With Saturday’s game over, Longhorns’ regular season is officially over. They ended on a strong note, sweeping the series against Kansas. Now this week they will enter the Big 12 Championship with a five-game winning streak to return to the top 16 and organize a regional.
Game 1: No. 22 Texas 12 Kansas 4
After a week-long break, Longhorns hoped Pete Hansen would make a solid start to the mound, which he would easily give up. Hansen would leave the run at the top of the third, but he would settle down immediately, leaving only three more runs at his start. After all, Hansen would give the Longhorns six four-run baseball innings, scoring seven hits and five strikeouts. He would get his ninth win of the season as he entered the bullring and gave up three goalless innings to block the win.
However, the real star of Friday’s Longhorns game was their attack, which gave Hansen plenty of running support. After a 1-0 lead in the fourth, Longhorn’s attack hung a four-pointer on the board to make it 4-1 for a single RBI Mitchell Daly. From then on, the Longhorns were everything, with the next eight runs coming home from home runs: Ivan Melendez in a two-run home run in the fourth, a Daly grand slam in the fourth and Doug Hodo in the seventh in a solo home run. 12-4.
Game 2: No. 22 Texas 8 Kansas 1
Saturday was another major outing for Lucas Gordon, who continues to deliver exactly what he was asked to do when he delivered the ball. Gordon had no trouble closing the Kansas lineup, allowing only one run of more than six innings while leaving only five hits and pulling out six to secure his sixth win of the season. Once again, the Longhorn Bulls would give three silences, leaving only two hits in the process.
In the attack, the Longhorns once again took the Jayhawks headline from the jump, with Eric Kennedy and Ivan Melendez launching back-to-back home runes, which tied Melendez with Kyle Russell at the 28-year-old he tied the most in a Texas history season. Skyler Messinger would add a single RBI in the first, giving Texas a 3-0 lead. Again, it would be all of Texas from there, as the Longhorns would add five more runs by the end of the game, including another solo home by Eric Kennedy, in the fourth, as Texas won the second game and in the series. achieving victory.
Lucas Gordon
Lucas Gordon
Ivan Melendez
Game 3: No. 22 Texas 11 Kansas 6
While the Longhorns gave them two solid starts to start the series, the final condemnations of the series reappeared on Saturday. Zane Morehouse, who has become the third Texas starter, would only last 3 1/3 innings, allowing him to score three runs. He was followed by Tristan Stevens, who lasted only 1 1/3 innings, with both races leading to a 5-0 lead by Longhorns.
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While the Bats started the first and second games on fire, they had the coldest ice for most of the final of the series, and couldn’t score until Texas made it two runs in the fifth, setting up a 5-2 Kansas run. However, all that would change in the seventh inning, when the Texas bats suddenly came to life. A single RBI by Murphy Stehly would reduce the Kansas lead to 5-3. Austin Todd would continue with a tough ride, loading the basics of former Skyler Messinger Jayhawk.
What came next couldn’t be better written, as Messinger would start a Grand Slam for the first time to put Texas ahead, 7-5. Aaron Nixon would go into the eighth inning and find himself with a jam-packed jam, leaving only one run and keeping the Texas 7-6 lead. The Longhorns would add four crucial assists in the eighth to go up 11-6, and would go after the Jayhawks ’victory and get the series cut.
Skyler Messinger
Skyler Messinger celebrates his inaugural Grand Slam.
What’s next for Texas?
After an exciting run from the Jayhawks to end the series sweep, the Longhorns will have a two-day break on Wednesday at 9 a.m. before the Big 12 starts against Oklahoma State. If they want to organize a region, Longhorns will have to get several victories in the Big 12 Tournament.
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