Texas Tech outslugs Kansas 15-10. Shaeffer Hall takes a rare beating.
by James Quinn on Apr 18, 2009 4:04 AM CDT
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Texas Tech reached season highs in runs (15) and hits (21) last night while beating Kansas 15-10. KU ace Shaeffer Hall (3-3) lasted only 19 batters before exiting with no outs in the third trailing 8-6. To those 19 batters Hall gave up 8 singles, 3 doubles, 2 homeruns and recorded 6 outs – easily the worst outing in his KU career. Probably as much credit needs to be extended to the Red Raiders as blame towards Hall as Texas Tech continued to score freely on the Jayhawk's bullpen. Kevin Burk gave up three runs in as many innings and Travis Blankenship gave up three more in only two innings of work. It looks like KU just caught the Raiders on the wrong night.
Despite Tech’s torrid work at the plate Kansas managed to stay in this game until the bottom of the 6th inning. Preston Land’s two run homerun in the top of the sixth, his first long-ball of the year, cut the Tech lead to 9-8. The Raiders responded to the KU challenge by sending 10 men to the plate and scoring six runs in the bottom of the frame to put the game out of reach.
The loss wasted a nice offensive day for the Jayhawks. Production came from expected and unexpected sources. Tony Thompson hit his 10th homerun of the year and a double while driving in three. Thompson now has 47 RBIs on the year. Buck Afenir went 2-4 with two RBIs. Two players who have been quiet lately spoke up at the plate yesterday. Jimmy Waters went 3-5 with a double and an RBI. Preston Land hit a homerun and drove in a pair. Hopefully last night signaled an end to their slumps.
KU fell to 24-13 and 7-6 in the conference. Texas Tech improved to 17-23 and 8-8. The two teams play Saturday at 5PM. The game can be listened to on KLWN. If you do not mind hearing the TTU call you can watch the game here.
As much as last night's loss hurts Jayhawk nation, the pain in Manhattan must be exponentially worse tonight. Wildcat ace A.J. Morris took at 2-0 lead into the ninth against visiting Missouri. The Tigers rallied to score 4 runs in the final frame on back to back homeruns and won 4-3. K-State is putting together perhaps their best baseball season ever this year. Last nights loss must burn. Kyle Gibson (6-3) picked up a complete game victory. KU will be facing both these teams soon.
After the jump: Links to media chatter about the team & last night's KU recap and box score.
Martin Manley at the Kansas City.com sports blog "Upon Further Review," (which is certainly a cut above most sports blogs) sent some love toward team this week. Here is a link to the full story and a quote below:
KU’s record is 24-12. But, as I mentioned last week, that’s misleading low. Yes, it easily could be much better than that. Kansas has played over half their 36 games against teams that were ranked. KU is 9-10 in those 19 games, but only 9 of them were at home and 10 on the road. Against other competition, the Jayhawks are 15-2 including winning their last 14 against unranked squads.
I think the LJ World too often overlooks KU baseball. I hope this is more an issue of space than perceived community interest. Anyway, the hotter the Hawks play the more space they get. Last week Dugan Arnett went with the title "Kansas Baseball Silencing Doubters." Give the story a click. It is not bad, and it will let the LJ folks know the coverage is appreciated.
The Daily Kansan publishes four or five stories a week about the team and Tim Dwyer and Josh Bowe are maintaining a blog for spill-over and live game coverage. While I think the UDK coverage is a step below where it was last year when Shawn Shroyer was on the beat Dwyer and Bowe do a good job bringing out the personality of the team. I liked this quote from Jason Brunansky regarding his homerun at Creighton, "I wouldn't classify myself as a power-hitter. Home runs are accidents. That was an accident." (Incidently, if anyone knows how to reach Shroyer I would be happy if they passed that information on to me.)
