Playing in a conference with thin margins hardly defined the inevitable bad weekend in SEC play for the Texas Longhorns as the Arkansas Razorbacks bludgeoned head coach Jim Schlossnagle’s program in a weekend sweep in Fayetteville as the home team outscored the visitors 28-9.
“There was no margin — we played horrible. There was no one swing by us that changes things when you give up as many free bases as we did as a pitching staff and defense,” Schlossnagle said in his weekly appearance on the Around the Horns podcast.
The “Dominate the Zone” approach from pitching coach Max Weiner went lacking for the Longhorns in walking 22 batters and hitting nine more as the Razorbacks also hit eight home runs at Baum-Walker Field, a small stadium that played even smaller with the wind blowing out, as evidenced by exit velocities in the low 90s that produced home runs.