The University of Texas at Austin Athletics
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Baseball evens series with 12-0 shutout of West Virginia
04.20.2013 | Baseball
April 20, 2013
AUSTIN, Texas - Ty Marlow and Jacob Felts had a career-high four RBI apiece while Dillon Peters threw eight shutout innings Saturday as the Texas Longhorns shut out the West Virginia Mountaineers, 12-0, to even its Big 12 series at UFCU Disch-Falk Field. The Longhorns tied a season high for runs in their 14-hit attack while Peters limited the Mountaineers to four hits on the afternoon.
Prior to the game, Texas Baseball celebrated the 30th anniversary of the 1983 national championship team as 20 former players, including major leaguers Roger Clemens and Calvin Schiraldi, and former head coach Cliff Gustafson were honored.
C.J Hinojosa and Mark Payton had three hits each as Ty Marlow went 2-for-4 with a double while Felts hit his second career home run.
Texas improves to 21-16 overall and 5-9 in Big 12 play while West Virginia fell to 22-18 on the season, 5-6 in conference.
Madison Carter started the scoring in the Texas half of the fourth with a leadoff double off Dan Dierdorff. Hinojosa singled, followed by Payton's RBI double for the first run. Ty Marlow then hit a hard grounder that glanced off Dierdorff's leg into center field as two more runs scored. Collin Shaw then doubled home Marlow from second and Brooks Marlow singled to left center for a five-run inning for the Longhorns.
It was another five-run inning in the fifth for Texas as Ty Marlow provided a two-run double before Felts blasted a three-run shot to left. UT added a run in the sixth and the seventh innings as Travis Duke mopped up in relief of Peters with a perfect ninth.
The series concludes tomorrow with a noon start and 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: Dillon Peters has allowed just one run in his last three starts for a 0.36 ERA (24 2/3 innings)...Peters now has a 0.98 ERA in Big 12 games this season...Erich Weiss did not start for the first time in his three-year career at Texas after being hit by a pitch in last night's contest, but was medically cleared to play today...Mark Payton recorded his sixth outfield assist of the season...Payton hit his fifth triple of the season...Texas has scored 30 runs in its last four games with today's total matching the season high of 12 runs on April 9 vs. Texas State...the Longhorns have registered double-digit hits in three of their last four games...Texas has now recorded a season-high five runs in an inning four times after today.
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Records: Texas (21-16, 5-9), West Virginia (22-18, 5-6) WP - D. Peters (4-2) LP - Dierdorff (2-5) T - 2:34 ATT - 6,747
Dierdorff, Hostrander (5), Holmes (7), Harlow (8) and Filauro, Nogay (6). Peters, Duke (9) and Felts.
Post-Game Quotes
Texas head coach Augie Garrido
Opening statement: It has been an extremely difficult journey to get to that point in the fourth inning offensively. Now that they've seen it, they know why we (have been) confused about how our hitters in scrimmages can hit Dillon Peters, (Nathan) Thornhill and (Corey) Knebel way better than our opponents can. We don't punish, in game environments, the opposing hitters that aren't necessarily as good. If you look at the top pitchers in this league, with the exception of last night, we've hit very well against the three best pitchers in this league. It's not so much about the hitting; it's about the tension. Today we busted through that in the fourth inning and it set up the rest of the game. In the first three, they looked exactly the same as before. We were in the same rut. Then all of a sudden, the fourth inning took place and it looked like a Longhorn Baseball team--the one we've seen several times in practice. That's why the journey has been difficult to understand and why I've said we're so close. Our pitching is pretty good and our defense can be pretty good.
On whether there is any way to explain his team's improvement today: Not really. The only thing is that it goes back to being confident, aggressive and competitive to a level that overcomes the fear. Guys that get in the zone, it doesn't matter what sport it is, they are in the zone.
On how he explains Dillon Peters' last few exceptional performances: He's a really good pitcher. He was really good in high school. He was a dominant pitcher. He would have been drafted by a major league team if he had the computer profile of a major league pitcher. He's going to have to be one of those guys that proves (himself) at every level. A lot of them have done that, especially left handed pitchers.
Sophomore pitcher Dillon Peters
On his team's run support today: We kind of woke up the bats there in the fourth. It felt good. We know we have it inside of us. We grind it out every day and finally it just clicked. Hopefully this is a snowball effect and this keeps coming for us. Our offense came ready today, but there was also some good defensive play. I was fortunate enough to go that deep and it's easy to pitch like that when you have a 12-run lead.
On whether he's getting better as the season goes on: Yes. I'm getting more and more comfortable with my routine. I've been working out midweek and making sure I'm not missing bullpens or long toss. It's carrying over and I'm going to keep doing what I've been doing to try and ride this as long as I can.
Junior first baseman Ty Marlow
On whether his team saved anything for tomorrow's outing: Yes, we're hoping so. We (will) come out tomorrow and do the same exact thing. Nathan (Thornhill) is going to come on the mound and do the same thing. We're going to get after it.
On what the feeling was like on the bench with a breakout like today's game coming on a non-Tuesday: Obviously, it was different. It felt awesome. Everyone in the dugout knows who can do it. We just haven't been scoring those runs. To actually do and to have Dillon (Peters) go out there and shove, the dugout was the best atmosphere it's ever been. It felt great.
