The University of Texas at Austin Athletics
A stitch in time: This month in Texas Baseball -- April
04.03.2006 | Baseball
April 3, 1970: James Street pitches the school's sixth recorded no-hitter and the second of his career as he leads the Longhorns to a 4-0 win over Texas Tech in Lubbock, Texas. Notably, Street's complete-game, seven-inning effort against the Red Raiders was also the first perfect game in UT history.
April 4, 2000: With a 4-2 win against McNeese State, head coach Augie Garrido passes Miami's Ron Fraser for third on the all-time NCAA Division I coaching wins list with 1,268 career victories. Of note, three years later in 2003, Garrido surpassed his UT predecessor Cliff Gustafson for the all-time NCAA career victory mark, a total to which he now adds with each and every Longhorns triumph.
April 5, 1977: 10,000 spectators come to watch an exhibition game between the Longhorns and Texas Rangers at Disch-Falk Field, marking the largest crowd to ever attend a UT baseball game.
April 7, 1973: Richard Wortham tosses UT's 10th recorded no-hitter while striking out 10 during a 9-0 victory over Texas Tech at Clark Field in Austin.
April 8, 1967: Kelly Scott, Pat Brown, Bob Snoddy and James Scheschuk set a UT record by hitting four consecutive home runs in the seventh inning of an 11-7 road victory over the Baylor Bears.
April 9, 2004: The Longhorns tie a team record for the longest game (innings) in program history with a 20-inning, 10-6 victory over Kansas State in Manhattan, Kansas. Of note, Texas also matched another school record in that contest by tallying 72 at bats.
April 16, 2005: Adrian Alaniz tosses UT's 19th recorded no-hitter and the first of his career in a 4-0 victory against Oklahoma. Additionally, Alaniz walked just one batter and struck out six in the most recent no-hitter thrown at Disch-Falk Field.
April 19, 1975: The Longhorns outscore TCU by a margin of 32-3 in a doubleheader sweep of the Horned Frogs on the day that marked the dedication of Disch-Falk Field.
April 21, 1897: The University of Texas baseball team records its first-ever victory against a collegiate opponent with a 13-6 win over Add Ran (now TCU).
April 22-23, 1988: 21,872 fans flock to Disch-Falk Field to watch the Longhorns sweep a three-game series from Texas A&M. The combined attendance sets the all-time mark for a three-game series at the Longhorns home park since 1975.
April 25, 1998: Texas ties an individual game school record with six home runs at Missouri in a 12-10 win over the Tigers.
April 27, 1974: The Longhorns defeat Texas A&M by a score of 4-3 in the last game ever played at Clark Field.
April 28, 1979: A doubleheader sweep of Texas Tech caps the first and only undefeated month of April in UT's modern era (since 1965) as the 1979 Longhorns finished April with a record of 12-0 and notched the first of 10 consecutive Southwest Conference titles for the program from 1979-1988.
April 29, 1955: Tommy Jungman, who fanned six over nine innings, tallies the school's fourth recorded no-hitter while leading UT to an 8-0 victory over Rice at Clark Field in Austin.
April 30, 2002: Freshman J.D. Reininger drives in a career-best seven runs while setting a school record for total bases with 13 as he connects on three home runs against TCU at the Dell Diamond in Round Rock, Texas, during a 14-8 Horns' victory. Additionally, his three home runs tied the school's single-game record for round-trippers by one player as he became only the fifth Longhorn in history and the first since Brett Loeffler against Kansas on April 22, 1997, to accomplish such a feat.
