expected starter<\/a> for UTSA is right-hander James Hubbard, a regular midweek starter last year who has started one game this season and has a 1-1 record with a 5.92 ERA in nine appearances.<\/p>\nTexas enters its final Tuesday game of the 2026 season without an established fourth starter as the postseason looms, a disappointing development considering that hope that Schlossnagle put in freshman right-hander Michael Winter when he returned from a month-long absence due to illness in April.<\/p>\n
Since his return, Winter hasn\u2019t been able to establish a rhythm on the mound, missing a planned start against Air Force due to rain and only getting one out in his two other starts while allowing six total earned runs on five hits with two walks.<\/p>\n
Winter\u2019s struggles forced Texas to mount comeback victories against Texas A&M-Corpus Christi and Sam Houston, forcing Schlossnagle to make a decision about whether to go with Winter again or turn to another midweek pitcher like junior left-hander Kade Bing.<\/p>\n
UTSA\u2019s game notes indicate that Schlossnagle is expected to start senior right-hander Max Grubbs (2-0, 4.67 ERA). In the only other start for Grubbs this season, a midweek game against Texas State, he allowed three runs, one earned, on five hits in 1.0 inning.<\/p>\n
The Longhorns are also trying to build up freshman center fielder Maddox Monsour, whose speed gives him high-level range in the outfield and the ability to make an impact on the base paths. In those two areas, Monsour is confident, but it hasn\u2019t fully translated to the batter\u2019s box yet.<\/p>\n
\u201cMaddox has elite physical skills in terms of running, throwing, multiple positions, and he\u2019s in the process of building the confidence that it takes to really thrive in those moments,\u201d Schlossnagle said on Monday.<\/p>\n
One positive sign for Monsour during the weekend series against Mississippi State was successfully putting a bunt down, a freedom that Schlossnagle afford his players with no one on base. But Monsour is still only hitting .214 this year, so any impact he can provide at the plate would be a positive for Texas.<\/p>\n
With a three-game losing streak against the Roadrunners that includes the two losses in last year\u2019s regional, Texas looks for its first win over UTSA since 2020 at 6:30 p.m. Central on SEC Network+.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three hundred and thirty-eight days ago, the UTSA Roadrunners shocked the Texas Longhorns with an upset in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281024,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,20340,28],"class_list":["post-281023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-longhorns-baseball","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281023","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=281023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}