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Texas Baseball Drops Third Straight Game in Less Than 24 Hours

By James Caldwell

Sep 4, 2016; Austin, TX, USA; The Texas Longhorns logo flag flies during the game between the Texas Longhorns and the Notre Dame Fighting Irish at Darrell K. Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium. Texas won 50-47 in double overtime. Mandatory Credit: Matt Cashore-USA TODAY Sports
Sep 4, 2016; Austin, TX, USA; The Texas Longhorns logo flag flies during the game between the Texas Longhorns and the Notre Dame Fighting Irish at Darrell K. Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium. Texas won 50-47 in double overtime. Mandatory Credit: Matt Cashore-USA TODAY Sports /
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Texas Baseball lost its third straight game in less than 24 hours Saturday night against Stanford.

And, for the third straight game, the Texas hitters let down the Texas pitching staff in California.

In the second game of a Saturday doubleheader, Stanford won 2-1 after Texas squandered multiple opportunities to put together big innings.

Meanwhile, Texas got another dominant starting pitching performance. This time, Blair Henley went eight innings for a complete game, gave up two runs, and only gave up five hits.

But, Texas’ offense only mustered five hits and one run despite Stanford committing three errors in the game.

Texas got their run on a Little League-style home run that included one of those errors. With Texas down 2-0, Austin Todd tripled off the wall in left and scored on a throwing error by the shortstop. But, that was it for Texas.

Texas Baseball Missed Opportunities To Pull A Stanford

Texas had another opportunity to take advantage of a Stanford error in the ninth inning to at least tie the game.

Bret Boswell opened the last inning with a single and he advanced to second on an error. But, Kody Clemens flied out, Patrick Mathis struck out, and Tate Shaw lined out to end the game, leaving Boswell at second base.

Texas had their oppprtunity to do what Stanford did in the previous two games – come from behind to win. But, the Longhorns were unable to cash in.

Meanwhile, Stanford’s decisive run came off the bat of nemesis Quinn Brodey. Brodey, who had walk-off hits on Friday and Saturday afternoon, drove in Stanford’s second run of the game in the fifth inning.

Austin Todd then scored his Little League home run in the very next frame to make it 2-1.

But, the Longhorns could not get that one big hit to tie. The result was Texas lost three straight very winnable games.

With the losses, Texas fell to 7-6 on the season. Stanford is now 9-3.

Absurd That Texas Lost Three Games

If you look at Texas’ starting pitching in this four-game series, it’s difficult to wrap your head around the fact that Texas lost three out of four.

  • Thursday night – Nolan Kingham: 7 IP, 0 runs, 8 Ks. Texas wins 4-0.
  • Friday night – Morgan Cooper: 6 IP, 1 run, 5 Ks. Texas loses 3-2.
  • Saturday afternoon – Kyle Johnston: 8 2/3 IP, 2 runs, 4 Ks. Texas loses 5-2 in the 10th inning via walk-off three-run HR. Johnston had a shutout through seven innings.
  • Saturday night – Blair Henley: 8 IP complete game, 2 runs, 3 Ks. Texas loses 2-1.

It adds up to the Texas starters gave up a total of five runs in four games. And, setting aside the two late runs that Johnston gave up Saturday afternoon, it was three runs through the meat of the four games.

At the very least, Texas should have split this series with Stanford. At most, Texas could have won all four games with better hitting.

The Longhorns hitters have to do better to help the pitching staff. Whether it’s getting on base to start rallies or getting timely, clutch hits, the lineup needs to perform.

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