{"id":249722,"date":"2026-04-14T19:55:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T19:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/249722\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T19:55:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T19:55:22","slug":"no-4-baseball-preview-texas-am-corpus-christi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/249722\/","title":{"rendered":"No. 4 Baseball preview: Texas A&M-Corpus Christi"},"content":{"rendered":"

TEXAS A&M-CORPUS CHRISTI\u00a0vs. #4\u00a0TEXAS

\nDate: April 14, 2026

\nWhere: UFCU Disch-Falk Field

\nTime: 6:30 p.m.

\nStream\/TV: SEC Network+

\nRadio: AM-1300 The Zone

\nLive stats:\u00a0texas.statbroadcast.com<\/a><\/p>\n

PROBABLE PITCHING MATCHUP

\nTexas A&M-Corpus Christi\u00a0RHP Matthew Molina (0-1, 7.84 ERA) vs. Texas RHP Michael Winter<\/a> (1-0,\u00a00.00\u00a0ERA)<\/p>\n

THE MATCHUP \u2014 No. 4 Texas opens up a five-game homestand on Tuesday, welcoming Texas A&M-Corpus Christi to UFCU Disch-Falk Field. In the all-time series, the Longhorns sport a 26-6 advantage. Texas has won six of the last six meetings between the two sides, outscoring the Islanders, 71-20, over that stretch.\u00a0<\/p>\n

STRONG START \u2014 The 2026 Longhorns are one of four Texas teams to begin 27-7 or better over the past 21 years, alongside the 2005, 2010 and 2025 squads. Last season, the Longhorns notched a 44-14 record, earning the No. 2 overall seed in the NCAA Division I Baseball Championship. In 2005, Texas finished with a 56- 16 ledger, capturing its sixth national championship. As of April 13, the Longhorns have posted the country’s fifth-best WHIP (1.16) and sixth-best ERA (3.46). Heading into the midweek, Texas has averaged 8.3 runs per game. The Longhorns’ .942 OPS ranks 19th nationally. Meanwhile, Texas’ .981 fielding percentage is 18th-best in all of Division I Baseball.\u00a0<\/p>\n

THE EYES OF TEXAS ARE UPON YOU \u2014 Texas is slotted at No. 4 by all five major outlets, which marks the highest ranking of any Southeastern Conference program. The Longhorns sport the No. 2 RPI and No. 7 SOS nationally, according to WarrenNolan.com. Midway through league play, the Longhorns are tied for second place, trailing only Georgia by 1 1\/2 games.\u00a0<\/p>\n

MASTERING MIDWEEKS \u2014 Texas is 6-2 in midweek games, registering three run-rule wins in those contests. Last season, the Longhorns went 9-2 in midweeks. Since 2020, Jim Schlossnagle<\/a>‘s clubs have notched a 58-12 (.829) ledger in midweek games, winning 30 of the last 35 contests.\u00a0<\/p>\n

OWN THE DISCH \u2014 Since UFCU Disch-Falk Field opened in 1975, Texas has gone 1,680-429-3 (.796) at home thanks in large part to Longhorn Nation. Texas has averaged 7,265 fans per game at home, the fifth-highest mark in the country, highlighted by the second-largest regular season crowd with 0f 8,059 against No. 8 Oklahoma on March 28. Across the three-game series vs. the Sooners, the Longhorns welcomed 23,407 fans to UFCU Disch-Falk Field, the third-highest recorded attendance for a three-game set in the ballpark’s history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TEXAS A&M-CORPUS CHRISTI\u00a0vs. #4\u00a0TEXAS Date: April 14, 2026 Where: UFCU Disch-Falk Field Time: 6:30 p.m. Stream\/TV: SEC Network+ …\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249723,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156],"class_list":["post-249722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249722","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=249722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}