Texas Baseball: Team of the Decade
Baseball America chose their ‘All-2000s team’ and sent voting ballots to every Division 1 baseball coach (150 of which responded). Augie Garrido sent his votes on a cocktail napkin.
Texas was the team of the decade with 32.6% of the vote. Two national championships and two runners up in the decade. Not too shabby.
Garrido was runner up for coach of the decade to
The final game of the best 2-of-3 series for the College World Series Championship may not have been close, but the buildup was good enough to give ESPN
three of the four highest-rated CWS games ever.
The three-game series for the National Championship grew in numbers with each game, until it averaged just under 2.8 million viewers. That was
26% more viewers than last year's Georgia-Fresno State series.
Texas’ two biggest strengths coming into the College World Series were pitching and defense. They had carried a rather anemic offense throughout the year. If you had told me before the series started that Texas would hit fourteen homeruns, I would have told you that we would win it. I never would have guessed that our pitching and defense would let us down.
Texas had confidence in six pitchers going into the CWS. That’s usually
Huck is going to be late. HenryJames may add some commentary. Please feel free to comment below. - S.R.
I get home form work, cut the tv on and the very first thing I see is a three home run by LSU. Damn.
Green got the first two guys before hitting the 3rd batter and then allowing a single.
Ranaudo is struggling to find the strike zone. He only has his fastball, and it's either too
With only Game Three of the championship series left to play, all games pitting an Eastern team versus a Western team have been decided.
A review of the results from this season:
In the tournament, Green was 27-14 against Red for a .659 winning percentage.
The last four teams standing are all from the green.
Three super regionals matched Green against Red. Green swept all three (Arizona St. over Clemson, Cal St.-Fullerton over Louisville, Arkansas over Florida
Before pitching the deciding game against TCU in the super regional, Taylor Jungmann was asked about his nerves.
“Nerves? I don't get nervous, man,” he said. Apparently not.
He’s been fantastic the whole series (6 pitches last night excluded), and he was brilliant last night. He stayed down and away against LSU’s lefthanders with his two seam fastball. The Tigers are not a team that’s going to walk their way to a win, and Jungmann frustrated
It's raining.
First pitch scheduled for around 7:43 Central as of now.
Ms. Andrews is sporting a more colorful ensemble this evening and the game is still scheduled to go off in around 5 minutes.
As reported, Austin Ross will start for the Tigers. He has nice peripherals but a bad ERA and batting average against. Numbers make it seem like he gets hit hard when he's in the zone. Torres leads off for Texas.
I am now home and will catch up quickly on DVR. Ms. Andrews reports that LSU fans outnumber Texas fans. We are officially doomed.
My kingdom for a left-handed starter, by the way. LSU is a left-handed hitting team and has struggled, relatively speaking, against lefties this year. I guess we'll have to make to with what we've got but there will probably be an occasion in this series for Keith Shinaberry
After over 8,000 games this season we have now reached the Championship Series of college baseball. Unlike last year's final, this year features two consensus Top 5 teams. And while this matchup of the 2009 versions of Texas and LSU baseball may seem at first glance to be exactly what you'd expect with Texas fielding defense and pitching and LSU mashing their way to wins, the differences aren't as pronounced as you may