BASEBALL WEEKEND SERIES THREAD: Melendez goes deep TWICE and No. 4 Texas sweeps KSU (Sun. 5:00 p.m.)
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Yeah I know, but I’d rather not have Tech be the one to do it. They’re right there too.
Finally got to catch a game at the Disch in over a year. Lots of fun. Nice cool breeze coming in from the outfield.
Saturday 6:23 p.m. Update:
In a beautiful afternoon ballgame at UFCU Disch-Falk Field, the No. 4 Texas Longhorns (24-8, 9-2) dismantled the Kansas State Wildcats (17-13, 2-6), 15-1. Mike Antico started the ballgame off with a bang, a lead off homer off the scoreboard in right field, but the real explosion came later when the Texas batters put up crooked numbers in back-to-back innings.
First, Tristan Stevens deserves recognition for another excellent outing. Despite having plenty of room to work with on the scoreboard, He took it upon himself to make sure Kansas State never felt like they were in this game after the third inning. Stevens was incredibly efficient, throwing only 68 pitches in seven complete innings and allowing 1 run on 8 hits.
The story of the night was the Texas offense, though. Despite missing three players due to yesterday's bench-clearing debacle, the bats did not skip a beat. Antico's leadoff blast set the tone for the game, immediately giving Texas a 1-0 lead.
The onslaught of plate-crossings began in the third, when the Longhorns put up 7 runs with 3 walks and 6 hits. RBI singles by Ardoin, Hodo III, and Stehly were capped off by a RBI double by Dylan Campbell. That's not all, of course. In the fourth, the Longhorns, supported by a towering home run by Ivan Melendez (his fifth game in a row with a homer), tacked on 5 more runs.
From then on, Texas set the game on cruise control and rolled on to a double-digit crushing victory that finished in time to get home for dinner.
"We not only think that we can play well, we are showcasing it." Zach Zubia said following the victory. His biggest moment of the game came when he drew a bases loaded walk, which began the scoring for the Longhorns in their massive third inning. Remarkably, Zubia walked in six straight plate appearances dating back to yesterday before breaking the streak with a single in the seventh.
"You're tough to beat when you go out and pitch with efficiency, play great defense, have great at-bat after great at-bat against good stuff," head coach David Pierce said,"Im just so proud of this team, their work, and their togetherness. We're going to deal with some adversity, there's no doubt, but I just like the mindset and the mentality of this team right now."
"Tough to beat" is an understatement in this instance.
Can't ask for a much better effort than that from the boys in burnt orange and white. once again, they'll be playing for a sweep on Sunday.
Final Stats:
In a beautiful afternoon ballgame at UFCU Disch-Falk Field, the No. 4 Texas Longhorns (24-8, 9-2) dismantled the Kansas State Wildcats (17-13, 2-6), 15-1. Mike Antico started the ballgame off with a bang, a lead off homer off the scoreboard in right field, but the real explosion came later when the Texas batters put up crooked numbers in back-to-back innings.
First, Tristan Stevens deserves recognition for another excellent outing. Despite having plenty of room to work with on the scoreboard, He took it upon himself to make sure Kansas State never felt like they were in this game after the third inning. Stevens was incredibly efficient, throwing only 68 pitches in seven complete innings and allowing 1 run on 8 hits.
The story of the night was the Texas offense, though. Despite missing three players due to yesterday's bench-clearing debacle, the bats did not skip a beat. Antico's leadoff blast set the tone for the game, immediately giving Texas a 1-0 lead.
The onslaught of plate-crossings began in the third, when the Longhorns put up 7 runs with 3 walks and 6 hits. RBI singles by Ardoin, Hodo III, and Stehly were capped off by a RBI double by Dylan Campbell. That's not all, of course. In the fourth, the Longhorns, supported by a towering home run by Ivan Melendez (his fifth game in a row with a homer), tacked on 5 more runs.
From then on, Texas set the game on cruise control and rolled on to a double-digit crushing victory that finished in time to get home for dinner.
"We not only think that we can play well, we are showcasing it." Zach Zubia said following the victory. His biggest moment of the game came when he drew a bases loaded walk, which began the scoring for the Longhorns in their massive third inning. Remarkably, Zubia walked in six straight plate appearances dating back to yesterday before breaking the streak with a single in the seventh.
