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Consider the questions about Chance Ruffin answered. For now. Ruffin came in and struck out three of the five batters he faced to shut the door after a very strong no-decision by Taylor Jungmann (7.2 IP, 4 H, 1 ER, 8 Ks). Jungmann's ERA has now skyrocketed to 0.83 while Chance has now given up just the one earned run in six appearances (0.82 ERA). Brandon Loy's batting average may still stink but he had the biggest hit of the night for the Horns, an RBI double in the bottom of the eighth to give Texas the lead for good. After an incredible start, Tant Shepherd is coming back down to earth with an 0-11 performance his last three games, but Tant got on base and scored both runs for Texas on Friday. The win over Rice broke a four game losing streak to the Owls.

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It'll be Brandon Workman on the mound at 3:30 PM today against Houston's Friday starter the first two weeks of the season Michael Goodnight (1-1, 6.52 ERA). There's free video for the game available here.

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Brandon Workman, 4.09 1-0

Mizzou and TCU in extra innings

Tied at 3, probably will delay the start of Horns-Cougs

what time is our game likely to start?
Last night we were 20 minutes late

So I’d guess it would start in the next 10 minutes, no idea though

thanks

switching between this and bball

Looks like it's going to start soon
Texas the road team

Shepherd leading things off

Nice video for the game from MLB.com
Tant Ks

Loy’s up

Goodnight is going straight at hitters…Loy Ks

Rupp walks

Moldy singles

1st and 2nd, 2 out

Need a base hit from Keyes
Does the sound suck for anyone else

Just off a bit

Yup. watch the hit and then hear the bat
Keyes strikes out

High heat

Bot 1 0-0

Goodnight goes Keyes
isn't usually the other way around?

Usually the video is delayed

I guess you get what you pay for
Leadoff triple for Houston
Houston's first hit of the game is a stand up triple? uh oh
Wild pitch scores a run
Listening to these broadcasters

makes me even more grateful for Craig & Keith.

“How ’bout it baby!”

“Wooo son!”

Seriously, Cougar High?

after what? two pitches?
Yea, they're a tad excitable
Groundout to Loy

Strikeout

2 away

Groundout to Tant

1-0 Houston through 1

Rowe hammers a ball to left center

Just missed a homer, deep part of the ballpark so it’s a long out

Kyle Lusson walks

He needs a nickname, both Lussons do

Picked off

:(

Can't argue a balk
These broadcasters are getting on my nerves

Learn the rules, for crying out loud.

It's CUSA baseball, can't expect much more...

Sucks that we can’t listen to Keith Moreland today

Lusson walks

Balked to second

Etier strikes out

1-0 Houston

We sure strikeout a lot
Yea

About 6% more than last year

At least we are running up Goodnight's pitch count

He’s closing in on 50 after 2 innings.

Beautiful play by Kevin Lusson

1 away

Man is the basketball team frustrating to watch
Just turned the tv off can't stand watching them lose so much they are the worst first place team this year
Nice plays by Loy and Etier

3 quick outs…

1-0 through 2

Shepherd flies out to left
Loy singles up the middle

And another balk called

I can't believe the umps are allowing this

It is explicitly against the rules to argue a balk call.

May not be arguing

May just be getting clarification, which I believe is allowed

Called strike three

That pitch looked inside, Rupp not thrilled

And that'll do it for me watching basketball
Moldy walks

Goodnight throwing a ton of pitches, anybody got a count?

I'm switching over to Keith & Bill

Keith usually gives the count pretty frequently when it’s getting high, but best I can figure, he’s around 65 or so.

Wish I could do that :(
Keyes smokes one to straight away center

But the park’s too deep. That’s a homer in Omaha.

1-0 Houston Bot 3

Didn't see how the first out was made

Had hit ball, Etier makes a great play

2 away

Grounder to Loy for the first out
Groundout to Loy

9 straight retired by Workman, really has just two bad pitches.

1-0 through 3

Workman only at 30 pitches after 3
Gotta step away for a bit

Back soon, grab us some runs

Kevin Lusson

0-1 foul
1-1 low
1-2 foul
2-2 low
3-2 high

K swinging

Rowe flied out to center for the 1st out

Two outs, no one one

Kyle Lusson

0-1 looking
1-1 low
2-1 high
2-2 foul
 
K swinging

7 Ks for Goodnight, but 82 pitches through 4 innings

2-3-4 up for Rice

Strike out swinging for the first out

Strike out swinging for the 2nd out

Workman in a groove

Loy flashes the leather again for the 3rd out

Must get to Goodnight in this inning.

Etier and Shepherd both ground out to 3rd
Loy flies out to left

Quick inning for Goodnight. 90 pitches after 5.

