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Horns Lose, Get Closer To Conference Crown

[Update:] The bats weren't working again but solid enough pitching and a number of Texas A&M mistakes gave the Horns enough scoring to take a 5-4 victory. We think that should just about seal a top eight national seed, and one more OU loss -- losing 5-1 in the 7th -- (either today to OSU or next week to Texas A&M) would seal the conference title for Texas. Regardless, the Horns have come a long way from last season and are now 17-4-1 in the last 22 games.

Aggy starter Ross Hales was absolutely brilliant in a 3-0 victory in Austin. That pretty much sums up the game. Cole Green was alright and Brandon Workman was nearly perfect in long relief, but Texas' offense just couldn't get anything going. There are days like that in baseball, time to move on.

There is good news, though. Texas still holds a 1 game lead over Texas A&M and a victory today would eliminate them from the conference crown. In addition, KSU lost again at home to Tech, so a Texas victory today would nearly seal the deal, pending one Oklahoma loss (OSU today, Aggy next week). This time it's Texas' turn to have a freshman phenom on the mound in Taylor Jungmann. Austin Wood and Dicharry should be available to pitch in the later innings. It's a 2 o'clock start since there are no flights to catch this time and it'll be broadcast by a Fox College Sports, whatever that is.

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Here's how Texas wins the conference:

Win today: 1 OU loss in the next 4
Lose today: KSU lose 1 of the next 4, A&M lose 2 of 3 to OU, OU loses to OSU then wins 2 of 3 against Aggy

We’re ready for the game here. Right now Fox is showing Mizzou beating the Gooners in the B12 Softball Championship.

link

anyone got a web video feed? it’s not on channelsurfing.net

Not sure if it's online

Though Keith Moreland apparently has a mancrush on Taylor Jungmann

no video is a disaster
Groundout to Torres

And we’re under way

Bunt single
Hit and run prevents DP on a groundout

Colligan up, he’s been a beast

Anyone know what it is on directv?

The channel that says it will be showing it (615) is blacked out.

Fox College Sports isn't showing anything either.
time warner

says it’s on fox sports SOUTHWEST and NOT college sports

I have the astros on fssw :(
yeah me too

try fox sports central if you get it

That Fox channel in Houston is

Comcast 121. I don’t have that package.

gametracker says no shepherd in lf

bout time

Haven't seen the lineup

Maitland makes the catch though to end the inning

Online Radio

all I can find. No streaming video found by anyone I know of yet:

Aggy Online Radio – College Station

Great AB by Colligan

Ends in a walk…I have comcast and it’s on here

wow

comcast does something right?

Give it time

They’ll screw it up

Torres leading off

Flies out to left

One out double for Tucker
And Belt walks
Has anyone found Craig and Keith online?

Not sure I can handle Dave Mouth for 9 innings.

Keith's doing the TV broadcast
not on the am 1300 web broadcast
Moldy hits into an EASY DP ball

Throw pulls the first baseman off the bag..corners, 2 outs

Mouth calls it "another terrible call!" at first.
The camera clearly showed it wasn't a clear out

Just a small chance that the ump had a better view

read that again
The camera clearly showed it wasn’t a clear out

deep

I know what I said :-)
Mouth's convincing evidence was

that Anders immediately turned for the dugout, like he knew he had the out. He wouldn’t do that otherwise = aggy honor code and all.

hey

they have an EMAIL from someone who saw a REPLAY on tv!!!!!!

Anders had no fewer than five body parts on the bag

when our runner touched it. Burnt Orange Conspiracy.

Which reminds me

We’re taking donations for our annual paying the umpire fund

We must have been a little short yesterday.
Can only afford to buy two games a series

Maybe you can change that

Rupp up

Great play by the 3B but throw gets away from the first baseman

1-0!

first one

is the hardest to get. off the schnide.

Especially after a shut out the day before
At the corners

Loy walks

Bases full for Keyes
HBP!

2-0

you are 2 mins ahead of the web radio broadcast

prolly cause you are an hour ahead

I'll slow my posting

If I were in Europe I could tell you how this game ends

let me ask my wife

she’s on the phone with her mom (7 hrs ahead)

theboux warming up in the pen?

i think that’s how you spell his name

Thebeau

Is how it’s spelled online

samsonite

i was way off

As a Louisianian I prefer your spelling

Here comes Theboux

oh hey

native louisianan here, too

What part?
Maitland singles!

