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Baseball suffers first loss of the season
03.07.2009 | Baseball
March 7, 2009
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STANFORD, Calif. -- The Texas Longhorns had their 11-game win streak snapped with a 7-1 loss to the Stanford Cardinal in collegiate baseball action Saturday afternoon at the Sunken Diamond.
Jordan Pries (2-0), who earned a late starting nod for the Cardinal, silenced the Longhorns' bats for seven innings as Stanford mounted a 4-0 lead. Pries picked up the win, scattering three hits and two walks while striking out four over 7.1 innings. He went unscathed until Tim Maitland pierced the right side of the Stanford infield with a pinch-hit single off reliever Drew Storen to plate Jordan Etier with one out in the eighth inning.
Texas starter Brandon Workman (2-1) had worked 20 consecutive scoreless innings to start the season before yielding a run in the fifth. Workman allowed two runs, one earned, on six hits and one walk while striking out five over 5.2 innings in the losing effort.
Stanford (3-7) broke the scoring seal in the fifth inning. With one out, Wande Olabisi hit a double down the leftfield line. Olabisi moved to third when UT centerfielder Connor Rowe was forced to hit the grass in a diving catch of a Colin Walsh fly out and scored on a wild pitch.
The Cardinal tacked on three more runs in the sixth inning. Jonathan Kaskow hit a lead-off home run over the fence in rightfield. With two outs, Mike Garza reached on a throwing error by Longhorns' shortstop David Hernandez. Jeff Whitlow pinch-ran for Garza and stole second base. Olabisi walked, forcing Workman to leave the game. Walsh singled off reliever Keith Shinaberry to plate Whitlow and put runners at the corners. Jones capped off the rally with a lined shot off Shinaberry's glove to drive in Olabisi for the 4-0 lead.
Texas (11-1) scored its lone run in the eighth inning. With one out, Etier singled to rightfield. Storen relieved Pries and gave up a pinch-hit single to Michael Torres to put runners at the corners. Maitland delivered an RBI single, but Storen got Brandon Belt and Russell Moldenhauer to each fly out to end the inning.
The Cardinal used a pair of home runs to leftfield to tack on three runs in the eighth. Whitlow hit a solo shot and Jones hit a two-run job.
Texas and Stanford wrap up the three-game series with a 3 p.m. Central start on Sunday.
