Posted June 8th, 2009 by Brian
Filed under: Baseball, Feature, World Series
Kevin Keyes' first inning homer set the stage for the Texas win. (Statesman.com)
The Texas Longhorns are headed back to Omaha for the 33rd time. The team topped [tag]TCU[/tag] 5-2 to win their Super Regional and advance to the [tag]College World Series[/tag]. The Longhorns won thanks to a complete performance in all facets of the game, getting great starting pitching, great defense, and great fundamental offense and power.
Freshman starter [tag]Taylor Jungmann[/tag] allowed only 2 hits over 6 innings to earn the win. The offense was led by [tag]Brandon Belt[/tag] and [tag]Kevin Keyes[/tag] who helped get the Horns off to a quick 3-run lead in the first inning. Keyes homered in the first and nearly had another one later when he double off the top of the rightfield wall.
Texas will open CWS play Sunday against [tag]Southern Miss[/tag] at 6pm on ESPN2.
Twitter updates from @40acressports
- RT @gkketch: Horns win & are headed to Omaha. No dogpile. That’s not how they do things in Austin. If there’s a dogpile, it’s in Omaha. #UT
- Ruffin throws it by the TCU batter for the strikeout! #UT is headed to OMAHA!! #CWS
- Saturday’s starter Chance Ruffin in the game in relief and gets 1st batter he faces to pop up on the infield. 1 out to go. #UT
- Another hit and another run for TCU. Austin Wood yanked. #UT 5, TCU 2
- This is why it was so important Wood got out of the 8th inning. Vern nearly hits ANOTHER homerun, but gets a triple instead. #UT
- Dinker to 2nd baseman for the 1st out of the 9th. 2 to go. #UT
- Horns go quietly in the bottom of the 8th. 3 more outs to go to Omaha. #UT
- Wood really needs to get this guy. Don’t want Carpenter/Vern coming up with chance to tie this thing. #UT
- TCU gets on the board thanks to 3 straight hits off of Austin Wood. Now #UT 5, TCU 1.
- Another double play ball on easy grounder to 3rd clears off Belt’s error. 4 outs to go. #UT
- Leadoff man for TCU on as first baseman Belt just drops one. #UT
- @TAning Eric Young just had the weirdest little chuckle regarding Augie Garrido. “He’s funny” Thanks EY.
- 3 up, 3 down for Austin Wood and Horns take their 5-run lead into the 7th inning stretch. 6 outs to go. #UT
- RT @aTrubow: Austin Wood is into the game for #ut. That’s it for Jungmann, who was solid today. Good outing for the freshman.
- ‘Keep Austin Weird’ is apparently a new phrase according to ESPN announcers. Sigh. #UT
- 6 innings down, 3 to go. #UT leads 5-0.
- And even better play by Jungmann on next comebacker as he turns double play to end 6th inning. SS Loy with the nice turn as well. #UT
- Good defense by Jungmann on comebacker. Gets the runner at 3rd so now TCU has runners on 1st and 2nd with 1 out. #UT
- Merit stickers are dumb in football (see tOSU) and even worse in baseball. #UT
- 1st threat for TCU as they have 1st two batters on here in the top of the 6th against Jungmann. Might have been bad call on HBP. #UT
- Why would anyone use this KGB txt answers thing? GOOG-411 is free and fantastic.
- Keyes strikes out looking to end the 5th. Definitely wasn’t expecting fastball right down the middle there. #UT
- RT @gkketch: Hey #UT football fans. Malcolm Brown will be camping on the 14th. RT this news & get me more followers. I need to catch shaq.
- GREAT diving catch by Rowe on short pop fly. If he misses that it might bounce a while. Next batter hits into double play to end inning. #UT
- ESPN announces jinx Jungmann’s no-hitter by incessantly yapping how they can’t jinx Jungmann’s no hitter. Leadoff man on for TCU in 5th. #UT
- Connor Rowe with 2-out single scores Rupp from second. #UT now up 5-0. Offense is really clicking both with small ball and longball.
- Think Augie is great philospher like the ESPN guys? Win ‘Inning by Inning’ DVD (Augie Garrido doc) from: http://tr.im/nMOP #UT #free
- Cameron Rupp picks up his teammate with a sharp RBI double down LF line. Clutch hit expands #UT lead to 4-0.
- RT @aTrubow: Clark strikes out. He was swinging for the fence. That was a bad at-bat. #ut
- TCU making a pitching change. 1 out in the bottom of the 4th, score is still #UT 3, TCU 0 but Texas has Keyes on 3rd.
- Keyes has almost picked off about 3 times just now. #UT
- Kevin Keyes just a few feet from another HR, this one just short off the RF wall for a leadoff double. #UT
- Taylor Jungmann cruising through 3 innings. Hopefully the #UT offense can pad this 3-run lead a little.
- RT @kbohls: Both Texas’ Jungmann and TCU’s Lockwood have thrown 39 pitches through two innings, an exorbitantly high number. Hello, bullpen.
- TCU swinging at high & tight heaters from Jungmann. All the talk is TCU had nothing to lose, but they’re swinging like theyre pressing. #UT
- @Texas_Gal There’s a “live audio” on the baseball schedule page: http://tr.im/gCL2 but I can’t get it to work in Firefox on a Mac.
- Kevin Keyes needs to get stronger? Looked strong enough there as he HAMMERED the ball over the leftfield wall. #UT 3 – TCU 0
- Triple by Brandon Belt scores Torres and starts #UT off on the right foot. Ball carried very well.
- Jungmann definitely hyped in the 1st inning. Did good job of getting through Vern/Carpenter without ever throwing a hittable pitch. #UT
- RT @aTrubow: Longhorn crowd deciding to pump the team up instead of vice versa. That’s kind of unusual. (No offense #ut fans)
- Good catch by Kevin Keyes in rightfield on a sharp line drive. 2 up, 2 down. Jungmann is working fast. #UT
- First pitch from Jungmann is a ball and we’re underway. #UT
- Just a couple of minutes away fromfirst pitch of #UT v TCU. Hopefully ESPN doesn’t bitch this one.
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