Top Fifth: Single. Strike out. Single. Double play ends threat.

Texas down 4-2 to OK State in the forth. Could lose seven straight.

B5 (following the audio feed):

Teykl walks on 3-2 pitch.

Taylor says he's hit by 1-1 pitch ... but ump doesn't allow it, despite "high ricochet" (according to JP) ... called a swing/foul. Foul ... then 3rd strike tipped into catcher's mitt.

Lewis batting for Gray: Walks on a 3-1 pitch, low. Two on, one out.

Kopycinski: First pitch hit off light tower. Low. Low-inside. Ball ... 3-1 count. Walk! Bases loaded for Chandler!

(JP says MT pitcher Foriest is usually a late-inning, short-term reliever ... except for one 5-inning relief appearance.)

Chandler: Second-pitch 6-4-3 DP ends the inning without the Owls scoring any runs. Grrr.

7-0, Rice, after 5.

Bottom Fifth:

Connor: Nine pitch walk.
Kirby: Strike out swinging.
Lewis (for Gray): five pitch walk.
Hunter: five pitch walk. Bases loaded one out.
Ryan: ground into double play.

T6: "Stephens has been stifling."

Delgado: Foul, foul tip, Low-away "he wasted that one" (cf ricefootballnet's post in the Game 2 thread), 5-3 groundout.
Jarreau: Second-pitch lineout to Warren.
Jebavy: First-pitch 6-3 groundout.

7-0, Rice ... heading to B6.

Top sixth: Ground out to third. Fly out to right. Ground out to short.

B6: Submarining slider pitcher Stansberry in to pitch for MT:

Stainback: 6-3 groundout.
Byrd: 2-2 pitch ... single!
Reeves: Call strike ("floats over"), foul, high chopper off the plate/pitcher fields it behind the mound; out (1-3); Byrd advanced to 2nd.
Warren skies out to right-center.

7-0, Rice, after 6.

Bottom sixth: New pitcher for MTSU. Side arm.

Ford: ground out to short.
Byrd: single.
JC: ground out to short. Byrd to second.
Warren: fly out to center.

Between innings, a child is trying to slide an Oreo from his forehead to his mouth. Sounds difficult.

T7: Ditman in to pitch. Stephens had 8 Ks, no walks ... 3 hits and no runs allowed. WTG, Jordan!

Allen: Wiffs on 1-2 pitch.
Adkins: First-pitch lineout to Chandler in center.
Ingold: 0-1 pitch smashed to Stainback, knocks him down. Gets up and makes the 4-3 putout.

7-0, Rice ... heading to B7.

Now 8-2 OSU over UT. Still bottom of forth.

(04-05-2015 02:51 PM)temchugh Wrote:  Now 8-2 OSU over UT. Still bottom of forth.

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Three up, three down for Ditman in Top of Seventh.

B7: Teykl: First-pitch single, to left-center! The Owls' 10th hit of the game!
Taylor "hits a tailor-make double-play ball" ... 4-6-3. Grrr.
Lewis: first pitch 6-3. Grrr.

"That was a fast inning, if I've ever seen one!"

7-0, Rice, after 7.

Bottom of Seventh:

Connor: Single to CF.
Kirby: grounds into double play.
Lewis: ground out to short.

T8:

Bryant: 1-1 pitch 5-3 groundout.
Norrell: Two fouls, low, foul, "Called strike three!"
Dupree: Ball, Wiff, "Wave and a miss", low, "grounded weakly foul to the right," "Wave and a miss!"

7-0, Rice ... heading to B8.

B8: Stansberry still pitching. JP delighted that Oreos have been brought to the press box.

Kopycinski: First pitch 4-3 groundout.

Chandler: Ball low, rolled to 2nd ... 4-3.

Stainback: low & away, "raps one in the air into left-center ... a two-out double."

Byrd: 1-1 pitch: "down and away ... skips back to the backstop; Stainback advances to third." Low. 3-1: Fouled back. 3-2: Fouled back. 3-2: "Lofts it back foul." 3-2: Outside! "Runners at the corners for Reeves."

Reeves: 1-2: "Hard ground ball ... down the left-field line!" Double. Stainback scores; Byrd to 3rd. 8-0, Rice.

Warren: First-pitch single ... 2 RBI .. Run-rule! Owls win, 10-zip!

Ten run rule robs Ditman of a save?

Now that's how you end an Easter weekend series! Just how Jesus would've wanted it!! Great job, fellas!! 3-1 week against some dang good opponents. Hootie-Hoo!!

(04-05-2015 12:50 PM)Da.Owl Wrote:  'Tis a dreary day at The Reck. Weather problematic but to walk up the steps and see Rice in third place is just not right.

Bad news is we're still in third place.
Good news is the two teams ahead of us are now each a half-game behind us :)

Rice (11-4) is now solidly in 3rd place in the C-USA standings, just behind the 9-3 Middle Tennessee and Florida Atlantic. (UTSA is 4th at 7-5; USM is 6-5 and FIU, ODU & WKU are tied at 6-6.)

Monday is WG's birthday. JP promises something special on the radio show.
Tuesday vs A&M (6:35 @Blue Bell/College Station)
Next weekend @UAB.

Go Owls!!