Texas mid week games against North Dakota State both Tuesday and Wednesday

[david ficken]

It's the 2nd week of having 2 midweek games. This week is North Dakota State botn days.

Most likely LBJ is the Tuesday starter, but not certain of the Wednesday starter.

Hopefully we keep getting the runs scored like we did last week.

[david ficken]

Games will be on LHN and if you have twitter then you can follow Joeywa on there.

[david ficken]

Not a great start for LBJ. Hit the 1st batter that comes around to score in the top of the 1st. 3 wild pitches in the 1st 2 innings. 

[Dillohorn1]

I have not been impressed with this UT pitcher so far this season.

[david ficken]

After  innings it's 2-1 NDSU.  Texas could have had a big 2nd inning, but Kennedy pop ups for the final out of the inning.

[david ficken]

After 5 complete innings it's now 6-2 Texas. Texas has had 8 walks so far this game.  Hurley took over for LBJ after getting in the foot by the ball. 

I believe that Hurley now has worked 3 1/3 innings of work.

[david ficken]

Thru 6 complete still 6-2 Texas.

[david ficken]

Hurley goes 1-2-3 in the top of the 7th with a runner thrown out at 2nd. Hurley has thrown 40+ pitches thru 4 1/3 innings if not mistaken.

BTW, the top team in the Big12 is TCU at #11. They lost tonight to Texas State 8-4. 

This Okie Lite the #12 team goes to tech to open each team's big 12 play.

[david ficken]

Thru 8 complete it's 7-2 Texas. Texas adds a run in the bottom of the 8th.

Interesting note the SEC has 6 of the top 7 teams in the top 25 in baseball.

Hurley went 5 1/3 innings giving up only 2 or 3 hits with 5 strikeouts throwing 70 pitches.

[david ficken]

Texas wins 7-2.  Scoring 7 or more runs in the 1st 6 games of the 14 game home stand.

[Eastexhorn]

Looks Hurley is the best reliever.

[BWilk55]

12 hours ago, Eastexhorn said:

Looks Hurley is the best reliever.

He might be one of the better starters even

[david ficken]

It's the 2nd game with North Dakota State. Ace Whitehead is starting the game.  The wind is blowing out, so might see some homers.  Also, it's been 5 years today since Augie passed away and LHN has playing showing different stuff on him and will probably be getting some mentions throughout the game tonight.

[david ficken]

Top of the 1st: NDSU gets 1 run.  Leads 1-0 heading to the bottom of the 1st.

[david ficken]

After 2 complete. It's  2-1 NDSU.

[david ficken]

After 5 complete it's tied at 4 each. Texas does have a homerun from Kennedy and a 2 run homerun from Cambell. 

[david ficken]

In the Texas  7th- Kennedy hits his 2nd homerun of the night to finally give Texas a 5-4 lead.

[david ficken]

Texas adds 2 in the bottom of the 8th. Texas wins 7-4. Texas has scored 7 or more in all 7 games so far in the 14 home games.

[joeywa]

Horns played from behind most of the night but finally broke it open and held off the Bisons. Morehouse with his first career save. EK, (as mentioned,) with 2 HRs on a 3/5 night. DC added a solo shot of his own and went 2/4 on the night. 
New Orleans comes to town on Friday for a weekend series. Texas could use a sweep of that series as well. After UIW on Tuesday of next week, Texas Tech comes to the Disch for the opening series of conference play. So far, the Horns have made the most of this home stand, going 7-0 since returning from Fullerton. 11-0 headed into conference play would be a huge confidence builder for this team. 

[david ficken]

Thanks Joey for giving a lot better recap than i would've done.

Hoping to be on a 11 game winning streak going into the tech series will be huge. I did see where New Orleans did/has been scoring plenty of runs, but haven't seen that the competition has been that good. Thoughts for the weekend?  With Morehouse pitching does that limit him on Saturday? As far as innings/pitches? 

Thoughts  on the team? I think the best way to describe them is scrappy. They will be better at the end of the season than where they are now. Hoping to see several of these guys (Cambell, Daly, and the freshmen) getting the batting average up to go with Powell, Kennedy, the catcher from USC, and Brown.

The pitching has had it's ups and downs, but feel it is better than this time last year? Am i mistaken on this?

Defensively, at least I know that Daly maybe is a shortstop, but he isn't Trey or David H. But if they put in the work it should improve.