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The Battalion
SPORTS 7
Tuesday, April 17,1990
Ags hope to regroup against TSU
No. 12 A&M
closes weekday
season Tuesday
By ALAN LEHMANN
Of The Battalion Staff
The No. 12 Texas A&M baseball
team faces Texas Southern Univer
sity in a Tuesday night double-
header at Olsen Field.
The 5:30 p.m. twinbill will be the
last weekday action of the year for
the Aggies, who host T exas Chris
tian this weekend. After the TCU se
ries, A&M hosts Houston April 27-
28 and travels to Arkansas May 4-5
to close out the 1990 schedule.
A&M, despite losing two of three
games to Texas over the weekend, is
still in line for the Southwest Confer
ence Tournament May 17-19.
The"Aggies are 8-4 in SWC play,
good enough for third place behind
Texas (10-1) and Arkansas (11-2).
Houston (8-7) is battling Rice (7-7)
for fourth place in the four-team
SWC tournament. Baylor (4-11),
Texas Tech (4-12) and TCU (3-9)
have outside shots at the fourth spot.
Although the Aggies lost two in
Austin, they didn’t go down quietly.
Ronnie Allen battled Longhorn
ace Kirk Dressendorfer Friday, but
the A&M defense wasn’t very coop
erative. A mixup in coverage of a
Texas bunt led to a four-run ’Horn
fourth inning and Texas won 5-1.
In Satuday’s opener, Rich Rob
ertson held Texas in check and the
Aggies won 5-3. The win snapped a
10-game A&M losing streak at
Disch-Falk Field.
Pat Sweet pitched well in the
nightcap, but received little hitting
support as the Longhorns won 2-1.
A ninth inning David Lowery single
offSweet snapped a 1-1 tie.
Coach Mark Johnson said he was
pleased with the Aggie effort.
“Our players went over there and
put their game across the line,”
Johnson said. “I’m proud of this
group. They showed a lot of deter
Photo by Eric H. Roalson
Tim Holt slides into second base Saturday as the catcher. A&M lost the three-game series to
Texas’ Kyle Moody mishandles the throw from Texas, but hopes to bounce back Tuesday.
mination and although they are a
young group, they were not intim
idated.”
The losses dropped A&M’s season
mark to 38-11 while No. 6 Texas
climbed to 39-11.
TSU enters Tuesday’s twinbill
with a 13-27 record. However, one
Brent Gilbert
of those wins was an 8-7 decision
over the Rice Owls.
Johnson will send Brent Gilbert
and Bo Siberz to the mound Tues
day, but he exects to use several
pitchers.
Gilbert is 4-3 this season with a
5.63 earned run average. His last de-
Bo Siberz
cision was a 9-1 decision over Ste
phen F. Austin last Tuesday. Gilbert
worked three shutout innings in the
win.
Bo Siberz, a junior transfer from
Westark (Ark.) Community College,
has been used primarily as a relief
pitcher this year. In fact, only one of
his 13 appearnaces was a start. Si
berz is 2-1 with a 2.60 ERA in 27 in
nings of work.
A&M beat TSU last year 11-1 and
13-3, and leads the series 4-0. The
series started in 1987 and the closest
game was in 1988 when A&M won 8-
4.
Attendance is strong at Olsen
Field this season. Through 24 home
dates, 59,065 fans have been to the
park for an average of 2,461. But
the Aggies have drawn an average of
3,915 for the four SWG dates.
Looking forward to the TCU se
ries, Robertson likely will pitch the
second game of the series. When he
goes to the mound, he’ll have a
chance to break the A&M school re
cord for most strikeouts in a season.
Robertson, who has 91 strikeouts
in 72 innings this season, is currently
fourth on A&M’s career strikout list.
Clint Thomas, who’s now the Long
horn pitching coach, holds the re
cord with 109 in 1976.
Robertson is 9-0 on the season
with a 1.50 ERA.
Sports Editor Richard Tijerina 845-2688
Ryan still strong as
he nears big 3-0 -0
NEW YORK (AP) — If the chance
comes up this season, make sure to
catch Nolan Ryan’s victory tour.
Ryan is on the road to 300 career
wins and he stopped at Yankee Sta
dium over the weekend to pick up
No. 291.
After a homestand in Arlington,
his next stops are Kansas City, Chi
cago and Cleveland.
Watching Nolan Ryan pitch a
baseball game is like going to a mu
seum to see a Van Gogh, or to the
concert hall to hear a Mozart sym
phony.
First, Ryan catches your senses
and then your breath.
When Ryan is on the mound, his
tory is right there with him.
He has pitched in four decades,
and each of his 42 major-league re
cords seem to have a story to tell.
The 43-year-old Ryan has pitched
a record five no-hitters, yet none
may have been his best game.
“I still think one of the best games
I ever pitched was against Boston,”
Ryan said. “I retired the last 26 hit
ters in a row.
His last appearance at Yankee Sta
dium prior to Saturday was July 25,
1979, and that had a story, too.
“I hurt myself in the first inning,”
Ryan recalled. “I struck out two and
hurt my elbow on a pitch to Reggie
Jackson and that was my last pitch.”
Ryan’s marquee numbers are easy.
He is the all-time strikeout leader
with 5,084 and nine wins short of the
magic 300 mark.
Next on the strikeout list is Steve
Carlton with 4,136.
To put it in perspective, for a
pitcher starting out to reach Ryan’s
totals he would have to average 20
wins and 339 strikeouts for 15 sea
sons.
Like Van Gogh and Mozart, Ryan
had flaws in his youth, too.
The word of Ryan’s 99-mph heat
hit in 1966 when he struck out 272
batters in 183 innings while going
17-2 for Greenville, a New York
Mets farm club.
But he couldn’t find his control
with the Mets, walking 344 in 510 in
nings over parts of five seasons, and
kept putting his blistered fingers in
Of all the clubs I’ve
been with, this club has the
offensive potential to be the
best team I’ve ever played
on.”
—Nolan Ryan,
Rangers pitcher
pickle brine.
But Ryan did save a game in the
1969 World Series against Balti
more, his only championship ring.
The Mets traded him to Califor
nia in 1971 along with three minor
leaguers for inlielder Jim Fregosi,
and Ryan started his journey to Coo-
peistown while Fregosi prepared for
his retirement.
Despite his many records, Ryan’s
critics, only until recently, said he
was just a .500 pitcher (291-263).
“I think it’s the nature of the
teams I’ve played on,” Ryan said.
“Of all the clubs I’ve been with this
club has the offensive potential to be
the best team I’ve ever played on.”
After eight seasons and four no
hitters in California, Ryan spent
nine years in Houston before sign
ing as a free agent with the Texas
Rangers last year.
At 42, Ryan was 16-10 with a ma
jor-league high 301 strikeouts in
1989.
Five times he carried a no-hitter
into the eighth inning. Five times it
didn’t seem possible, either.
On opening day in Texas last
week, Ryan pitched five no-hit in
nings against Toronto and right
hander Todd Stottlemyre.
When Ryan broke into the majors
in 1966, Todd’s dad, Mel Stottle
myre, was pitching for the New York
Yankees.
It’s just another story on Ryan’s
road to 300.
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