Preston Clark and Brandon Loy

That was one to remember. As was Austin Wood's 12 innings and 169 pitches in the 25 inning, 7 hour game last night.

Not sure exactly what to think of that one.

...and what about Cameron Rupp catching all 25 innings....

Way to go Brandon and Preston! And Cam had 4 hits today as well. Tant also had a pinch hit in the 9th.

Up north, Jason Coats had the GWH in the 9th to win it for TCU.

There will be at least one Texas team in Omaha.

deaconspoint -- I'll say it....I think asking a kid to throw 170 pitches (doesn't include warm up throws) at this time of the year while being a member of the deepest pitching staff in the country is......crazy (IMO), regardless of the circumstances. Can I use that word here?

I've always been totally against unreasonably high pitch-counts ... as this one seems to be. Someone previously pointed out that he averaged only 13 pitches per inning.

Just wondering if anyone has seen or heard of any research on how much of an offsetting factor that is? Or is that a topic for a new thread?

I heard the postgame show and coach garrido commented that after his 9th inning, Wood walked past Garrido and pitching coach skip johnson in the dugout and said, "I'm *not* coming out of this game."

... so the coaches' excuse for hurting a guy is that he was going to be mad if he was taken out of the game? I didn't know about the 169 pitches before reading this thread, but if that's the case, I think it's horrible.

I heard after 34 pitches the kid had so much sweat running down the brim of his hat that a fan asked Skip if he was healthy enough to continue.

Soon there after, the kid drank the whole cooler of Gatoraide and rehydrated his body to the point he was ready to go another 57 pitches.

When the kid complained that his bladder was about to pop, the coaching staff was decided to teach him a lesson for drinking all that flavored sugar water and said "you will just have to pitch until you sweat it all out again".

So the kid eventually did, but to prove a point he drank another jug of Aide.......this time Kool Aide.......

You know, the same thing you all drink in regards to the pitch count topic.

Augie, Skip, the whole UT staff..........

OFF WITH THEIR HEADS.............