Texas @ Houston Weekend Series

[Horny Bull 2,766]

Houston has loaded the bases with two outs.

[Blackcat00 759]

Trey with a very mediocre start to his 2021 season. 

Edited March 6, 2021 by Blackcat00

[maninblack 7,974]

Getting away without an error on that one.

[Machinator 32,099]

Witt gets a strikeout to escape the jam.

[TwiceHorn 31,514]

Whew.  Living dangerously there.

[Horny Bull 2,766]

Witt gets a K to end the inning, 2-2 after 8.

[zlavydra 2,123]

Hodo opposite field single

[Horny Bull 2,766]

Hodo is stranded at first T9.

[zlavydra 2,123]

Todd immediately swings at a pitcher's pitch and grounds out weakly 

[Blackcat00 759]

Hodo is seeing it well today. 

[Horny Bull 2,766]

Nixon on to pitch.

[zlavydra 2,123]

Very impressive change up from Nixon.

[zlavydra 2,123]

Very unimpressive two-strike  cookie lined for a single.

[Machinator 32,099]

Pretty good for a true freshman.

[zlavydra 2,123]

Made one bad pitch, but otherwise am excellent inning. Looks like we have something here 

[Balcones 309]

How about a HR?

[zlavydra 2,123]

Two-hard hit balls, but nothing doing top 10

[Pato del Muerto 52,536]

1 minute ago, Balcones said:

How about a HR?

[Machinator 32,099]

Nixon gives up a leadoff single but gets two strikeouts after a sac bunt to keep the game going.

[zlavydra 2,123]

Nixon showing some off speed command. Very nice.

[Restinmybones 111]

Just now, Machinator said:

Nixon gives up a leadoff single but gets two strikeouts after a sac bunt to keep the game going.

By the way, thanks for doing this.

[Machinator 32,099]

Four-pitch walk for Kennedy. None of them were even close. One out

Edited March 6, 2021 by Machinator

[Machinator 32,099]

 

[Machinator 32,099]

Ardoin groundout moves Kennedy to second.

[Machinator 32,099]

Antico gets intentionally walked.

[Machinator 32,099]

Hodo strikes out swinging. 

[Blackcat00 759]

Put the ball in play shit. 

[Machinator 32,099]

Walk-off HR wins it for Houston.

3-2 in 11 innings.

[shadow_operative2.0 16,012]

We just got walked off. 

[rivin 199]

Fuck.

[Balcones 309]

Ballgame 

[troph 24,896]

Shitballs. 
 

if this is the team DP wants to compete with I don’t want to see the team he’s worried about. 

[B00M 6,431]

This is an inexcusably bad offensive team. 

[Restinmybones 111]

Tough. Well, Houston is usually pretty damn good. This team has been looking better since those terrible first few games.

[TwiceHorn 31,514]

1 minute ago, troph said:

Shitballs. 
 

if this is the team DP wants to compete with I don’t want to see the team he’s worried about. 

It's good that we're mostly dookystomping our weak opponents.  Most of our recent poor teams haven't done that.

It's not so good that we can barely beat a UH and can't even sniff beating a top 10 team.

Edited March 6, 2021 by TwiceHorn

[Machinator 32,099]

A couple bad pitches by Nixon but he showed good stuff. It shouldn't have come to that.

[Fletch 5,800]

2 minutes ago, B00M said:

This is an inexcusably bad offensive team. 

It’s been this way since Mark Payton left. Well, excluding Kody going full video game mode 

[troph 24,896]

22 minutes ago, Fletch said:

It’s been this way since Mark Payton left. Well, excluding Kody going full video game mode 

Well those teams weren’t that good on offense either. Pitching and defense with a couple of playmakers but never the team that could out score another if pitching was off. I’m super tired of solid pitching performances turning to losses because the pitching isn’t absolutely perfect. Fuck guys. Only one day removed from a complete game shut out and we only won that by one run. Wtf?

[Fletch 5,800]

Just now, troph said:

Well those teams weren’t that good on offense either. Pitching and defense with a couple of playmakers but never the team that could out score another if pitching was off. I’m super tired of solid pitching performances turning to losses because the pitching isn’t absolutely perfect. Fuck guys. Only one day removed from a complete game shut out and we only won that by one run. Wtf?

Yeah I know. The last truly elite team we had was in 2010. The fuck happened? How the hell did we go from Cameron Rupp and Brandon Belt and Kevin Keyes to Michael McCann and Jake McKenzie and Tate Shaw?

