IU @ Texas, Game 3: IU 4 Texas 2, Final...

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1st Inning:

RHP Luke Sinnard will be on the mound for IU. Serruto is behind the plate and Cerny starts at 2B with Ellis the DH.

T1st:

Glasser singled as the lead off hitter. Both Jessee and Pyne K'd and Glasser stole 3rd.
Whalen grounded out for the 3rd out.

B1st:

Sinnard gets off to a good start by striking out the first two batters, but he then gives up a solo homer to the Longhorns top hitter, Porter Brown.
Sinnard gets 3rd out on another K to end the inning.

 

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2nd Inning:

T2nd:

Mathinson, Tibbetts, and Ellis go down in order on two GOs and a K.

B2nd:

Sinnard puts them down in order to end the inning.

 

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3rd Inning:

T3rd:

Cerny singled to LF. Ground outs by Serruto and Glasser moved Cerny to 3rd, and Jessee K'd for the 3rd out.

B3rd:

The No. 8 and 9 hitters both double to start the inning with runners on 2nd and 3rd bringing up the top of the order with no outs.

Sinnard gets a pop up to 1B for the first out.

A GO scores the runner from 3rd with the runner on 2nd taking 3rd and two outs with Brown back up.
Sinnard gets a flyout to end the inning with Texas up 2-0.

 

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4th Inning:

T4th:

The 3 thru 5 hitters are up and Pyne grounds out. Whalen reaches on an error and Mathison Ks with Whalen caught stealing.

B4th:

Sinnard puts them down in order.

 

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T5th:

IU goes down in order.

B5th:

Texas got a leadoff single but he was caught stealing and Sinnard got 2 K's to end the inning.

 

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6th Inning:

T6th:

IU strikes for four runs:

Serruto singles.

Glasser flied out and Serruto takes 2nd on a balk.

Jesse grounds out for the 2nd out
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Pyne singles up the middle to score Serruto.

Whalen singles to put runners on 1st and 2nd.

Texas goes to the bullpen and Mathison welcomes the new pitcher with a single scoring Pyne.

With runners on the corners and two outs, Texas goes to their bullpen again.

Tibbetts doubled to score both Whalen and Mathison.

Colopy dh's for Ellis and he grounds out to end the inning with IU getting four runs after two outs. We finally got some clutch hits in this series.

B6th:

With Hellman taking over for Sinnard, he got the leadoff man on a GO. The next batter reached on a throwing error and was caught stealing. Hellman gave up a two-out walk, and got the 3rd out when the runner was gunned down at 2nd by Serruto, and Serruto gunned down three base runners in this game.

 

[CaptainZigZag]

Evenly matched series, IU could have just as easily won 2 or all 3.
I’ve seldom seen baserunning as bad as I’ve seen this series.
Congrats Hoosiers!

 

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I was watching the IU/Iowa womens basketball game and kept an eye on this game and didn't provide any updates from the 7th inning on since there was no scoring.

It looks like against major competition that IU has to get warmed up by losing the first two games of the series before getting things together to salvage the Sunday game. We went 2-4 against Auburn and Texas.

IU got 4 runs on 8 hits to Texas' 2 runs on 6 hits. IU had one error to two errors on the Longhorns.

All of the hits for IU were singles except for the 2 RBI double by Tibbetts.

Sinnard had a good start for IU going 5 IP, 5 hits, 2 runs both earned, 7 Ks, and no BBs.

Hellman and Kraft combined to go 4 IP with Kraft pitching the last three innings. Combined, they allowed just one hit and no runs, and one BB (Hellman).

We got good starts from all three starters in the series. Kraft rebounded from a bad 5th inning yesterday to a great closing three innings today.

The pitching looks promising going forward and Mathison finally got a hit today and maybe that will end his slump at the plate.

 

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Here's the link to the box score:

Baseball vs Texas on 2/26/2023 - Box Score - Indiana University Athletics

The official box score of Baseball vs Texas on 2/26/2023

iuhoosiers.com

 

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Here's the link to the game recap.

Sunday Win Deep in the Heart of Texas - Indiana University Athletics

AUSTIN, Texas – For the second straight Sunday, sophomore starting pitcher Luke Sinnard tossed five strong innings and the Indiana baseball program u...

iuhoosiers.com

 

[TomEric4756]

Another split … better than a sweep … good to see the crooked number

0 walks 12 SO needs to improve