***CWS Opener: Texas vs Arkansas***

[Jameson McCausland]

Bonfield- 5-3 groundout

Fletcher- Infield single. High chopper gets over Reynolds' head. Hamilton tries to make the throw from deep in the hole, but Fletcher beats it out. Runners at the corners with 2 away

Shaddy- Flyout to LF

1-0 Arkansas after 1

 

[Jameson McCausland]

Top 2

Zubia- Grounder up the middle for a base hit

Petrinsky- DEEP flyout to LF. Any other ballpark and that is gone. It looked gone off the bat.

McKenzie- Works a full count and grounds one down the third base line. Martin makes a heck of a play and completes the play with a strong throw to first.

Hibbeler- Strikeout swinging

Texas made some quality contact against Knight that inning, but has nothing to show for it

 

[Jameson McCausland]

Bottom 2

Gates- Infield single. Gates smashed one that took a hard hop and hit Kody Clemens in the shoulder.

Koch- (Gates to second on a balk) Flyout to CF. Gates moves up to third.

Biggers- Popout in foul territory to Hamilton. Gates forced to hold at third.

Cole- Strikeout swinging

Nice job by Kingham to work around the leadoff single and balk

 

[Jameson McCausland]

Top 3

Shaw- Triple to CF. He crushes that and Arkansas had the OF playing shallow

Reynolds- Groundout between the pitcher and first base. Shaw scores

1-1

 

[Jameson McCausland]

Hamilton- Works a full count and draws a walk.

Ellis- Ellis gets ahead 2-0 and Arkansas' pitching coach, Wes Johnson, makes his way to the mound.

 

[Jameson McCausland]

Ellis- Hamilton is moving on the 2-0 pitch and Ellis flies out to LF

Clemens- Flyout to CF. Good swing but right at Fletcher.

3 outs

 

[Jameson McCausland]

Bottom 3

Martin- Flyout to CF

Kjerstad- Double over McKenzie's head at first base and into RF

Bonfield- Strikeout looking

Fletcher- Popout to McKenzie at first base

1-1 after 3

 

[Jameson McCausland]

Good job by Kingham so far on attacking hitters and keeping his pitch count reasonable.

 

[Jameson McCausland]

Top 4

Zubia- Deep flyout to RF. Zubia got a hold of one, but Cole hauls it in on the warning track

Petrinsky- 4-3 groundout

McKenzie- Strikeout swinging

 

[texbound]

man, that is a low strike zone.  Thought both of those pitches at 3-0 were balls down low.

 

[Jameson McCausland]

Bottom 4

Shaddy- 5-3

Gates- Opposite field single down the LF line. Nice job by Hibbeler to cut it off and get it back into the infield to hold Gates to a single.

Koch- Flyout to CF

Biggers- Strikeout looking

1-1 after 4

 

[joeywa]

The strike zone is low and wide on both sides.

 

[Jameson McCausland]

This is the good Nolan Kingham. Attacking with his sinker and setting up his secondary pitchers well.

 

[Jameson McCausland]

Top 5

Hibbeler- Hard single to the SS. Briggers gets a piece of it, but can't knock it down.

Shaw- Bunt single. Great placement by Shaw.

Two on with nobody out for Reynolds

 

[Jameson McCausland]

Reynolds- Sac bunt. With a 1-2 count, Reynolds puts down a good bunt to advance both runners into scoring position.

 

[Jameson McCausland]

Hamilton- Sacrifice fly to CF. Hibbeler scores and Shaw advances to 3rd.

2-1 Texas

 

[Jameson McCausland]

Ellis- Strikeout looking

3 outs

 

[Jameson McCausland]

Parker Joe Robinson, Chase Shugart and Josh Sawyer run down to the bullpen as the bottom of the 5th begins.

 

[Jameson McCausland]

Bottom 5

Cole- Flyout to LF

Martin- 4-pitch walk

Kjerstad- 3-6 fielder's choice. McKenzie handles the hard smash and gets the out at second. The return throw to first base is wild, but Kjerstad looked like he turned into fair territory. Arkansas may have caught a break there.

Bonfield- 2-run home run to LF

3-2 Arkansas

 

[java]

Kjerstdt or whoever is a little asshole.