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Baseball records 6-1 win over UTPA
04.16.2013 | Baseball
April 16, 2013
AUSTIN, Texas - Junior first baseman Ty Marlow went 2-for-3 with a double and two RBI Tuesday as the Texas Longhorns defeated the UTPA Broncs, 6-1, in a non-conference game at UFCU Disch-Falk Field. The Longhorns (20-15) took advantage of 12 walks allowed by UTPA pitchers while posting 10 hits in the game.
Junior pitcher Josh Urban (1-0), who missed most of last season with an injury, recorded the first win of his career at Texas with 4 2/3 innings. He allowed just one hit on four hits with no walks and three strikeouts. Matt Daniels (0-3) suffered the loss for UTPA with one run on three hits and four walks in two innings. Corey Knebel threw two perfect innings to close out the win for the Longhorns.
Ty Marlow was 2-for-3 including two RBI and one run scored. Marlow's two RBI included a single to the left side allowing C.J Hinojosa to score in the fourth inning and a double into left bringing Collin Shaw in the eighth.
Mark Payton was 2-for-4, including one RBI with a single to right field to bring Weston Hall home and allowing Texas to jump on the board early in the first inning.
In the bottom of the third, Texas loaded the bases against the Broncs (16-16). UTPA pitcher Colby McCasland walked Brooks Marlow to bring Shaw home, giving Texas their second run of the night. Kyle Tokunaga then walked Ben Johnson to bring in Jacob Felts and was called for a balk as another run scored to make it 4-0 for Texas.
UTPA scores its lone run in the fifth after Chris Torres, who was 2-for-2, hit a double into left-center field for Dillon Engelhart to score.
Texas resumes Big 12 play this weekend against West Virginia. Friday's game starts at 7 p.m. with a 2 p.m. start on Saturday and noon start on Sunday. All three games will be televised by Longhorn Network with radio on AM 1300 The Zone. Gametracker live stats will be available on TexasSports.com with live Twitter updates @Texas_Baseball.
Notes: Both teams observed a moment of silence prior to the national anthem tonight for the victims of yesterday's event in Boston...with 2 1/3 scoreless innings of relief, Travis Duke now has a 0.74 ERA on the season...tonight's 12 walks by Texas batters was a season high (nine walks was the previous high, set twice)...Texas is now 36-1 all-time at home against UTPA...Mark Payton has reached base safely in 24 straight games.
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Records: Texas (20-15), UTPA (16-16) WP - Urban (1-0) LP - Daniels (0-3) T - 3:17 ATT - 5,187
Daniels, McCasland (3), Tokunaga (3), Maxwell (4), Barrera (6), Harrell (7, Budziszewski (8) and Torres, Huckabay (5). Urban, Duke (5), Knebel (8) and Felts.
Post-Game Quotes
Texas head coach Augie Garrido
On his team's performance tonight: We still had to take the pitches to get on base and hit the ball hard. The outs were quality outs. It wasn't as it may seem. We did drive in three runs with two outs with base hits and we hit the ball hard two of the three times with the bases loaded. It wasn't as feeble as you are making it out to be. I thought from our standpoint, we played the game necessary to put the six runs on the board. Three of them came from timely hitting. Three of them came from walks.
On where his team is positioned at this point in the season: We need to win every game we possibly can from here on. I recognize that we're last in the league, which is hard to even imagine, but it's true. At the same time, we're second in the league in RPI. Figure that one out. What we need to do is put ourselves in the best possible position to get into the tournament, hopefully win the tournament, finish as high in the league as we can and get ourselves into the regional championships. That's our goal and that's a possibility.
On the value in grinding out six runs tonight: We talked before it started (about how) we might as well turn the page on what we've been doing and try something different. That difference is to play inning to inning, pitch to pitch and get our minds off the scoreboard.
Junior first baseman/pitcher Ty Marlow
On what pitches he was seeing today: We've just got to be patient. We were kind of anxious. Some of us swung at bad pitches. We need to be patient when they are throwing strikes or balls. It doesn't matter. We have to have the same mindset no matter who is on the mound.
On staying composed at the plate in a game with a lot of walks: We just need to stick with it. Like the coaches tell us, be patient. Take good pitches.
Junior pitcher Corey Knebel
On what he, as a veteran, can do to prevent his team from repeating last season's disappointing finish: We keep telling them the truth. We're a lot different than last year. We're actually a team that's really good, but we're not showing it right now. We know it will turn around soon. It's got to. The team we have is actually really good. It just hasn't gone our way, yet.
On whether this weekend is a do-or-die series: I feel like it is. This is definitely a needed series to win, especially because it would be our only Big 12 series to win. We definitely need the momentum and, like you said, it's do or die.
