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Baseball defeats Texas Tech in fall exhibition
09.27.2025 | Baseball
Longhorns score seven unanswered runs to cruise past Red Raiders, 9-3
ROUND ROCK, Texas — The Texas Longhorns opened their fall slate with a 9-3 exhibition win over Texas Tech in a 12-inning contest at Dell Diamond on Saturday afternoon.
Texas mounted six unanswered tallies across the fifth and sixth, highlighted by a pair of two-run doubles from Aiden Robbins. Robbins also kickstarted the offensive outburst with a run-scoring single in the first, finishing 3-for-4 with five RBI.
Following a standout freshman campaign, Adrian Rodriguez picked up where he left off, reaching safely four times. Rodriguez tallied three hits and plated two runs across the nearly five-hour affair.
With the Longhorns and Red Raiders tied in the fifth, Rodriguez delivered a go-ahead RBI single. Two batters later, Robbins notched a two-run extra-base hit to extend the lead to 5-2.
The next inning, Texas padded its advantage thanks to a bases-loaded walk and another two-RBI double from Robbins.
The six-run cushion was more than enough for the Longhorns' pitching staff, which held the visitors to only three runs on seven hits.
After yielding two tallies in the third, Texas held Texas Tech scoreless over the next eight frames, including four straight hitless innings. Freshmen Brett Crossland, Brody Walls, Sam Cozart and Brady Westphal combined for five strikeouts over that stretch.
Overall, the Longhorns used 13 different hurlers, with the first 11 arms all tossing one frame apiece, as scheduled.
Left-hander Cal Higgins logged the win, punching out a pair in a shutdown fifth.
Up next, Texas returns home to host Lamar on Oct. 3. First pitch is set for 6:30 p.m. at UFCU Disch-Falk Field.
