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No. 9 Texas Walks Away With 16-7 Win
3/15/2003 12:00:00 AM | Baseball
March 15, 2003
AUSTIN, Texas - Dustin Majewski went 5-for-6 with five RBI, and No. 9-ranked Texas took advantage of nine Missouri walks in a 16-7 win at Disch-Falk Field on Saturday.
The Longhorns (17-7) got on board in the first when Omar Quintanilla drew a one-out walk and moved to third on a single to right by Dustin Majewski, who advanced to second on the throw to third. Taylor Teagarden grounded out to second to drive in Quintanilla, and Eric Sultemeier singled home Majewski.
In the second, junior OF Ryan Rallo (Chesterfield, Mo.) was hit by a pitch and balked over to second, and junior Cody Ehlers (Stillwater, Okla.) poked a single up the middle to score Rallo.
The Horns took the lead with four runs in the second, then burst the game open by batting around and plating five runs - with a pair coming unearned - in the bottom half.
Missouri (12-7) had chipped away starting in the top of the fifth, when freshman James Boone (Clinton, Okla.) reached on an error by Quintanilla, stole second and advanced to third on a wild pitch. He scored on a double down the right-field line by redshirt freshman DH Tyrone Roberson (St. Louis, Mo.). Roberson then scored on a fielding error by UT SS Michael Holliman.
The Tigers got another run in the sixth when junior 2B Jeremy Hernandez (Aptos, Calif.) scored on a two-out throwing error by Holliman - his second of the inning and third of the game. In the seventh, Roberson scored his second run of the game on a single up the middle by junior SS Ian Kinsler (Tucson, Ariz.). Hernandez cranked a 1-1 pitch to right in eighth for his third homer of the season, and Kinsler and junior OF Lee Laskowski (Clayton, Mo.) hit back-to-back ground-rule doubles for Mizzou's final run. All told, Missouri scored runs in each of the last five innings.
"The bottom line is that Texas threw strikes, and we didn't," said Head Coach Tim Jamieson. "Against any team, if you give up nine walks, you're going to get hurt. The thing we have to do is challenge their hitters, and we didn't."
The two teams will play the rubber game of the series on Sunday at 1 p.m.
