Texas @ West Virginia Series Thread

[Horny Bull 2759]

Early start today fellas. Let's take care of business this weekend.

 

PROBABLE STARTING PITCHES
FRIDAY—West Virginia RHP BJ Myers (0-1, 4.89) vs. Texas RHP Nolan Kingham (5-2, 4.29)
SATURDAY—West Virginia RHP Kade Strowd (4-3, 4.24) vs. Texas RHP Chase Shugart (4-2, 4.12)
FRIDAY—West Virginia TBD vs. Texas RHP Blair Henley (5-5, 3.05)

[X-Wing @Aliciousness 103]

Huge weekend in the Big 12, although I guess every one of them from here on out has implications.  Would love to see this team play with their hair on fire like they did in Baylor series combined with the late-inning heroics in the ou and ok state series. 

Regardless, should be a fun last month before regionals are decided 🤘

[Fletch 5800]

Please tell me there's a stream 

[Horny Bull 2759]

 

[Horny Bull 2759]

1 minute ago, Fletch said:

Please tell me there's a stream 

There is a stream

 

[TexArcher 37774]

Hook'em, gentlemen.

[Horny Bull 2759]

Underway in Morgantown

[Horny Bull 2759]

Horns go in order T1

[zlavydra 2120]

Just too tough to hit this intimidating hurler.

[Horny Bull 2759]

RBI triple gives WVU a 1-0 lead

[X-Wing @Aliciousness 103]

Nvm, I forgot this team likes to make things hard on themselves.

Has Kingham just quit?

[NorthLoop 14192]

Hope they aren't afraid to yank Kingham if this shit keeps up

[NorthLoop 14192]

Ump has a tight zone on Nolan 

[Horny Bull 2759]

Kingham limits the damage, WVU leads 1-0 after 1

[NorthLoop 14192]

gets out of it with just 1 run 

[NorthLoop 14192]

That pitch was called a ball about 3 or 4 times when Nolan threw it

[NorthLoop 14192]

Texas get s a 2 out double, then pop out to end the 2nd

 

1-0 wvu

[Horny Bull 2759]

Reynolds is stranded at second

[Horny Bull 2759]

Mountaineers have first and second with no outs

Bases are now loaded with two outs

Edited April 27, 2018 by Horny Bull

[Horny Bull 2759]

Kingham gets out of trouble again, still 1-0 WVU after 2

[brojangles2 786]

Lol @ the WVU commentator thinking there was intent on the HBP. What a dumbass. 

[NorthLoop 14192]

Yeah that was Galindo level stupid

[Horny Bull 2759]

Horns go in order T3

[GHOST HORN 6]

thanks for the updates

 

[zlavydra 2120]

McKenzie has a sub-.600 OPS. That's Cantuesque.

[dcar00 14181]

nice 1st and 3rd  1 out.  hamilton with 2 errors.

[TwiceHorn 31452]

Announcer said something complimentary about our bullpen too. 

[dcar00 14181]

need another DP ball.

[Horny Bull 2759]

Errant pick off allows a run to score, 2-0 WVU

[dcar00 14181]

christ, kingham throws away the pickoff.  2-0  1 out runner on second.

I'm really tired of Kingham's shitty starts

[Horny Bull 2759]

According to Craig, game is now in a lightning delay

[dcar00 14181]

if you have a roku you can get the game on mountaineerTV app.

[X-Wing @Aliciousness 103]

Typical Texas to play like they're scared straight against a mediocre team on the road. 

I like Pierce, and believe he could be the guy, but No.1 priority should be to recruit some players with some balls, because it's clear that not very many players on this team, especially the starting rotation, have any

It's fucking WVU baseball, guys.  Augie's average teams would've crushed this team

[dcar00 14181]

kingham got pissed about the errors.  then started throwing hard fast pickoffs.  what he needed to do was worry about himself and get another groundball.  he's not good enough to get pissed when our usual best fielder has a bad inning.

[zlavydra 2120]

25 minutes ago, X-Wing @Aliciousness said:

Typical Texas to play like they're scared straight against a mediocre team on the road. 

I like Pierce, and believe he could be the guy, but No.1 priority should be to recruit some players with some balls, because it's clear that not very many players on this team, especially the starting rotation, have any

It's fucking WVU baseball, guys.  Augie's average teams would've crushed this team

Nah, we've never crushed WVU. Never even won a series in Morgantown.

[X-Wing @Aliciousness 103]

2 minutes ago, zlavydra said:

Nah, we've never crushed WVU. Never even won a series in Morgantown.

He only ever coached against them his last 4 years, which were arguably his worst 4 years sans 2014, which was also an average team in comparison to his others (and that team did indeed lose 2 of 3 to wvu in Morgantown that year so I guess I see your point)

Still, there is something really wrong with this athletic dept on the men's side that just immensely struggles in road games.  These kids have got to realize that they actually have to work and need mental toughness if they ever want to compete for anything meaningful at this university.  The cower in fear shit is beginning to get real old against mediocre teams.

[BillyGoatHill 4312]

Kingham has been a total headcase this year....

[Horny Bull 2759]

About to resume play in Morgantown

[Horny Bull 2759]

2-0 WVU after 3

[zlavydra 2120]

No one told me Lance Lynn was pitching

[Horny Bull 2759]

Another lightning delay

[TwiceHorn 31452]

28 minutes ago, BillyGoatHill said:

Kingham has been a total headcase this year....

Really all of our pitchers have.  Skip apparently was doing something very right or very evil with their minds, because they have fallen apart in his absence.

[petscii 1189]

And we are back...

[Horny Bull 2759]

Game about to resume, again..

[texasstrong12 4668]

24 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

Really all of our pitchers have.  Skip apparently was doing something very right or very evil with their minds, because they have fallen apart in his absence.

Kingham wasn't very good under Skip. Granted, he was a freshman. 

Really, Kingham's only good year was last year under the new staff. 

[TwiceHorn 31452]

1 minute ago, texasstrong12 said:

Kingham wasn't very good under Skip. Granted, he was a freshman. 

Really, Kingham's only good year was last year under the new staff. 

True enough, but the toughness and smarts of our pitchers seems to have declined from last year.

 

I had this weird sense most of last year that Kingham's success was flukey or lucky.  I get that sometimes and it takes a second season of quality for it to go away.  Guess I was right in some weird way.

Edited April 28, 2018 by TwiceHorn

[texasstrong12 4668]

7 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

True enough, but the toughness and smarts of our pitchers seems to have declined from last year.

no doubt. Skip is probably the best pitching coach in the country. 

I just think Kingham might be a headcase in general. Kingham's freshman year was like watching wild thing out there. You didn't know if it was going to be right down the middle or thrown 20 feet over the catcher's head. 

I was really high on Kingham after last year but not sure why he's being projected so high in mock drafts right now. He's had 1 really good year and 2 pretty bad years so far at this level. Kingham does have good stuff when he's on. 

[Horny Bull 2759]

RBI triple for Hamilton cuts the lead to 2-1

[dcar00 14181]

hamilton with the RBI triple.  makes up for his errors.

[Horny Bull 2759]

RBI single for Reynolds ties the game at 2