texas baseball ***Texas Baseball vs Oklahoma State Weekend Game Thread***

[joeywa]

Happy Friday Seamheads.

First things first, if you haven't had a chance to read it yet, HornSports has a new beat writer for baseball.  Welcome @Cameron Cormier

He's in the press box doing game recaps.  Hoping to have him pop into a game thread every so often and give some insight and opinions.  He has written several game recaps for the last couple of series.

 

As for tonight, we get to watch how Texas comes out after a thorough destruction of Baylor last weekend.  At this point, every win counts for the Horns.  Ok State will prove to be a more worthy opponent than Baylor.  They are currently ranked 8th by D1 Baseball.  The Pokes are struggling of late, having gone 2-3 in their last 5, including dropping two to TCU and one midweek to Oral Roberts.   That said, they still hold a 1-game lead over the Horns in the Big12 standings.

 

 

 

[joeywa]

 

 

[joeywa]

Looks to be another breezy night at The Disch.  Wind blowing out to LF.

[joeywa]

T1

Hansen on the bump.

Pete works around a 1-out single for no damage

Scoreless headed B1

[joeywa]

B1

Horns get a 2-out single from Melendez, but that's all.

Scoreless thru 1 complete

[joeywa]

T2

Hansen makes a mistake with a FB leaving it up, and Ok St sends it over LF wall.  Pete retires the next three in order.

Ok St up 1-0 headed B2

[joeywa]

B2

Horns retired in order

Trail 0-1 thru 2 complete

[joeywa]

T3

Hansen allows a 2-out single, and an E4 to put two on, but he ends it with a K, no damage

Horns trail 0-1 headed B3

[joeywa]

B3

Horns retired in order again

Trail 0-1 thru 3 complete

[joeywa]

T4

Hansen works a 9-pitch, 1-2-3 frame

Horns trail 0-1 headed B4

Meat of the lineup due up

[joeywa]

B4

Horns tie it up at 1 after a Melendez solo HR over LCF wall

 

Thru 4 complete, 1-1

[joeywa]

T5

Hansen gives up 3 including a leadoff double, RBI single and a 2-run HR

Ok St up 4-1 headed B5

[david ficken]

Bad top of the 5 inning, but the bats look to be warming up in the bottom of the 5th.  

[joeywa]

B5

Not to worry.

Messinger solo HR

Campbell Double

Sac Fly moves Campbell to 3B, Faltine ground out RBI

Horns trail 3-4

Hodo double with 2 outs

Todd RBI single, game tied at 4

Melendez 2-out single

Stehly 2-out IF single on check swing, bases loaded

Ardoin strikes out swining, but the game is tied at 4 thru 5 complete

[joeywa]

T6

And just like that, Ok State gets B2B HRs to start the 6th, and takes a 6-4 lead to B6

[Sirhornsalot]

We need another 5th inning batting performance.

Is our pitching off or is OSU just that good at the plate?

[joeywa]

B6

Pokes go to the pen to begin the 6th

Horns get a 2-out single, but that's it

Thru 6, Horns trail 4-6

[joeywa]

5 minutes ago, Sirhornsalot said:

We need another 5th inning batting performance.

Is our pitching off or is OSU just that good at the plate?

It's windy, Ok St ain't Baylor, and Hansen has left some pitches up and down the pipe. 

[joeywa]

T7

Hansen comes back out for the frame

Nothing doing for Ok St.  Leads 6-4  headed B7

[joeywa]

B7

Horns get one back on a 1-out RBI single from Stehly, but a 4-3 DP ends the frame

Horns trail 5-6, thru 7 complete

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T8

Nixon comes in from the pen

He works a 1-2-3 frame.  Spectacular play for the first out; hard hit rocket to Messinger at 3B; ricochets off him and Faltine leaps, grabs and throws to 1B for the out. 

Horns trail 5-6 headed B8

[david ficken]

We are tied at 6. In the bottom of the 8th. This homerun ties the school record. 81 team homeruns.

[joeywa]

B8

Pokes call in their closer in the 8th

Messinger takes the first pitch over LF to tie it at 6

That's all Texas can muster in the 8th

6-6 headed to the 9th

[joeywa]

T9

Nixon back out to pitch.

He hits the first batter, gives up a weak bloop single into short RF along the line; runners on 1&2

FC 1-5 gets the lead runner on a bunt; 1 out

F7 for out #2

Nixon floats a FB on a 1-0 count, 2-RBI double.  Ok St takes the 8-6 lead

That's all for Nixon

On comes Lebarron Johnson

 

[joeywa]

T9 cont;

Runner on 2B, 2 outs

Johnson throws a WP moves the runner to 3B

Gives up a walk, runners on the corners

F8 ends it

 

Horns trail 6-8, headed B9