"You're tough to beat when you go out and pitch with efficiency, play great defense, have great at-bat after great at-bat against good stuff," head coach David Pierce said,"Im just so proud of this team, their work, and their togetherness. We're going to deal with some adversity, there's no doubt, but I just like the mindset and the mentality of this team right now."
"Tough to beat" is an understatement in this instance.
Can't ask for a much better effort than that from the boys in burnt orange and white. once again, they'll be playing for a sweep on Sunday.
Final Stats:
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Ford, Stehli, and Campbell 4 - 11 with 4 runs scored. That's stepping up. The thing about this team, contrary to previous reports that they can't hit, is that Tulo has done a marvelous job with the hitting instruction and these guys are mauling opponents. Up and down the lineup and into the two-deep they don't have any holes right now.
IIRC the lil slugger made it out to a game a few weeks ago.
Thanks Blake—guess I missed that one. Appreciate your timely updates today.
Zubia with the lone stolen base. Someone is enjoying being skinny.
That was impressive and I think d1baseball needs to reconsider not having Texas projected as a top-8 national seed.
When they did those they weren’t listing them according to right now but what they think will end up happening. When you look at it that way, they are not as hot on our team as some others might think they should be and seem to like TT (national seed #4), TCU (national #3), Notre Dame (national #7), and Arizona (national #8) more moving forward.
Miss St is also ahead of us in their mind. Miss St is a very good team but really shocked they think ND and Arizona are better teams than Texas. Also when you truly look at how TT has played and how close they’ve played alot of inferior teams, they are also hard to understand why they like TT over Texas. TCU at the time you can definitely make an argument for being over Texas (no issues there).
When they did those they weren’t listing them according to right now but what they think will end up happening. When you look at it that way, they are not as hot on our team as some others might think they should be and seem to like TT (national seed #4), TCU (national #3), Notre Dame (national #7), and Arizona (national #8) more moving forward.
Miss St is also ahead of us in their mind. Miss St is a very good team but really shocked they think ND and Arizona are better teams than Texas. Also when you truly look at how TT has played and how close they’ve played alot of inferior teams, they are also hard to understand why they like TT over Texas. TCU at the time you can definitely make an argument for being over Texas (no issues there).
| Team | Record | Win % | GB | Overall | Overall % | Streak |
 TCU | 7-1 | 0.875 | - | 22-8 | 0.733 | L1 |
 Texas | 9-2 | 0.818 | -0.5 | 24-8 | 0.750 | W7 |
 Oklahoma State | 6-3 | 0.667 | 1.5 | 20-7-1 | 0.714 | W4 |
 Texas Tech | 4-4 | 0.500 | 3 | 21-7 | 0.750 | W1 |
 Baylor | 3-5 | 0.375 | 4 | 21-10 | 0.677 | W8 |
 West Virginia | 3-5 | 0.375 | 4 | 11-14 | 0.440 | L5 |
 Kansas | 2-6 | 0.250 | 5 | 18-12 | 0.600 | W1 |
 Kansas State | 2-6 | 0.250 | 5 | 17-13 | 0.567 | L2 |
 Oklahoma | 2-6 |
I’m planning on trying to come to a game or two next year, as well as doing the same for Sam Houston, my alma mater.
It’s the plate approach that the whole lineup has and feels like the bats can get going more so than in previous years where it felt like we always had guys watching strikes
Sunday 12:40 p.m. update:
Sunday lineup for No. 4 Texas. Longhorns going for their second-straight sweep.
Sunday lineup for No. 4 Texas. Longhorns going for their second-straight sweep.
KSU hits a two-out double to the wall in RF but a hard grounder at Daly ends the top of the first. 0-0 B1.
Antico pops out.
Daly gives one a deep ride to CF but it's caught on the warning track. Two down.
Zubia walks to keep the inning going. Ardoin smokes a hard one-hopper the 3B makes a fantastic snag of before firing to first to end the inning. Ardoin has been robbed more than anyone this year. 0-0 T2.
Daly gives one a deep ride to CF but it's caught on the warning track. Two down.
Zubia walks to keep the inning going. Ardoin smokes a hard one-hopper the 3B makes a fantastic snag of before firing to first to end the inning. Ardoin has been robbed more than anyone this year. 0-0 T2.
Tech jumped out to a 7-1 lead against TCU. Current in the 3rd inning.
Tech jumped out to a 7-1 lead against TCU. Current in the 3rd inning.
Mike Antico remains RED-HOT at the plate. He shows his strength by driving a two-run homer out to LCF just below the video board. 2-0 Texas B3.
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