Texas Stunned: Blown Lead Sparks Shocking 9-7 Defeat at Houston
But after the last several weeks, it’s not clear how big of a margin is actually secure with a bullpen that is suddenly in chaos as the back end has melted down with multiple poor appearances from two of the experienced, high-leverage arms — Higgins and Burns, who are both struggling to throw strikes and are giving up big hits when they do manage to find the zone.
The bottom line is that Texas has lost two straight midweek games to teams with extremely mediocre records in addition to blowing consecutive Friday night leads in conference play. So there’s mounting concern heading into the Red River Showdown that begins on Thursday against No. 8 Oklahoma in Austin, exacerbated by a shaky offense that doesn’t feature many options for Schlossnagle with the injury to sophomore outfielder Jonah Williams and the 2025 MLB Draft defections of Jack Moroknek and Kaleb Freeman.



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