Now that the dust has settled on Texas Tech's baseball season, I'd like to reexamine a spot in Sunday night's contest that featured J-Bob Thomas getting tossed from the game for arguing balls and strikes.
Let's go back to Friday night before we get to the ejection or the resulting suspension...
Texas Tech baseball had one of the best offenses in the Big 12. They averaged nearly 9 runs a game all year long. In their regional, Texas Tech lost 3-2 to Notre Dame in game one and 2-1 in game four to be eliminated.
In the two games the Red Raiders won, the offense still struggled...
Texas Tech battled Notre Dame and a rain delay, a terrible home plate umpire, and the inability to get a hit with runners in scoring position tonight to drop game one of the NCAA Regional in Statesboro.
In the first inning, Texas tech jumped on the ND starter and loaded the bases...
Texas Tech junior pitcher Brandon Birdsell and sophomore infielder Jace Jung were named second-team All-Americans on Thursday, announced by Collegiate Baseball News. Jung was the Big 12 Player of the Year last season, while Brandon Birdsell was the Big 12 Pitcher of the Year this season...
The NCAA sets up hotels for regional sites for the NCAA Baseball tournament. Those sites are, I'm sure, helped by the hosting school. When Texas Tech hosted five straight NCAA Regional Tournaments and multiple Super Regional, I think Lubbock was found to be an exemplary host destination...
It's the offseason but I can't help myself. I'm starting to be pretty dadgum optimistic about the upcoming Texas Tech Football team. Maybe it's The Brand, or maybe it's just Joey McGuire. Whatever it is, Texas Tech football has some kind of momentum and I'm feeling it.
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If you haven't been paying attention, the four best quarterbacks in the NFL have been preparing this summer to play each other in golf on June 1st, 2022. There will be two teams of quarterbacks competing against each other: the young guns Patrick Mahomes and Josh Allen vs the old dudes in Tom Brady and Aaron Rodgers...
Texas Tech Baseball is headed to their sixth straight NCAA Tournament, but it'll be their first in that stretch to not begin the road to Omaha in Lubbock, Texas.