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Baseball Game Thread: No. 2 Texas vs. No. 18 Texas A&M (Friday, 7 p.m.)

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    Seven walks, two wild pitches, one hit batter, at least one passed ball, an overturned CS and an error that led to what turned out to be the winning run scoring. And that's not counting Gumbo's mispla

  • Jeff Howe
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    To your point, Leffew had been good in his three appearances since the Auburn loss until tonight. The same goes for Crossland's five appearances since the Ole Miss loss.

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    BOOM! 2-RUN BOMB BY ROBBINS!

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ENTERED AN INNING WITH THE LEAD AND GAVE UP FIVE F*NG WALKS IN ONE INNING.

 

NINE RUNS ON 7 HITS.

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1 minute ago, horns96 said:

ENTERED AN INNING WITH THE LEAD AND GAVE UP FIVE F*NG WALKS IN ONE INNING.

Bullpen has a LOT of growing up to do before June

That’s a Schloss loss.  Has to be quick with the hook against that Ag lineup.  No reason to let Leffew throw wild for 3 batters.  The entire stadium and millions watching on TV saw he didn’t have it tonight after 1 batter. 

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Seven walks, two wild pitches, one hit batter, at least one passed ball, an overturned CS and an error that led to what turned out to be the winning run scoring. And that's not counting Gumbo's misplayed ball in left field and other chances the Longhorns had to get outs that they let get away.

It's tough to win anywhere, let alone on the road in the SEC, when you make that many mistakes.

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Texas has played five SEC series. The Longhorns are 1-4 in openers, with a run-rule win over OU and losses to Ole Miss, Auburn, South Carolina and the Aggies.

Three of the four losses have been one-run losses.

Have to overturn the bullpen in the off-season. Whatever they're paying these guys, it's way too much. If we manage to make it out of a regional this year they will get bounced in the Supers barring immaculate outings from starters.

2 minutes ago, f1revo said:

Have to overturn the bullpen in the off-season.

The same guys who won us games the previous 3 weekends?

It’s college baseball. Bullpens are going to fickle. Leffew and Crossland have ERA’s under 2.00 heading into tonight. Are they not allowed a bad night?

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1 minute ago, Assistant Regional Manager said:

The same guys who won us games the previous 3 weekends?

It’s college baseball. Bullpens are going to fickle. Leffew and Crossland have ERA’s under 2.00 heading into tonight. Are they not allowed a bad night?

To your point, Leffew had been good in his three appearances since the Auburn loss until tonight. The same goes for Crossland's five appearances since the Ole Miss loss.

1 minute ago, Assistant Regional Manager said:

The same guys who won us games the previous 3 weekends?

It’s college baseball. Bullpens are going to fickle. Leffew and Crossland have ERA’s under 2.00 heading into tonight. Are they not allowed a bad night?

Doesn't mean we have to bounce every last person but most of them haven't been too great and we don't have a single dependable guy you can put out there this year. There's fickle and then there's expected collapse and the latter is where we are with this group.

5 minutes ago, f1revo said:

Doesn't mean we have to bounce every last person but most of them haven't been too great and we don't have a single dependable guy you can put out there this year. There's fickle and then there's expected collapse and the latter is where we are with this group.

The bullpen single handily won the series last weekend and the last two games against OU. We barely hit in any of those games.

Winter 0.00 ERA

Leffew 1.59 ERA

Crossland 1.32 ERA

Cozart 2.08 ERA

Walker 2.61 ERA

You can not sit here and say with a straight face that we don’t have a single dependable guy. The games the last month have shown that is not the case at all.

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Not sure if they are squeezing the ball for more speed or what but we have a bunch of pitches hitting the ground.  They have to get that corrected.   I lost count on how many there were for all pitchers combined.    
 

 

37 minutes ago, Assistant Regional Manager said:

The same guys who won us games the previous 3 weekends?

It’s college baseball. Bullpens are going to fickle. Leffew and Crossland have ERA’s under 2.00 heading into tonight. Are they not allowed a bad night?

Bullpens are going to allow 3 runs on no hits? That should never happen at Texas. No excuses

 

*in one inning

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Obviously the walks by LaFew and Crossland lost the game. I was thinking after the second walk by LaFew that Schloss should go to Grubbs, but Grubbs has had some problems too. 

That said, the thing that was just a killer all game long was Borba continuously striking out and looking really bad doing it. The Aggie freshmen were infinitely better than him at the plate. That just can't happen.

We know there are good arms, but it appears that some of the relievers are not very consistent.   Lights out one outing, and wild or hittable the next. Those walks killed us, but not by themselves.  We struck out 11 times, but only had 3 walks.  Our pitchers gave up 7 walks and only struck out 7.  We only gave up 7 hits to our 10 we had off of their pitchers.  Better ball control and some better fielding would have made the difference and given us a win.

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