Apr 17, 2009 at Lubbock, TX (Dan Law Field)
Kansas 10 (24-13,7-6 Big 12) |
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| Player | ab | r | h | rbi | bb | so | po | a | lob | |
| Narodowski, David ss | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 0 | |
| Price, Robby 2b | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 1 | |
| Heere, Brian rf | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| Afenir, Buck c | 4 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 2 | |
| Thompson, Tony 3b | 5 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | |
| Lytle, Casey lf | 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| Waters, Jimmy dh | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Land, Preston 1b | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 3 | |
| Brunansky, Jason cf | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 2 | |
| Hall, Shaeffer p | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| Burk, Kevin p | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| Blankenship, Travis p | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Murray, Colton p | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Totals | 40 | 10 | 13 | 10 | 5 | 8 | 24 | 10 | 8 | |
Texas Tech 15 (17-23,8-8 Big 12) |
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| Player | ab | r | h | rbi | bb | so | po | a | lob | |
| Rueda, Willie 2b | 6 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Kenworthy, Joey ss | 5 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 0 | |
| Richburg, Chris 1b | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | |
| Ashby, Taylor cf | 5 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | |
| Mayo, Jeremy c | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 1 | 4 | |
| LeJeune, Scott dh | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | |
| Berry, Justin 3b | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Reed, Michael lf | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Totten, Garrett rf | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| Brown, Logan rf | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Cloud, Brian p | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| Kilcrease, Robert p | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Head, Louis p | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Bettis, Chad p | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Totals | 41 | 15 | 21 | 15 | 5 | 3 | 27 | 9 | 11 | |
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| E - Narodowski(11); Kenworthy(14). DP - Kansas 1. LOB - Kansas 8; Texas Tech 11. 2B - Heere, B.(7); Thompson, T.(14); Waters, J.(3); Rueda(4); Richburg(7); LeJeune 2(7); Reed(6). HR - Thompson, T.(10); Land, P.(1); Kenworthy(2); Richburg(10). SH - Kenworthy(10); Totten(1). SF - Ashby(2); Reed(3). SB - Lytle, C.(6). CS - Price, Ro.(1). |
| Kansas | ip | h | r | er | bb | so | wp | bk | hbp | ibb | ab | bf | fo | go | np |
| Hall, Shaeffer L,3-3 | 2.0 | 13 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 19 | 2 | 3 | 60 |
| Burk, Kevin | 3.0 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 15 | 4 | 4 | 56 |
| Blankenship, Travis | 2.0 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 12 | 3 | 2 | 46 |
| Murray, Colton | 1.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 14 |
| Texas Tech | ip | h | r | er | bb | so | wp | bk | hbp | ibb | ab | bf | fo | go | np |
| Cloud, Brian | 4.0 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 20 | 5 | 2 | 71 |
| Kilcrease, Robert W,3-0 | 2.0 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 41 |
| Head, Louis | 0.2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 11 |
| Bettis, Chad | 2.1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 29 |
| Win - Kilcrease (3-0). Loss - Hall, S. (3-3). Save - None. WP - Blankenship(1). PB - Mayo(5). Pitches/strikes: Hall, S. 60/41; Burk, K. 56/32; Blankenship 46/31; Murray, C. 14/10; Cloud 71/43; Kilcrease 41/24; Head 11/7; Bettis 29/19.
Umpires - HP: Doug Williams 1B: Ken McQueen 3B: Doyle Sooter |
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Live Video Feed.
It is working again today. The picture is small, and the audio is of course TTU friendly, but otherwise all looks good.
Earlier scores:
Baylor 3 @ Oklahoma State 4 FINAL – Series now tied 1-1. Tyler Lyons – 7 innings, 7 hits, 3 runs, 3/5 BB/K.
Oklahoma 3 @ Texas 7 FINAL – Game 1 of double header. UT scores 5 in 2nd inning. Chance Ruffin 6.1 innings, 7 hits, 3 runs, 0/10 BB/K.
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Kansas 0 - TTU 0 (1st)
KU threated in the first. A.J. Ramos walked Price and Heere but got out of the inning.
Another early score:
Missouri 11 @ Kansas State 6 FINAL - Missouri up 2-0 in series. Greg Folgia (MU LF) 2 HR, 5 RBIs. MU used 8 pitchers.
This must be killing K-Staters.
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Kansas 0 - TTU 2 (2nd)
Sloppy first inning by KU. Thompson was unable to catch a high infield pop pushed around by the wind. T.J. Walz committed a throwing error on a pick off attempt. Walz walks back to back batters with two outs to load the bases. Ashby two-run single over Narodowski’s head. Preston Land dropped a pop up in foul territory (E3). The inning ended with Walz picking Ashby off first base.
All very ugly baseball. I guess the wind will be a big issue today.
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Kansas 0 - TTU 5 (4th)
T.J. Walz struggled all day. He is coming out trailing 5-0 one out into the 4th inning. T.J. walked 4 batters today after only issuing 12 free passes in his first 8 starts. Brett Bollman to pitch in releif. Runner at first base.
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Kansas 0 - TTU 7 (after 4)
Something bad is happening in Lubbock this weekend.
I’d love to see a big rally, but that score is getting pretty out of hand. The KU bullpen is going to log a lot of innings today again.
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Kansas 2 - TTU 7 (6th)
Buck Afenir hit is 5th homerun. 2 RBIs. Hawks finally on the scoreboard. A.J. Ramos is out of the game now. Hopefully KU will get more done against the Tech bullpen.
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KU 3 - TTU 7 (7th)
Preston Land hit a solo homerun to lead off the 7th. His second homerun in as many days, after going the first 36 games without a homer. I love this. If Preston rediscovers his power stroke it will do wonders for the KU line-up. Also Preston is one of the more popular players on the team and I am sure everyone wants to see him finish out his senior year on a positive note.
