Kansas drops second in a row to Texas Tech
by James Quinn on Apr 19, 2009 12:11 AM CDT
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Last week the news was all over the place. This Kansas team was solid. The Jayhawk pitching staff was among the best in the Big-12. KU was ready to assume its place in the upper half of the Big-12. I guess the memo never got to Lubbock.
For the second straight day the Red Raiders punished Kansas starting pitching. On Friday Shaeffer Hall had perhaps his worst outing as a collegiate pitcher. Twenty-four hours later, for the first time all season T.J. Walz couldn’t find the strike zone and slogged through a slow painful beating. Walz threw 90 pitches, only 49 of which hit the strike zone. After walking three of the first seven batters he faced Walz was compelled to work the heart of the plate to control his pitch count and stop handing out the free passes. T.J. managed to buy seven more outs at the cost of three singles, two doubles and a homerun. By the time he was taken off the mound KU was in a 6-0 hole from which they never could quite dig out.
Brett Bollman pitched extremely well and muzzled the TTU attack over the final five innings. The Kansas bats warmed up and the Hawks slowly ate into the Red Raider lead. Buck Afenir opened the Kansas scoring by hitting a two run homer in the 6th inning, his fifth long-ball of the year. Preston Land hit his second homerun of the weekend the following inning to narrow the TTU lead to 7-3. The Jayhawks mounted a final rally in the ninth inning. Robby Price hit a two out double to cut the lead down to two before Chad Bettis got Brian Heere to ground into the 27th out. The final score rested at 7-5.
Kansas fell to 24-14 and 7-7 in the Big-12. Texas Tech improved to 18-23 and 9-8. The two teams meet for the final game Sunday at 1PM. Kansas will by trying to avoid being swept. If Kansas gets out of Lubbock with one win in three games the weekend will feel like a nasty bump in the road. A sweep will feel a lot more like an actual road block.
Link to KU recap and box score after the jump.
Apr 18, 2009 at Lubbock, TX (Dan Law Field)
Kansas 5 (24-14,7-7 Big 12) |
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| Player | ab | r | h | rbi | bb | so | po | a | lob | |
| Narodowski, David ss | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | |
| Price, Robby 2b | 3 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | |
| Heere, Brian rf | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | |
| Afenir, Buck c | 4 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 0 | |
| Thompson, Tony 3b | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | |
| Lytle, Casey lf | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Waters, Jimmy dh | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
| Land, Preston 1b | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 0 | |
| Brunansky, Jason cf | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | |
| Walz, T.J. p | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | |
| Bollman, Brett p | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| Totals | 32 | 5 | 9 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 24 | 12 | 7 | |
Texas Tech 7 (18-23,9-8 Big 12) |
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| Player | ab | r | h | rbi | bb | so | po | a | lob | |
| Rueda, Willie 2b | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 0 | |
| Reed, Michael lf | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| Kenworthy, Joey ss | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | |
| Richburg, Chris 1b | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 1 | 1 | |
| LeJeune, Scott dh | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Ashby, Taylor cf | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | |
| Berry, Justin 3b | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | |
| Totten, Garrett rf | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Brown, Logan rf | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Mayo, Jeremy c | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 0 | |
| Ramos, AJ p | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | |
| Large, Cory p | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Monreal, Kellen 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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Totals | 29 | 7 | 8 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 27 | 13 | 6 | |
Score by Innings R H E ------------------------------------------- Kansas.............. 000 002 102 - 5 9 2 Texas Tech.......... 201 400 00X - 7 8 1 ------------------------------------------- |
| E - Thompson, T.; Walz, T.(2); Mayo(10). DP - Texas Tech 3. LOB - Kansas 7; Texas Tech 6. 2B - Price, Ro. 2(7); LeJeune(8); Ashby(13); Mayo(7). HR - Afenir, B.(5); Land, P.(2); Richburg(11). HBP - Narodowski; Rueda; Kenworthy. SH - Rueda(6); Reed(4). CS - Brunansky(1); Ashby(5). Reached on CI - Waters, J.. |
| Kansas | ip | h | r | er | bb | so | wp | bk | hbp | ibb | ab | bf | fo | go | np |
| Walz, T.J. L,4-1 | 3.1 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 20 | 3 | 4 | 90 |
| Bollman, Brett | 4.2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 14 | 17 | 6 | 5 | 61 |
| Texas Tech | ip | h | r | er | bb | so | wp | bk | hbp | ibb | ab | bf | fo | go | np |
| Ramos, AJ W,4-3 | 5.0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 20 | 3 | 5 | 83 |
| Large, Cory | 0.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 8 |
| Monreal, Kellen | 0.0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 9 |
| Head, Louis | 1.1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 22 |
| Bettis, Chad | 2.1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 30 |
| Win - Ramos (4-3). Loss - Walz, T. (4-1). Save - None. HBP - by Bollman, B. (Kenworthy); by Bollman, B. (Rueda); by Bettis (Narodowski). BK - Bollman, B.(1). CI - Mayo. Pitches/strikes: Walz, T. 90/49; Bollman, B. 61/38; Ramos 83/48; Large 8/5; Monreal 9/3; Head 22/15; Bettis 30/18.