5-6-7 up for Rice
Workman has retired 12 in a row
Fly out to center

1 out, no one on

Rupp fields a chopper in front of the plate and gets the out at first

2 outs, no one on

Single up the middle past Etier

2 outs, runner on 1st

Workman pitching from the stretch for the first time today
4-pitch walk

2 outs, runners on 1st and 2nd

Owls bring in a pinch runner at 2nd

Cougar High sounding very aggy-ish with their "Ball 5" nonsense
We really need to win after the embarrassing loss to Baylor on the hardwood
Workman strikes out Still to end the inning

He’s thrown 59 pitches through 5 innings

He's absolutely rolling

A shame that he’s getting no offense

I thought that was Travis Tucker on the kiss cam for a sec
Rupp, Moldy, and Keyes up
Whats up with the voice over guy in between innings I feel like im watching a movie trailer
These announcers are seriously getting wood just mentioning Goodnights name
Ugh

Another hard hit ball

Goodnight about to throw his 100th pitch
Do we have a leadoff runner on today?
Nope

9 Ks in 6 innings is pathetic. Goodnight is not Stephen Strasburg.

Top of the order up for Rice
Workman doesn't look as comfortable now
Workman is throwing an awesome game to bad he can't get any run support
Big K for Workman
Raynor Noble will milk Goodnight for all he can get

Need to get runners on base

Nice DP

Let’s get some runs!

Alright last 9 outs lets make them count
Rowe, Lusson, Lusson up for Texas

Goodnight at just over 100 pitches

Why's Rowe swinging at the first pitch?

And going out of the zone at that

Can't let this guy have 6-pitch innings

His control is not that great.

Make him work for it.

Bill Little is way off on his pitch count for Goodnight

Poor Bill

Damn

Helluva play by the SS

We have faced a couple of good pitchers this weekend

But our offense has been horrible. No way around it.

Definitely

Loy and Kevin Lusson are just killing us (Loy’s hit last night notwithstanding)

New pitcher for Houston
Starting with Etier, Shepherd, and Loy

Loy has one of those Horns’ 2 hits today, so we’ve got that going for us

Ty Stuckey

3.38 ERA, 5.1 IP, 2 ER, 8 walks

What a horrible call
Etier had to swing at that high pitch

Because of the ump’s terrible call on the pitch before

Did he just woo
Nothing worse than commenators trying to make early season college baseball sound critical
Loy walks

Finally a baserunner

This ump aswelll as the announcers are horrible
wow ball 4 I thought he was going to ring up for strike 3
Loy has now been picked off 5 times this season

That’s absurd

Another BS call

But our base running has been awful too

I thought he was out

Oy

Hey boys, just got to the thread

How’s the game?

Workman has been amazing

Nothing on offense

It seems like I remember something like that last night

when I was at Minute Maid….

We're on the verge of losing 1-0 to Cougar High, wasting a great outing by Workman
Nice pick off.

Runte should have bunte :)

Wow...

We got 2-hit against a dude with 6.52 ERA??

Yea

It happens :(

3 more outs to go

Rupp, Keyes, Moldy

Enjoying the Jay-Z between innings
Yea Cameron!

Single

First leadoff hitter on
Cohl Walla will PR
C'mon Moldy!
3-1 pitch coming
Ball four!

Didn’t miss by much there

This ump is all over the place

Talk about moving the goalposts

Bunt Keyes here

IMO

Please no DP ball
Looked like the same pitch as strike two.
Bunt sounds great right now
Maitland to PR for Moldy
Score? Inning? Is this game on TV?
1-0 Houston

Top 9

Ugh

What is he swinging at?

What a terrible AB
Connor Rowe up

He’s hit the ball hard today

Nasty pitch, swung at a ball
Rowe has been clutch

Let’s see if he can pull it out

Nice job laying off the slider
Strikeout, gotta take a swing at that

must have been guessing slider. Ugh.

Ugh

Strikes out looking, right down the middle

Dang man, this sucks
Juco transfer Paul Montabano

First AB

Interesting decision from Augie
It worked with Kyle Russell :)
Montalbano
Wow, how was that not a strike?
Not all that shocking

Just shows what Augie thinks about this game, it’s a learning opportunity

Damn

That sucks

Ahh fuck

so close to tying the game. Lol at the homer color commentator.

Hit it hard, just a great play
Awwwww

That was painful. Game of inches.

What a shitty day

losing to fucking Baylor and U of H on the same day.

Yeah

I would walk a wide ciricle around Brandon Workman tonight if I were those guys

Oh well

Mizzou tomorrow at 11 AM

Is this something we'll have to worry about all year?

Starting pitching playing their hearts out but getting no run support?

Looks that way so far
I would think the hittting will come around like last year
Hmm... so Rice is playing "Texas Tech A&M"

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