{"id":287658,"date":"2026-05-11T08:03:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T08:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/287658\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T08:03:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T08:03:07","slug":"texas-baseball-beats-tennessee-becomes-1st-program-to-1500-wins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/287658\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas baseball beats Tennessee, becomes 1st program to 1,500 wins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statesman.com\/hookem\/baseball\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Texas baseball;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Texas baseball&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Texas baseball<\/a> made history with its 13-6 win Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>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 (<a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/mlb\/players\/8528\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:Drew Stubbs;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Drew Stubbs&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Drew Stubbs<\/a>, Eric Kennedy). Texas (37-12, 16-10 SEC) hit four home runs in total, including two in the first inning.<\/p>\n<p>Tennessee tied the game after Texas&#8217; 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<p>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<p>Next up for UT is the final SEC series of the regular season, at home against Missouri.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas baseball made history with its 13-6 win Sunday. The Longhorns not only prevented a sweep at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287659,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[101672,105471,105470,27,67041,29,537,28],"class_list":["post-287658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-casey-borba","tag-drew-stubbs","tag-eric-kennedy","tag-texas","tag-texas-baseball","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-longhorns","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287658","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=287658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}