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Pitching
Our pitching is getting very thin. By my count we have only 8 healthy pitchers right now. We started the season with a lot of pitchers on the roster but really only 12 who could physically pitch. Having to use Bollman on 3 days rest is an indication of how depleted we are. we would be in a heap of trouble if one of our weekend starters went down. Maybe I am just feeling pessimistic based on how these first two games went and are going.
Since Price did not use Selik,
indicates he is not able to pitch right now. I’ll send him a question about this when I send over the questions tomorrow.
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Bollman
Bollman pitched very well against Creighton and today over 4.2 innings only allowed one hit and one run with no walks and 3 Ks. Thats a good line by any standards and he has shut down the Tech bats which no one else has been able to do. Good Job!!!
Kansas 5 - TTU 7 FINAL
KU rallied to score two in the top of the ninth off Bettis. The game ended with Heere grounding out and Price at 2nd base.
KU falls to 24-14 and 7-7. TTU moves ahead of KU in the Big-12 at 9-8. The Raiders really play tough in the conference.
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Must win tomorrow against Tech
If we can win one tomorrow and take two out of three from the Huskers at home that would put us at 10-8 and I would feel pretty good with that record. At this point i feel that Texas is probably going to take the conference and everyone else will be bundled up with Nebraska trailing somewhere in the distance.
Road misery.
I’ve always heard the path to sucess in the Big-12 is to not get swept on the road and take care of business at home. So far KU is doing that. These two loses still hurt. I felt pretty good about the Jayhawks’ chances of taking two at Lubbock.
Big-12 Baseball is damn good. The conference just beats teams down. All 10 members are in the top third of the national RPI rankings. There just is no game when a team can let their guard down. I keep having to relearn this lesson the hard way every year.
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We have to win tomorrow.
I don’t think that we can afford a sweep.
At least, that’s my own personal take.
If we win tomorrow, though, that is really sweet. We should be able to sweep Nebraska (right?), and we’d be right back in action.
The key will be our games against Missouri and K-State. Really, we should win both series, but we may not.
I just don't know.
Every time I think I have a feel for where the team is vis-a-vis the rest of the conference I am totally blindsided the next weekend. I think I am just going to stick to thinking about the games one at a time for a bit. I don’t know what to think about tomorrow’s game yet, much less what the Hawks can be expected to do with Nebraska next weekend.
But we are definitely together on how much a sweep in Lubbock would suck. I didn’t see this pitching collapse coming at all.
It’s crazy but this week Tech fans are talking about taking the Big-12 regular season title. And I am not convinced they are fully insane in holding on to this dream. And three weeks ago I had mentally marked TTU as unlikely to even make the Big-12 tournament. It’s an interesting season.
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by James Quinn on Apr 18, 2009 10:25 PM CDT up reply actions
Is the team playing a little scared now?
Remnants of years past, seems like the last two games. confidence not there for sure. TTech is on a mission and must get back in the race. I dont know if the frosh Lee has it in him tomorrow on the mound, the way the Tech bats have been swinging. Gotta give it to the baby hawks for scoring 15 runs in the last two games. How about Mizzou taking to KState the last two days? Things are definitely getting interesting. No real leaders in the big 12….KU drops out of top 25 this weekend, and follows OSU’s exit of last week. Where’s that swagger I been reading about?
Swagger, I was just thinking about that word earlier.
I guess you gotta be carefully about your word choice. What you say one week might seem out of place the next. But it felt nice to swagger for a few days at least.
I have a lot of faith in Ridenhour already. I hope he does well tomorrow. I guess we’ll see soon enough. Something evil has happened to KU starters in Lubbock. I hope Lee is immune. And Tech has to cool off sooner or later. They just are not this good an offensive team, are they?
As rough as this weekend has been for KU, I think it has been many times worse for K-State. To lose, at home, to a hated rival. At least KU is losing on the road to a team that doesn’t stir up the same emotions as Missouri. Oklahoma has taken it on the chin in Austin as well. I saw a lot of Sooner fans swaggering on the internet the last couple weeks. Eventually the game makes us all humble.
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by James Quinn on Apr 18, 2009 11:18 PM CDT up reply actions
Ridenhour
Lee didn’t seem to have his best stuff Sunday. He only struck out one of the 27 batters he faced and gave up eight singles and three walks. Still he got the job done and gave the team six effective innings.
This was Ridenhour’s first conference victory.
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Hi Up,
I’ll pass this one along to Coach Price tomorrow and hopefully we’ll have an update on Monday or Tuesday. I thought Smyth would be available this weekend but I suspect he would have used him if he really was ready for action again. We’ll see.
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by James Quinn on Apr 18, 2009 11:08 PM CDT up reply actions
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