April 30, 2008
Final Stats
ARLINGTON, Texas - - The UT Arlington baseball team fell behind early and tried to rally several times, but the Mavericks couldn't deliver the big hit in a 5-2 loss against TCU in a non-conference game Wednesday at Clay Gould Ballpark.
UTA stranded 11 runners, including five in the sixth, seventh and eighth innings. The Mavericks outhit the Frogs, 11-8.
Evan Raley led the Mavericks offense with a 3-for-4 night with two runs batted in. Chad Comer, Michael Choice and Blake Holt had two hits each. The Mavericks (20-25) got a solid outing from junior right-hander Matt Otteman, who allowed four runs on five hits through six innings. Otteman (3-3) was hurt by two big Frog hits - a triple in the second and a double in the third.
TCU moved runners over in each inning and scored two of its first four runs on sacrifices.
The Frogs (30-16) got on the board first when Matt Carpenter tripled to the wall in center to drive in Bryan Holaday, who reached after being hit by a pitch. Holaday then scored on a sacrifice bunt to put the Frogs ahead 2-0 in the second inning. Ben Carruthers led the third with a double to left, giving the Frogs another early scoring chance. TCU took advantage when Carruthers advanced on a throwing error and scored on a Bryan Kervin single to center. A sacrifice fly with one out made it 4-0.
UTA came right back in the bottom of the fourth. Danny Slinkman and Andrew Kainer were hit by pitches to put runners on first and second with one out. After a groundout advanced the runners, Raley hit an infield single to put UTA on the board, 4-1.
The Mavericks put two runners on in each of the fifth and sixth innings but couldn't push anybody home.
UTA started to rally in the eighth when Andrew Kainer smashed a double to right-center field off reliever Trent Appleby, and Comer followed with a bloop over the second baseman's head to put runners at first and third with nobody out. Evan Raley drove Kainer home with a single between third base and shortstop, and the Mavericks had cut the deficit to 5-2 and had two runners on. But a double-play ball and grounder to first led to the Mavs 10th of 11 stranded runners.