[Blackcat00 759]

Zubia was 0-6. This shouldn't be happening for a veteran guy with the bat he has. 

I'm not sold that Pierce can develop hitters. Literally look lost at the. plate at time. 

[maninblack 7,974]

3 minutes ago, Fletch said:

Yeah I know. The last truly elite team we had was in 2010. The fuck happened? How the hell did we go from Cameron Rupp and Brandon Belt and Kevin Keyes to Michael McCann and Jake McKenzie and Tate Shaw?

Augie lost his fastball and Pierce hasn't really had one that I've seen since getting here.

[TwiceHorn 31,514]

4 minutes ago, Blackcat00 said:

Zubia was 0-6. This shouldn't be happening for a veteran guy with the bat he has. 

I'm not sold that Pierce can develop hitters. Literally look lost at the. plate at time. 

Strange thing is that it is almost identical to what we saw from end-stage Augie.  A lot (most? all?) of us attributed that to Harmon getting lazy with recruiting and then being replaced with Nicholson, but I suppose there was a development aspect to it as well.

Recruiting has perked up some, it seems, but it also seems like the same ol shit.

The one thing it does correlate to for sure is when they took the air out of the bats.  We went completely in the shitter offensively after that and have never crawled out, despite the ball being adjusted, DIsch-Falk, etc.

Edited March 7, 2021 by TwiceHorn

[troph 24,896]

3 minutes ago, Blackcat00 said:

Zubia was 0-6. This shouldn't be happening for a veteran guy with the bat he has. 

I'm not sold that Pierce can develop hitters. Literally look lost at the. plate at time. 

Haven’t been able to watch much this year are we at least done lip-synching Lionel Richie’s Ballerina Girl at the plate?  

[Fletch 5,800]

2017 we show major improvement over 2015 and 16. We all know what happened in 2018. I can’t explain 2019. Started off hot then just completely lost confidence. We looked alright last year thanks to having an above average catcher and shortstop. Looks like more of the same this year. Granted in Pierce’s first 2 years we started off like 12-10 or whatever then heated up come conference play. Fuck idk. It is really obvious Pierce loves running up opposing pitch counts based on how many meatballs we just watch go by then swing at a telegraphed curve in the dirt. God dammit just fuck everything 

[TwiceHorn 31,514]

One thing that's odd.  In the past when we've lost close, low-offense games like this, it's rare for us to have what, 9 hits?  Our usual low-offense, low-score games barf up like 4, if that.

[Fletch 5,800]

9 minutes ago, Blackcat00 said:

Zubia was 0-6. This shouldn't be happening for a veteran guy with the bat he has. 

I'm not sold that Pierce can develop hitters. Literally look lost at the. plate at time. 

I’m not particularly sold either, but the Clemens brothers both improved significantly under him. Same with David Hamilton. Other than that, idk. Zubia and Todd look the exact fucking same as they did as freshman and that was like 10 years ago 

[dcar00 14,318]

 

20 minutes ago, Fletch said:

I’m not particularly sold either, but the Clemens brothers both improved significantly under him. Same with David Hamilton. Other than that, idk. Zubia and Todd look the exact fucking same as they did as freshman and that was like 10 years ago 

so is this where you tell me I have shitty baseball takes? yeah we looked good for a few games against BYU as predicted.  typical Pierce.  Clemens doesn't count.  you don't think they had their own hitting coaches?

This was as predictable as the sun rising.

[Cajun 11,722]

Keeping the tradition alive of making every opposing pitcher look like an All American.

Well done Horns!

So proud of ya.

[Restinmybones 111]

46 minutes ago, maninblack said:

Augie lost his fastball and Pierce hasn't really had one that I've seen since getting here.

Augie got old. It happens... if you're lucky. 

[Fletch 5,800]

14 minutes ago, dcar00 said:

 

so is this where you tell me I have shitty baseball takes? yeah we looked good for a few games against BYU as predicted.  typical Pierce.  Clemens doesn't count.  you don't think they had their own hitting coaches?

This was as predictable as the sun rising.

Have I ever told you you have shitty baseball takes? Honestly don’t remember. Ok sure. The Clemens brothers definitely had some extra help but they still kind of sucked until Pierce got here. But yeah all these guys are his recruits beside Todd and we can’t hit a beach ball. 2017 and 18 were refreshing cause we were that fucking bad in 2015 and 16. We’re “young” but not get clobbered in Arlington, drop a game to byu and cougar high young. Assuming we don’t pull a 2018 and get hot in conference, go buy Corbin or Pat Casey or Jay Johnson