AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Behind a pair of six-spots, No. 2 registered a 16-4 run-rule victory over Incarnate Word at UFCU Disch-Falk Field on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n
With the result, the Longhorns (27-5) earned a run-rule win for the eighth time this season.<\/p>\n
Texas scored in five of its six trips to the plate against the Cardinals (16-17), highlighted by six runs in both the second and third frames. The Longhorns batted around in both innings, combining to record seven hits.<\/p>\n
In the victory, all nine starting position players reached safely, as\u00a0Ethan Mendoza<\/a>,\u00a0Carson Tinney<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Temo Becerra<\/a>\u00a0all notched multi-hit performances.<\/p>\n Tinney smacked his fourth home run in his last 10 at-bats, launching a 431-foot blast that cleared the 32-foot monster in center. The junior finished 2-for-2 with four runs scored and two walks, capped off by his co-team-best 11th homer in the fifth.<\/p>\n Mendoza also left the yard, mashing a 388-foot jack over the YETI Yard in left. The sixth-inning shot marked his career-high eighth home run.<\/p>\n Texas used five arms in the seven-inning contest.\u00a0Hudson Hamilton<\/a>\u00a0(1-0) logged the win, tossing 1 2\/3 scoreless in relief of starter\u00a0Kade Bing<\/a>. Hamilton struck out three of the seven batters he faced.<\/p>\n Meanwhile,\u00a0Ethan Walker<\/a>,\u00a0Max Grubbs<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Brody Walls<\/a>\u00a0teamed up to retire seven of the last eight Cardinals.<\/p>\n Up next, the Longhorns face rival No. 18 Texas A&M in the Cotton Holdings Lone Star Showdown at Blue Bell Park. The three-game set is slated to begin at 7 p.m. Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Behind a pair of six-spots, No. 2 registered a 16-4 run-rule victory over Incarnate Word…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-239869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}