Texas vs. Manhattan weekend baseball series

[david ficken]

Games will be on LHN, but the softball team is on right now.

Gordon pitched the top of the 1st other than a 5 pitch walk was able to get out of the inning quickly.

[david ficken]

Texas got a run in the bottom of the 1st. Leads 1-0 after 1.

[Dillohorn1]

Not a fan of softball being shown instead of men's baseball. I don't have espn+.

[david ficken]

Thru 3 complete. 1-0 Texas.  We have put  some on base, but haven't gotten the hits to break the game open yet.

It's now on LHN.

[david ficken]

Thru 5 complete it's now 3-0 Texas. 

[david ficken]

Gordon has gone 6 innings- 94 pitches, no runs, no hits, 9 strikeouts, and 4 walks.

[Eastexhorn]

Horns softball ismuch better on the eyes than baseball.

[david ficken]

We are thru 8 complete and Texas finally broke it open in the bottom of the 8th with a 4 spot. It's now 8-0. 

Actually Gordon had only 3 walks. Manhattan has only 1 hit in the game.

[david ficken]

Texas wins 8-1, but gave up a homerun in the 9th.

[BWilk55]

34 minutes ago, david ficken said:

We are thru 8 complete and Texas finally broke it open in the bottom of the 8th with a 4 spot. It's now 8-0. 

Actually Gordon had only 3 walks. Manhattan has only 1 hit in the game.

Strong performance by Gordon. Competition level was not great but thats a good starting line regardless.

Offense still lacking overall. Some unearned runs sprinkled in helped us out. I think LOB will be a key stat this season, it was 13 today.

[david ficken]

Texas gives up 1 run on 2 hits after the 1st out in the top of the 1st.

1-0. 

[david ficken]

Bottom of the 1st for Texas.  3 runs, 7 free passes ( 1 hit batter and 6 walks) no hits.

Bottom of the 2nd: 2 more runs on 3 hits. 

It's 5-1.  @Joeywa do you agree with the hitter interference on the double steal in the bottom of the 2nd? Keith and Greg didn't and thought that maybe the home plate ump had called a time delayed strike.

[david ficken]

Thru 5 complete it's 6-2 Texas.  Zane Morehouse went 4 innings- 5 strikeouts 2 runs with 4 or 5 hits.

[david ficken]

After the top of the 7th inning it's  now 8-4.

Now if watching on LHN, the softball games will follow the baseball game.

Softball has a double header tonight. 

[david ficken]

Texas wins 10-4.

Texas was out hit in the game, but Texas got 15 free passes scoring 5 or 6 of the free passes.

Going for the sweep on Sunday.  

Texas pitching I believe has 25+ strikeouts so far in the series.

Game is at noon. So, really a 11:00am start before the moving the clock ahead 1 hour.

[Baron]

Thanks David. Hook'em

[david ficken]

So, the game has started, but for some reason LHN is still showimg the Wisconsin v. Bama softball game.  Maybe ESPN is hoping people will buy the ESPN+. I have the radio free streaming on or you can follow @Joeywa on Twitter. 

Anyway, Texas had a 1-2-3 top of the 1st. Texas is hitting in the bottom of the 1st. 1st 2 are on for Texas.

[david ficken]

Texas gets a big 1st inning. 6 runs on 5 hits with 2 errors on Manhattan.

[david ficken]

It looks like the softball is over and now the game is on LHN.

[david ficken]

Thru 3 complete innings. Texas 8-0. Texas has scored in all 3 innings. Got a homerun in the bottom of the 2nd and a RBI double in the bottom of the 3rd.

Just for comparison Sthele has thrown 30 pitches thru 3 innings and the starter for Manhattan has thrown 78 pitches.

[david ficken]

Thru 6 complete it's  14-6 Texas. Texas gave up 2 in the top of the 5th and 4 in the 6th, but got 4 in the bottom of the 6th.

Off to the fimal 3 innings.

[david ficken]

Texas wins 16-6. Texas scored at 1 run in every inning of the game that they came to the plate.  Texas gets the sweep.

Texas so far in the 14 game at home is 5-0. They have scored at 7 runs in the 1st 5 games.

Texas has 5 games in the upcoming week with 2 mid week games with N. Dakota State and 3 games next weekend with New Orleans.

[TB14]

Good job building some confidence after the rough start. Need to keep it going for the real tests start up again in two weeks.