Umpires - HP: Ken McQueen 1B: Doyle Sooter 3B: Doug Williams |
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Sunday: Kansas 9 - TTU 0 (3rd)
Kansas is blowing TTU out so far in the final game of the series. It looks like the Hawks will leave Lubbock with at least one win.
www.rockchalktalk.com for pretty good KU baseball coverage
Kansas 10 - TTU 0 (4th)
Tony Thompson hit his 11th homerun in the top of the 4th. He now has 11 on the year. KU sophomore record is 14 by Eric Morrison.
www.rockchalktalk.com for pretty good KU baseball coverage
Kansas 10 - TTU 1 (end 5)
Lee Ridenhour ran into some trouble in the 5th. He loaded the bases with no outs. He gave up a sac fly to bring in the first TTU run. The next batter, Scott LeJeune, lined a ball to Robby Price at second. Price snagged the ball and doubled up the runner on 2nd baseman.
www.rockchalktalk.com for pretty good KU baseball coverage
Kansas 11 - TTU 1 (6th)
Tony Thompson hit another homerun in the top of the 6th. He now has 12 on the year. The TTU annoucers just called Tony the all-conference 3rd baseman.
www.rockchalktalk.com for pretty good KU baseball coverage
Kansas 15 - TTU 1 (7th)
Lee Ridenhour 6 innings, 8 hits, 1 run, 3/1 BB/K.
Travis Blankenship is in to pitch the final inning. To me this indicates that Smyth is still not ready to pitch.
www.rockchalktalk.com for pretty good KU baseball coverage
Kansas 15 - Texas Tech 6 (after 7)
Blankenship had trouble finishing out the game. He gave up four singles and only got one out. Bochy hit the first batter he faced which drove in a run and gave up two more hits to allow TTU to reduce the lead below ten runs. So, we are going to play all 9 innings after all.
www.rockchalktalk.com for pretty good KU baseball coverage
Kansas 15 - Texas Tech 6 FINAL
Nice comeback win for the Jayhawks. KU improves to 25-14 and 8-7. I think this will put the Jayhawks in a three way tie for 4th place in the conference. Texas Tech falls to 9-9 in conference play.
www.rockchalktalk.com for pretty good KU baseball coverage
JQ's faith restored
Wow, TT pitchers hands the game away in the first and they never look back. Good for babyhawks.
Tony Thompson will break Ryno Price home run record and Travis Metcalf single season mark?
Scrappy club for sure. Can’t believe Huskers and OSU are so bad this year. Hasn’t been like that at all in last 7 years. They look like they will be watching the tournament from the TV and OKC will be without them.
Tony Thompson
I think he will break EMo’s sophomore home run record. He still has a way to go to break Metcalf’s record but I started thinking about that last week. He’d have to stick around for a few more years to challenge Ryno’s all-time mark.
I thought NU might be bad last year, and then they finished 3rd in the conference. This year I expected them to be mid-pack, and they already are assured of a losing Big-12 record. Clearly my predictions can’t be trusted.
www.rockchalktalk.com for pretty good KU baseball coverage
Woulda been great to take 2/3...
but at least they salvaged the finale to not fall off too far.
Taking 1 of 3 on the road is holding steady.
At least that is what I’ll tell myself today.
www.rockchalktalk.com for pretty good KU baseball coverage
Farnsworth, that guy is taking a slow walk through hell this month.
Everyone wants to personally fire him. I haven’t seen this much ire directed at a ball player in a while. I wouldn’t be cut out to be a late inning reliever. My skin is too thin.
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Don't worry about Farnsy JQ.
He has 9.25 million dollars to comfort himself. The sad thing is Dayton Moore giving him that much money, and Trey Hillman giving him repeated chances to blow games. Nice to see the hawks get a little revenge for the last couple days.
by hunter s. royal on Apr 19, 2009 10:05 PM CDT up reply actions
Nice thing about baseball
Win or lose, there is another game tomorrow to take away the pain of a loss. Redemption is a sweet thing but you are right, what is Hillman thinking there. Go with your ace who hasn’t pitched. These salaries have gotten ridiculous. How is a guy like that worth that much cash?
Give some to the MiLB players who barely make a hundred bucks a week.
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