Game Thread - @ UTSA

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2nd leg of a 2-game home and home series with UTSA is Tuesday night in San Antonio, a week after the first game in San Marcos.

Schedule/Probable Pitching Matchup
Tuesday - 6pm

Sr. RHP Trevis Sundgren (2-4, 6.23 ERA) vs. So. RHP Ryan Ward (1-0, 4.50 ERA)
  • Sundgren re-enters the rotation after coming out of the bullpen for the last 2 weeks. His last start was a loss to Texas A&M on April 5th. Sundgren's last 3 starts have all been losses (Texas A&M, Sam Houston, Incarnate Word) and he surrendered 11 earned runs over 10 combined innings across those 3 games. He's had a couple good starts on the year (1 run over 7 innings vs. Prairie View, 5 scoreless vs. Wichita State). Hopefully he can get back to that form tonight, though UTSA's lineup is a good one.
  • Ward started last week vs. Texas State and only went 1.2 innings so wouldn't expect him to get deep into this game.
RPI Tracker
47. Texas State (+6)
57. UTSA (-1)

TXST News
  • Texas State is coming off a 3-game sweep of Little Rock over the weekend that moved the overall record to 32-9 and the conference record to 15-3. Both are best starts in program history through 41 overall games and 18 conference games. The 9-game winning streak is a season high, surpassing an 8-game streak earlier in the year. It was also our first ever series victory over Little Rock believe it or not.
  • Bobcats in the rankings with changes from last week:
    • Collegiate Baseball: 7th (+2)
    • D1 Baseball: 17th (-)
    • Coaches Poll: 18th (-1)
    • Baseball America: 19th (+2)
    • NCBWA: 20th (-2)
    • Perfect Game: N/R
  • SS Dalton Shuffield set the program record for career triples over the weekend adding 2 to his tally to give him 12 in his career. For the entire week Shuffield went 10 for 17 at the plate with a 1.632 OPS to be named SBC Player of the Week:
  • Texas State scored 30 runs Saturday vs. Little Rock to set a new program record for Sun Belt games. It was 3 shy of the overall program record of 33 runs scored.
  • Back-up 2nd baseman Cade Manning hit his first career homer Saturday in the blowout. Other backups Carson Keithley and Kyle Atkinson recorded their first career hits in the game as well.
Scouting UTSA
Just did this last week so here you go, just know they can really hit:

Last Meeting/Series History
The last meeting was just 7 days ago, a 14-12 TXST win. That moved the overall series to 61-37 in favor of the Bobcats. TXST also lead all-time in San Antonio with a 26-19 record.

Coverage
This is on CUSA-TV, which I don't think is free but here's the link:

Brant Freeman and Clint Shields will have the radio call on KTSW.

UTSA Message Board
 

stlwildcats

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Defense killed us again to let bad turn into worse. Do think they’ll be more runs. Hopefully it’s from us
 

SWTSC

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6 unearned runs in the sixth and 1 unearned in the seventh. Fielding was 201 out of 293 D1 baseball team as of games thru this past weekend. Several weeks ago was #171; continues to worsen as the season progresses. Best in the belt is Georgia Southern @ #30. At this stage, afraid fielding apt to be part of the epitaph when the season ends.
 
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