The No. 6 Texas Longhorns recorded a second straight 40-win season for the first time in 15 years with a 12-7 victory over the Missouri Tigers on Saturday at UFCU Disch-Falk Field that earned head coach Jim Schlossnagle\u2019s team the No. 2 seed in the SEC Tournament next week, ensuring a double bye before playing next Friday.<\/p>\n
The Longhorns scored 12 runs without the benefit of the long ball, sending 11 batters to the plate in a six-run fourth inning that earned Texas an 8-2 lead on five hits as Missouri hit two batters and walked two more.<\/p>\n
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In the eighth, the Tigers got to redshirt senior right-hander Cody Howard at the end of a strong outing by notching five runs, four credited to Howard, to narrow the deficit to 8-7.<\/p>\n
Texas responded in a heartening sign for the looming postseason, scoring four runs on three hits in the bottom of the frame, keyed by leadoff back-to-back doubles, three walks, a run scored on a wild pitch, and an RBI single.<\/p>\n
In the ninth, freshman right-hander Kaleb Rogers recorded the final out with a strikeout in the first appearance of his career impacted by the season-ending surgery of senior right-hander Max Grubbs and the anticipated passage of new NCAA eligibility rules that will allow players five years to play five season of college athletics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The No. 6 Texas Longhorns recorded a second straight 40-win season for the first time in 15 years…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297486,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[787,27,67041,29,537,28],"class_list":["post-297485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-missouri-tigers","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\/297485","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=297485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}