For just the second time this season, the No. 4 Texas Longhorns have lost a series by dropping Saturday\u2019s contest to the Tennessee Volunteers in Knoxville, 14-9.<\/p>\n
For the second straight game, the starting pitching was sharp for the Horns as redshirt senior left-hander Luke Harrison took the mound in place of senior right-hander Ruger Riojas, who is expected to start on Sunday after dealing with soreness, although there is nothing structurally wrong, Texas head coach Jim Schlossnagle said following the loss.<\/p>\n
In a concerning trend, Harrison struggled early for the third time in his last five starts in allowing a run in every inning in which he pitched. The powerful Tennessee lineup hit four home runs against the 6\u20192, 220-pounder, including an unearned two-run home run in the fourth that chased Harrising from the game after giving up six runs, four earned on six hits with two walks.<\/p>\n
The bullpen struggled, too \u2014 redshirt junior left-hander Ethan Walker was the only reliever who didn\u2019t give up a run, and Walker only faced one batter. Another error hurt freshman right-hander Brett Crossland, who allowed three runs, two earned, in an inning, freshman right-hander Brody Walls gave up two runs on a home run in his inning of work, and freshman right-hander Michael Winter continued to struggle as the Volunteers connected on another home run, scoring three runs against Winter in two innings.<\/p>\n
The offense improved from its poor performance on Friday, led by redshirt senior third baseman Temo Becerra, who hit his first home run since March in going 3-for-4 with five RBI. Freshman left fielder Anthony Pack Jr. added three hits as the two players combined for seven of the 10 hits by the Longhorns.<\/p>\n
Texas tries to avoid the series sweep on Sunday at 11 a.m. Central on ESPN2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For just the second time this season, the No. 4 Texas Longhorns have lost a series by dropping…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286943,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,20340,28],"class_list":["post-286942","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\/286942","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=286942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}