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Garrido picks up win No. 500 at Texas, Baseball defeats Texas State 5-3
04.08.2008 | Baseball
Garrido earned 929 wins at Cal State Fullerton and has 1,651 wins for his career. He owns a 500-242-1 mark as skipper of the Longhorns.
The win was highlighted by strong pitching performances from a pair of freshmen. Chance Ruffin (3-2) picked up the win for Texas pitching three hitless innings. He allowed just two base runners with one walk and one UT error. Fellow rookie Stayton Thomas followed with three innings of one-hit relief, striking out two Bobcats.
Brandon Belt picked up his second career save allowing just one unearned run in the ninth inning. Pat McCrory was also impressive in relief, allowing just one hit while striking out one in a scoreless seventh inning.
Texas (22-10) jumped out to a lead with two runs in the bottom of the third inning. With one out, David Hernandez singled up the middle and moved to second on a wild pitch. Michael Torres deposited a 3-1 pitch over the fence in leftfield, staking the Longhorns to a 2-0 lead.
The Horns added two more runs in the home half of the fifth. With one out, Torres singled through the right side and Tucker singled to centerfield to put runners at the corners. Jordan Danks plated Torres with a single down the rightfield line, inflating the cushion to 3-0. With runners on second and third following a stolen base by Danks, Russell Moldenhauer pushed Tucker across with a sacrifice fly to leftfield.
Texas added an insurance run in the sixth. Brandon Belt and Cameron Rupp hit back-to-back singles to lead off the inning and with one out, Hernandez singled up the middle to plate Belt, giving the Longhorns a 5-0 advantage.
The Bobcats shaved two runs off the lead in the eighth inning. Elliott Babcock laced a leadoff double down the rightfield line. With one out, Thomas Field hit a double in the same location to plate Babcock. Field moved to third on a groundout by Adam Witek and scored on a single through the left side by Laurn Randell.
Texas State (17-11) had a ninth-inning rally come up short. With one out, Lance Loftin doubled to the gap in right centerfield, moved to third on a passed ball and scored on wild pitch.
Torres went 2-for-4 and extended his hit streak to 19 games, the fourth-longest in UT annals. He logged one home run, two runs and two RBI. Belt went 2-for-2 with one walk, one run and one RBI. Hernandez and Rupp each went 2-for-4.
Loftin paced the Texas State offense, going 2-for-4 with one run scored.
Zach Boles (0-2) was saddled with the loss for Texas State. He allowed four runs on seven hits while striking out three over four innings.
Texas returns to action Friday commencing a three-game series in Columbia, Mo., against the Missouri Tigers. First pitch for the series opener against the Tigers is slated for 6:30 p.m.
