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Texas won Game 1 of the Women's College World Series championship on Wednesday in thrilling fashion. Will the Longhorns grab the trophy tonight, or will Texas Tech stay alive for a third game?
Read about the Longhorns' Game 1 win here.
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Texas rallies past Texas Tech to win WCWS Game 1 as Atwood refuses to take intentional walk
NiJa Canady has struck out Reese Atwood twice on outside pitches, both of which earned stomps from the Texas Tech star. Atwood is 0-for-3 tonight. I don't know if it's haunting Texas Tech that it didn't want to pitch to her last night, but it's haunting ME.
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Mia Scott just hit an absolute LASER to dead center to get the Longhorns on the board, taking a screwball that hung over the plate and smashing it at a whopping 79.5 mph exit velo. All with a torn ACL, mind you.
Another note on that Scott homer: That's just the 12th home run that Nija Canady has given up this year. But time and time again, she comes back and gets the strikeout after.
Mia Scott has no off switch, my goodness. If Texas winds up winning, she should absolutely be the WCWS MVP.
B6 – Texas Tech 2, Texas 1
The Longhorns respond immediately. Senior Mia Scott smacks a one-out home run over the left-center field. That ball never went more than 15 feet off the ground and just barely cleared the wall. Here come the Horns.
Nia Canady gets the next two outs, however, and the Red Raiders are three outs from forcing a Game 3. So much drama.
I don’t think there was a Tech fan sitting down at the end of that inning.
It's an anti-climactic way to score the first run, but it's a run nonetheless. Cambria Salmon, a freshman, just plunked Alana Johnson to walk in the first run of the game, and now a passed ball goes through the wickets of Reese Atwood, allowing Mihyia Davis to score from third. The Red Raiders just scored twice without a hit.
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This has been a very weird series. I never would have guessed that the first score of this game would come via hit-by-pitch … and then another score on a wild pitch. Maybe instead of "weird" we should just describe it as "wild."
B5 – Texas Tech 2, Texas 0
The Red Raiders take the lead with a two-out walk and then a hit batter as Alana Johnson is hit to score Raegan Jennings. Then a wild pitch scores Mihyia Davis, and the Red Raiders have it working now.
My goodness.
This might be wild, but should Gerry Glasco send Raegan Jennings to try to steal home again when they're thinking it might be a changeup from Cambria Salmon? If there were less than two outs, it might be worth a shot. But really, at this point, Texas Tech NEEDS runs.
Man, that's the LAST thing you want, a half-swing on a changeup in that situation. With how much these Texas Tech hitters have struggled with Cambria Salmon's change so far, that's a problem for Hailey Toney to solve.
Hailey Toney pops out with two on and one out. … I'm pretty sure that was a freshman mistake right there.
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Mihyia Davis has been SO reliable for this Texas Tech offense all tournament long. She stayed on top of that rise ball to take it into the left-center gap all the way to the wall, setting up two runners in scoring position for Hailey Toney, who reached base earlier in this game on a squibbed ball off Mac Morgan. All Toney needs to do is take this one to the outfield, and the Red Raiders could take the lead.
Patrick Mahomes has this crowd PUMPED. UP. So many Tech fans just got to their feet pointing upward to the star QB, jumping up and down while all cheering for their Red Raiders.
That was such a great at-bat by pinch hitter Logan Halleman, but that 48-mph flip change by Cambria Salmon just froze Halleman where she stood in the lefty batter's box to strike her out looking. My goodness, that was nasty.
Teagan Kavan is warming up in the Texas bullpen. Now would be as good a time as any for the Red Raiders to make a dent in the scorebook this inning.
While this one is, to no one's surprise, a pitchers duel yet again, I'd say it's more of a defensive showcase. Both of these teams are laying everything on the line, diving for balls and making perfect throw after perfect throw. It's putting a lot more pressure on both offenses, and this one keeps getting later and later.
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B5 – Texas 0, Texas Tech 0
Nija Canady looks like she has settled in now that we're through five innings. She had her first 1-2-3 inning on a line out, a strikeout and a pop out. Canady has four strikeouts and has allowed four hits. But if she has found her groove, watch out.
Cambria Salmon's changeup has been lethal against this Texas Tech lineup. Her rise ball speed hits around 68 mph, and her change drops down to the high-40s. It's keeping these Red Raiders quiet, and as Texas Tech coach Gerry Glasco mentioned in his mid-inning interview with Holly Rowe, the last thing this Texas Tech team wants is to go scoreless into the sixth or seventh inning and then have to try to get the win against Teagan Kavan.
T5 – Texas 0, Texas Tech 0
Cambria Salmon has been terrific since replacing Mac Morgan in the circle for Texas. Salmon has faced seven batters and has retired six of them, allowing one hit. The change has worked to perfection for coach Mike White and the Longhorns.
But we're still waiting for some offense.