Source: http://ift.tt/1bocU1l --- Sunday, February 25, 2018
The Tigers scored 10 unanswered runs to rout Texas and take the series. Saturday night’s game against LSU saw the Texas Longhorns lose an up and down game which featured a bit of everything – lots of hitting, strong pitching, fielding errors, questionable calling, and wild pitches. The latter, along with key errors in the field really hurt Texas’ chances of taking this game in Baton Rouge. Tonight, Texas faced LSU starting pitcher Caleb Gilbert who has appeared in 28 games (five starts), posting a 7-1 mark and a 2.16 ERA in 58.1 innings with a .190 opponent batting average all-time. Although Gilbert has had a rough start to the season, and lacks abundance of experience in the starting pitching role, the ‘Horns were facing a strong pitcher. Chase Shugart got the start for the Longhorns tonight. Coming off his strong start against UL – Lafayette, he continued his momentum by having an efficient start to the game. With the defense having a cleaner game, Shugart was able to keep his pitch count at a minimum, and keep most of his pitches down in the zone to enable a lot of groundballs early in the game. From the outset of the game, Texas seemed to be having the kind of start LSU enjoyed from yesterday’s game as the bats came alive. DJ Petrinsky got things rolling in the top of the second when he lined one into right-center for a two base knock. Zach Zubia, followed that up with a line drive two-run home run to give the Longhorns a tw ...
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