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TCU 3 Texas 2
Posted by HenryJames on June 8th, 2009 under Baseball
Pitching, defense and the three runs off homers. That strategy worked perfectly for TCU yesterday, and they’ve now forced a winner take all game three tonight.
Whenever you make a mistake to one of TCU’s 2-3-4 hitters, they hit a home run. It’s really that simple. They’ve combined for 10 of TCU’s fourteen hits in the series, and they’ve hit all five of their home runs and driven in all seven of their runs. The rest of their lineup is 4-41 against Texas pitching. Quite remarkable actually.
Cole Green pitched well enough to win. He went 7 1/3 only giving up three runs. He had a fantastic breaking ball for most of the game, and the two hits he gave up in the fourth were on 1-2 pitches. Michael Torres ole’d a hard hit grounder to third that was ruled a hit, and that may have been the deciding run. One batter later TCU’s Matt Vern hit his second home run of the series.
TCU starter Paul Gerrish dominated Texas hitters by throwing strikes, getting ahead in the count and hitting his target. The guy had maybe two pitches, but Texas hitters couldn’t do anything against him. He was able to jam right handers with the movement on his fastball, and then he got them to chase a lot of balls off the outside corner with his slider. He threw that pitch a lot with two strikes.
Texas didn’t even have the opportunity to bunt until the sixth inning when they finally got their leadoff man aboard. But Torres popped hit bunt attempt up to the first baseman. They executed that same play seven times on Saturday. Went 0-1 yesterday.
So now it all comes down to one game. Texas will go with Taylor Jungmann, and he did not pitch well in his last outing. TCU will start Tyler Lockwood who is 4-1 on the year with a 4.41 ERA (3.86 in conference).
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Vasherized said:
June 8th, 2009 at 6:35 am
Here’s an idea to get some runners on the bases when the offense has gone cold.
Don’t take 37 first pitch strikes.
I’m not sure what the number was but it was fucking painful to watch us get buried 0-2 in every count then chase a slider for a weak chopper or strikeout.
Get your asses out to the Disch today and help this team get to Omaha.
fucking bunt said:
June 8th, 2009 at 7:23 am
hopefully i wont be heard from too often today. I’m worried they will come out tight and bunt themselves out of inning…augie style.
MIA said:
June 8th, 2009 at 8:22 am
Watching this team makes me think Augie is taking pucker lessons from GD.
PatronSaint said:
June 8th, 2009 at 8:32 am
The homer that the righty hit to opposite field was b.s. aluminum crap. That should have been a lazy fly out. He was totally stiff and giving a throw away swing at the pitch, and somehow sent it over the fence. That was infuriating.
Mysterious Package said:
June 8th, 2009 at 9:37 am
Maybe we should try to hit a cheap one out of the park then?
the Bobs said:
June 8th, 2009 at 11:06 am
hard to catch a cheap one just right when you’re squared around…
Sug Knight said:
June 8th, 2009 at 12:02 pm
fucking bunt – tell the hitters to hit extra base hits and then maybe we won’t need you.
Nordberg said:
June 8th, 2009 at 12:06 pm
I’m with Vasherized. Watching our guys take an 82 mph fastball down the middle to start off an AB, only to finish the AB by swinging at a pitch in the dirt or a foot off the plate… gets old.
intellectual type said:
June 8th, 2009 at 12:52 pm
There’s a difference between being aggressive and swinging at bad pitches. Some games they seem to do really well at being selective on what pitches they are swinging at and consequently forcing the other team’s pitcher to earn his outs. I agree, we need to be aggressive early during at-bats if they are in the strike zone and hittable.
Bob in Houston said:
June 8th, 2009 at 1:13 pm
The important thing about this team is that the bats aren’t good enough to carry it when they have to.
It’s no crime not to have great hitters when you have the pitching they have, but it doesn’t look like a national championship team to me, either, at least when compared with 2002 and 2005.
uthookem said:
June 8th, 2009 at 1:20 pm
I agree, Bob. 2002 had an offense that scared folks – Moss, Majewski, Ontiveros, Quintanilla, Reininger. 2005 also had it’s share of hitters – Johnston, Wheeless, Kainer, Stubbs, Teagarden, hell, even Peoples. Who scares teams in our current offense? Brandon Belt is about as close as we get, and he’s easy to walk when you know you’ll get a free out with a bunt to follow.
I’d like to win tonight. Getting to Omaha this year will be a huge boost.
Hook ‘em!
Vasherized said:
June 8th, 2009 at 1:36 pm
The pitcher TCU is starting today is a control guy that will want to keep his pitch count low -opposite from the power we saw yesterday from Gerrish who set everything up with the fastball then took us apart with the slider. The early fastballs were there for the taking all day but we stared at them like Deon Beasley in a full tackle drill.
90 minutes to first pitch. Welcome to the Petri Disch of melting concrete, searing field turf, loose women, fat old men in Jeff Ontiveros jerseys with 80’s-era headphones (HJ), belligerent hecklers with coozy-smuggled beers and warm flasks of bourbon, impatient Texas fans with Omaha itineraries in hand, and Texas Anti-Christians with identity complex issues praying for the righteous upset.
Get your in-game tweets here and here.
Michael said:
June 8th, 2009 at 2:08 pm
I’ve noticed some of the “Barkers’ are phasing themselves out of this blog altogether for whatever reason(s). I’ve been following this blog for quite sometime and I like it. Keep up the good work!
uthookem said:
June 8th, 2009 at 7:45 pm
Wait until football season, it will pick back up. In the meantime, anyone have a good kalua pork recipe? The interwebs tell me to get a pork butt, add some salt and liquid smoke, and stick it in the crockpot for about 18 hours. Anyone try anything like that? I’m having birthday week festivus in a few weeks, and I’d like to try it, along with numerous Mai Tais (real ones, with orgeat syrup – eat it, bitches). Let me know.
Hook ‘em!