barrera catches and Boswell plays infield, Cantu needs to sit like he did Saturday.

We split them up on Friday and Saturday in those different ways, it's no coincidence we were far better behind the plate.

This is all immaterial, enough poor decisions have already been made to bury us anyway. The HC replacement search should've already started. This isn't Texas baseball.
 
Bad base running and being one of the worst fielding Texas teams in memory, also contribute to the cause in big negative way.

Sawyer's tender arm continues to really hurt also. He's pitched a total of 5.1 innings this season. He had games he pitched more than that last season. He just can't go very long.

TCU is averaging 8.1 runs a game to present.

TCU has scored 258 runs to 154 for Texas, in one less game, than Texas. Texas has twenty games left to play in the regular season. This means if TCU didn't score another run, for the rest of their regular season and Texas maintains their current run scoring average, the rest of their regular season. Texas would still score less runs than TCU.
 
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