The Longhorns not only prevented a sweep at the hands of Tennessee, but they won the 1,500th game in program history. Texas is the first college baseball team to reach that milestone, according to UT athletics.<\/p>\n
Casey Borba was the star in\u00a0the series finale, driving in six runs as part\u00a0of a two-home run performance. The junior infielder now has 31 career homers, tied for the ninth-most in school history (Drew Stubbs, Eric Kennedy). Texas (37-12, 16-10 SEC) hit four home runs in total, including two in the first inning.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Tennessee tied the game after Texas’ four-run first inning. But the Longhorns poured it on, scoring in the third, fifth, sixth and ninth innings. Borba hit a sixth-inning grand slam in the sixth inning to make it 12-4. Freshman Anthony Pack\u00a0Jr. and sophomore Adrian Rodriguez also went yard for Texas.<\/p>\n
Ruger Riojas started for Texas, allowing three hits and four runs over four innings. The right-hander struck out four and walked two. Left-hander Haiden Leffew earned the win in relief, racking up five strikeouts and yielding just a hit in three innings.<\/p>\n
Next up for UT is the final SEC series of the regular season, at home against Missouri.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Longhorns not only prevented a sweep at the hands of Tennessee, but they won the 1,500th game…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224149,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[790,27,29,537,20340,28],"class_list":["post-287652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-tennessee-volunteers","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-longhorns","tag-texas-longhorns-baseball","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287652","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=287652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}