Rice baseball beats Texas 7 - 4 Tuesday night in Austin. Forget the Rockets, Rice wins! Rice wins! Speaking of officials. You always have to beat the team and the officials when you play Texas anywhere in the state.

Rice is now off for over a week for finals. So they used all pitchers who were rested enough. Rice used six pitchers. Even Diego Seatrunk got to face two batters.

I was doing something else so I when I was done I got in the car and turned on 91.7 to hear the call of the bottom of the ninth. Taylor Wall was pitching. It sounded like he was struggling to get the ball in the strike zone. But he managed to get enough in and the game ended on a double play ball. How exciting for those who were able to make it to Austin!

I was glad to hear the end.

After Sunday the people in the stands were not confident about playing Texas. Texas has won about ten in a row. But hey that just playing Big-12 teams. They are not playing Rice. I'm sure Texas did not play their front line pitchers but they did close with a weekend starter, just like we did.

The Rice hitters got 13 hits and left eight on base. Texas only got five hits but Rice pitchers walked Texas 12 batters. Was that the umpires giving Texas the benefit of the doubt. Perhaps. I was not there but I can wonder.