2 RBI, 4-0 Texas!

this is more like it

thanks for showing up today, offense.

already knocked out their starter
Aggy defense has helped
its never good when your box score line starts with 0.2
5 R & 0 ER for him
KSU beating up on Tech

5-0

day late and a dollar short
Error #2 makes it 5-0

Grounder to third, Maitland hung up between 2nd and 3rd but nobody’s covering 2nd…

smells like saturday night baylor game so far
this is the proverbial balancing of the karmic scale
Grounder to short ends the inning

5-0 through 1

good lord

i may have to walk on over there and see this one for myself…

Loy just plays the position so insanely smoothly

Grounder for out #1

part of why torres is my MVP

getting loy to slide to ss, taking hernandez out, then playing pick ’em at dh

i don't know how you go from defensive abomination

to rather solid if not downright fairly good 3b in one offseason

Yea, his morph into a solid defender has been incredible
Groudner to 2B, walk, single

1st and 2nd, 2 outs

Wild pitch

2nd and 3rd

Grounder to 3B ends the threat

5-0 through 1.5

Texaggy reality:

Red Fishin Ag93 says:

We cannot allow a bad call to take us out of the game mentally, and we did.

We have battled through two BS calls in this series. Let’s not downplay what has clearly ruined the mentality, here.

One can only take so much of a clear disadvantage before mailing it in. We’re not a good enough team to overcame game changing decisions.

Nobody is that good.
where did you pull that nonsense from? god help you if youre spending time over on an Ag forum.

hope you poured a stiff drink first.

It's like a midget wrestling match:

you know you shouldn’t watch, but it’s just too hilarious not to:

Texaggy misery

And if I have to listen to Dave South doing PBP, I might as well go for total immersion. Now he says the aggy television crew is calling the play at first inconclusive.

youre a brave soul sir

thank you for your courage

Groundout, flyout, groundout

1-2-3 go the Horns…5-0 through 2

jeez, aggy radio going thru their emails non stop
Leadoff single for Raley

That dude is just a ballplayer

Another single

Seeing eye single through the right side

Colligan strikes out looking

Huge first out

Fly to center

Great play by Connor to get there…2 outs, runners on the corners

Steal of 2B

Grounder to Torres ends it!

to answer from above

baton rouge. although i left when i was 3.

New Orleanian until I was 18
sweeeeeeeeeeeet
Rupp leads it off with a single

Loy can’t get the bunt down then singles through the left side

Wow

Aggy 3B just saved at least a run with an incredible grab on a Keyes liner

shofner

says gametracker

Maitland grounds into a DP

5-0 through 3

how has jungmann looked?

he’s not being given much attention on the aTm feed (shocking, I know).

Aggies have threatened in each inning but he's been able to work through it

His pitch count is high, doubt he goes more than 5 or 6 innings

that's good

i’d rather him need to work than cruise through. he’ll be better game-tested.

although, to clarify

i’d rather him be able to get through 6 or 7 than just 5 or 6,

agreed.

But we have the luxury of a rested bullpen today since Workman was able to finish yesterdays game off.

workman was great

gave us a chance, all we could have asked for

Gametracker

shows he hasnt been missing many bats. Only 1 K so far today. But he’s been good all season at battling through innings where he gets himself in trouble and minimizing damage. 5 solid innngs should be sufficient today to get us to Dicharry/Wood to close it out.

The 4th was a quick inning

Should be good to go for two relatively quick innings

sure. 6 would be great

but with a 5-0 lead already, Id be happy with 5 solid scoreless innings out of the freshman.

If Workman can take over Jungmann's long relief role we'll be golden
I see no reason why that isnt a reasonable expectation.

He was nothing short of spectacular once he settled in yesterday.

agreed

especially if dicharry or thomas or even carrillo could get us a couple of outs here and there if necessary when we get to regionals KNOCK ON WOOD

Thomas' work in the midweek games could prove important in June
oooooooohhhh

here’s what i’m thinking: brandon belt makes his triumphant return to the mound leading texas to a cws championship. yeah, awesome.

Haha

Wouldn’t be shocked to see him pitch in the big xii tourney, didn’t David Maroul pitch 5 or 6 years ago when we were short on pitchers and not needing to win?

Groundout to Tucker

1 out

dumb aggie fans

are calling the radio station asking why there is no tv feed. incredible.

and they are still going over emails they are receiving about the call in the 1st.

Fantastic 6-4-3 DP ends the inning
Error on a grouner to SS

Then the SS turns around casually, Rowe advances to second

Obviously the ump's fault

along with their other two errors and the HBP.

