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No. 12 Baseball Preview: at Stanford [March 5-8]
03.04.2015 | Baseball
Texas opens four-game set at Stanford Thursday at 8 p.m. CT
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No. 12 Texas (8-4, 0-0 Big 12) at Stanford (7-6, 0-0 Pac 12) • March 5-8
Where: Stanford, California • Klein Field at Sunken Diamond
Times (Central Time Listed): Thursday, 8 p.m. | Friday, 8 p.m. | Saturday, 4 p.m. | Sunday, 3 p.m.
Streaming Video: Pac-12.com/videos/stanford-university
Radio: AM 1300 The Zone, TexasSports.com/Audio
Talent: Craig Way, Roger Wallace, Bill Little
Live Stats: GoStanford.com
All-time Series: Stanford leads, 32-29-1
Probable Starting Pitchers
THURSDAY
UT - Jr. RHP Chad Hollingsworth (1-0, 2.45)
STANFORD - TBA
FRIDAY
UT - So. RHP Kacy Clemens (1-1, 6.75)
STANFORD - TBA
SATURDAY
UT - Sr. RHP Parker French (1-1, 1.76)
STANFORD - TBA
SUNDAY
UT - So. LHP Josh Sawyer (1-1, 3.38)
STANFORD - TBA
A LOOK AT THE MATCHUP
• The Longhorns trail the all-time series with the Cardinal 29-32-1, but took two of three games last season (Feb. 21-23, 2014).
• In Palo Alto, Stanford leads the all-time series 16-7, including six straight wins.
• Augie Garrido is 45-47-1 for his career against Stanford, and holds a 26-29-1 mark at UT.
• In the postseason, the two squads have split 12 games all-time, but Texas does hold a three-games-to-two advantage in the College World Series.
• In the Garrido Era, the teams have split six post season matchups, and Texas is 2-0 in Omaha.
A LOOK AT THE LONGHORNS
• The Texas baseball team ranks in the Top 20 of each major college baseball poll (USA Today Coaches Poll - 12; Perfect Game - 13; NCBWA - 13; Baseball America - 14; Collegiate Baseball - 15; D1Baseball.com - 18).
• The Longhorn bullpen saw its streak of not allowing an earned run end at 37 2/3 innings with the four earned runs allowed in the top of the ninth of game two of a doubleheader vs. San Diego (March 1). However, the relievers still hold a 1.39 ERA (eight earned runs in 51 2/3 innings) on the year.
• The Longhorn offense is currently tied for second in the NCAA in doubles with 30 (Alabama - 32), and has 39 extra-base hits in just 12 games. UT blasted 20 of those extra base hits (15 doubles, four triples, one home run) in the series vs. Minnesota.
• Collin Shaw had six extra-base hits against the Golden Gophers (all doubles), and has a conference-high 11 extra-base hits this season (10 doubles, one triple), after having six (five doubles, one triple) in all of 2014. Shaw is currently t-2nd in the NCAA with his 10 doubles.
• Ben Johnson leads the Big 12 and is tied for fourth nationally with 23 hits.
• Texas is outscoring its opponents 36-8 from the seventh inning on this season.
• The pitching staff tossed its third consecutive shutout Feb. 29 vs. Minnesota, which was the first time Texas has done that since March 22-24, 2002, against UTPA. Prior to that, Texas hadn't recorded three straight since 1983 vs. Dallas Baptist.
• The pitching staff did not allow an earned run throughout the entire Minnesota series (Feb. 20-22), and it held Minnesota to an .067 batting average (3 for 45) with runners on base. With runners in scoring position, it held the Gophers hitless (0 for 18), and with two outs Minnesota hit .118 (4-for-34) with zero RBIs.
• The 31 runs scored by the Longhorns in the Minnesota series was the highest total in a four-game set since they had 34 against Dallas Baptist in 1989.
• Longhorn base runners swiped six bases Feb. 22 against Minnesota, the most since they had six steals against California on March 30, 2012.
• UT has scored 50 of its 70 total runs in innings where the leadoff man reaches base safely.
• Texas has four players hitting over .300 on the year: Ben Johnson (.434), Bret Boswell (.341), Collin Shaw (.340) and Tres Barrera (.333).
• Those players also all have on-base plus slugging percentages (OPS) higher than .900 for the season: Tres Barrera (1.076), Ben Johnson (1.066), Collin Shaw (1.022) and Bret Boswell (.908). Last season, the Longhorns finished with one player over .800 (Mark Payton, .828).
• Ben Johnson saw his 11-game hit streak come to an end with an 0-for-3 effort in game one of the doubleheader vs. San Diego (March 1). Johnson bounced back in game two, going 2-for-3 with a triple and an RBI, and he boasts a .434 batting average on the year and leads the Big 12 in hits with 23.
• Tres Barrera and Bret Boswell have each reached base safely in all 12 games thus far. Barrera has a .481 on-base percentage and Boswell a .453. Barrera holds a 13-game reached base streak dating back to last season.
