Yu's K's

This is really cool.  For a little analysis, checkout today's Newberg Report entitled "Twelve Things".

GO RANGERS.

Longest Baseball Game

In a game on May 31 that lasted an NCAA all-division-record 25 innings and went 7 hours and 3 minutes, the No. 5 Texas Longhorns toppled the Boston College Eagles 3-2 at the NCAA Austin Regional at UFCU Disch-Falk Field on Saturday evening.

The evening was highlighted by the relief performance of Austin Wood. The Longhorns left-hander entered the game with one out and a runner on second base in the seventh inning and proceeded to pitch 12.1 innings before yielding a hit.

For the game, Wood pitched 13.0 scoreless innings, scattering two hits and four walks while striking out a career-high 14. He logged 169 pitches on the evening.


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Texas Longhorns. 020 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 1 - 3 20 3
BC Eagles........... 000 101 000 000 000 000 000 000 0 - 2 8 0
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E - Loy, B. 2(8); Keyes, K.(2). LOB - UT 24; BC 12. 2B - Clark, P. 3(13);
Keyes, K.(12); Anston, R(22). HR - Keyes, K.(5). HBP - Moldenhauer;
Lawrence, A. SH - Belt, B.(8); Loy, B. 2(23); Hernandez, D 2(6); Hamlet,
M(12). SF - Sanchez, T(3). SB - Tucker, T.(12); Belt, B. 2(14).

Texas Longhorns IP H R ER BB SO AB BF NP ERA
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Ruffin, Chance...... 6.1 5 2 2 1 2 21 24 73 2.95
Wood, Austin........ 13.0 2 0 0 4 14 41 46 169 2.03
Dicharry, Austin.... 5.2 1 0 0 1 4 18 19 65 2.40

A few days after history was made, the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y. made a phone call to Longhorns equipment manager, Vinny Alcazar, inquiring for some artifacts from the game. Austin Wood, who threw 169 pitches over 13.0 innings, will donate his size-7 gray cap with the orange bill he wore during the game.


Texas will play TCU in a 3-game series in the Super Regional in Austin beginning June 6.

Take Me Out to the Ballpark

Since interest in the Texas Rangers (baseball team, not law enforcement agency) has picked up as a result of recent excellent play, I thought I'd plug this website: http://www.newbergreport.com/, which is all about the Rangers and system farm teams. The site is authored by a friend of mine, Jamey Newberg, who knows more about baseball and the Rangers than anyone should. (He also know lots and lots about other sports, as well.) Check it out. And while I'm at it, check out the website of another friend of mine, Talmage Boston (http://www.talmageboston.com/) . Talmage is a genuine baseball historian and lover of the game. His love of the game is nowhere more apparent than in his most recent book and his appreciation of the history of the game is made evident in his first book, which is about baseball in 1939. I found it fascinating. Both sites are worth a look.