Swinging bunt moves the runner to third
Tucker grounds to short

Infield was in, couldn’t score

come on belt!
Belt flies out :(

5-0 through 4

that was the at bat we needed out of Tucker
Two quick Aggy singles

One an infield single that Jungmann got a piece of, one barely passed a diving Loy

let's see what jungmann's got...
allright..time to bring some good karma

come on triple play now!

haha. fair enough.
Another single

Bases loaded, nobody out…another ball that wasn’t hit hard just blooped into center

Colligan up, this scares me
he's just as prone to strikeout as he is to crush one to center.....
Phew

Caught a break there, just missed an extra base hit

Extra bases there scores 2

2nd and 3rd, 5-3

gametracker shows runners at the corners
Yea, so it is

Apparently guy didn’t advance to second on the play

And Dicharry in for Jungmann.

things came a little unraveled for Taylor there. It didnt look good from the start. He wasnt missing as many bats as he had been in his previous outings. It was only a matter of time before the balls started finding holes.

Strike 3 looking!
thats a big out!
Holy EXPLETIVE!
Agroid hits a ball to pitcher

Flipped to Clark, runner at 3B gets in a rundown and is tagged out

Then

Other Agroid is advancing from 2B, which he stole, but is tagged out seconds later at third by Rupp

Rupp catching, not clark
Wow!!!

Great play!

Just your typpical 1-2 DP
haha

awesome.

5-3 Bot 5
Great play by the SS for out #1
What do you think we can expect from Dicharry?

Can he give us 3 innings? Or should we expect 2, with Wood pitching the final 3?

I bet he can give us 3

Hopefully the 6th and 1 or 2 of the 7th

Pop out for out #1

Flyout, groundout

5-3 through 5

Called strike three

Two away

he's in a groove.
2 out double down the left field line
Liner to Tucker ends it!

5-3 to the Bot 6

Fly to right for Keyes

Flyout to center, Rowe with a 2 out single

Ball four

1st and 2nd, 2 out

Stat update

Zero Ks for aggy this game. Three walks. Wow.

Passed ball makes it 2nd and 3rd
Tucker grounds out

5-3 through 6

Dicharry still in

Goes 3-0 to the first hitter then walks him

Then 3-0 to Colligan

Yikes

Fights back to full count

And gets a ground out…big first out for Dicharry

That's it for Dicharry
HBP on the first pitch

Oy, c’mon Austin!

Double makes it 5-4

Oy

Need a 1-2 DP here.
Strike three!

Two away

Groundout to Belt!

5-4 through 7

dicey dicey
Living dangerously

This has been a helluva series

Belt smokes a ball straight at the SS

1 out

Groundout, groundout

Through 7, 5-4 good guys

Strikeout for Wood

1 away

Liner off Tucker's glove

That would’ve been sweet…man on 1st, 1 out

Grounder to pitcher

Just gets the runner…two outs

Slow roller to Wood again

5-4 through 7.5!

Loy lines out

1 away

colligan, patterson, & shofner will be up for them in the 9th.

nothing will come easy….

Glad we get Colligan to start the inning, would've hated to see him last inning
Keyes Ks meekly
we're getting outhit 12-5

thank god for those aggie errors early on. the offense is apparently still in a funk.

Yea, Aggy has made its own bed though

With all their mistakes

Maitland grounds out

To the 9th, 5-4 Texas

3 outs away from a likely top 8 seed.

come on boys.

Colligan hits it to the 400 foot sign in dead center field

Wow, didn’t miss a homer by much there

Rowe caught it :-)

1 away

Bloop single

1 on, 1 out

Liner to right

Lusson is there…2 outs!

STRUCK HIM OUT!

Horns win!

way to battle today boys.

raced out to an early lead, and the bullpen held in there long enough to keep it together.

not the prettiest of victories, but in the end, a win is a win. 2 of 3 from the aggies, in a series where our bats didnt hardly come alive and our pitching wasnt as spectacular as it has been….Ill take it.

I dont see any way we dont end up with a top 8 national seed.

huzzah!

here’s to a good big 12 regular season, no matter how it finishes. we have the pitching and defense that can match with anyone in the postseason. just need to get the offense to be timely.

Excellent

12-men stranded. haha

No matter how many times Dave South says none of our runs were earned…it won’t change the outcome.

Hook ’em!

Ironically

If Aggy beats OU once they ensure us a conference crown

gig 'em aggy!
osu up 2-1

bottom 5

5-1 Pokes entering the 8th

6 OU outs from a Big 12 title…

Sooners threaten, but get nothing...... and like it

5-1 Pokes, bottom 8

3 outs

to a championship

Pokes get a walk, and nothing more; 5-1 going to the 9th

Do your thing, Tyler Blandford.

OSU turns two... ballgame

BIG 12 CHAMPS BABY!!!!

Big XII Champs!

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