on the bench tonight as wayne graham has gotten to that point to see what can we do to get rick hague out of his funk. we talked about it earlier. if you're just now joining us. everyone goes through that. we're going to let them play the way out of it. and then l we'll sit him on the bench and watching the ball game in any way help. interesting to see if he's in the starting lineup tomorrow night. >> steve: the guy goes out there day after day. gets more timid and defensive. sit him down. make he gets mad. that's the worst case scenario. i'm going to go out there on my own time. if a guy has trouble throwing. you just go out there and let it go. whatever happens, happens. you don't want to go out. >> matt: count now 2-1 to comerota. wayne graham remains confident that this team will get the shift on the right track that they will loosen up and start playing and reach the expectation level which is large. this is team that is ranked in the, finished in the top ten a year ago. and cannot get the ball out of the glove. that will be a stolen base. >> steve: that is a great pitch to run.

you have rick hague who has had trouble playing position but is your star on the national team.m out of the lineup. first ball hit the com are da. >> com com rot that. hit him. deeper into his body. >> matt: chris wallace. start things off. only .269. he says. he should have ten home runs by now. >> steve: they were probably counting on that right now. he is starting to heat up a little bit. one of those guys that can handle the bat a little bit too. he has little bit of power but can go to the opposite way. >> matt: he is south of siper texas. so many of the ballplayers right here until metro houston. pick off move got him. easy picking. nice move by wall to pick him off. two down in the inning. >> steve: great move by wall. looked like presley was going on the first move. he moves toward the ball to create a little bit of a lane to throw in. a lot of times first bases will stand with they are. he did a nice job of moving. >> matt: that's the third team leading pick off. wall led the staff in innings pitched last year with 94 and strikeouts as 77 starts with 15 and that was his

the co thought just trying to let rick see it from a different angle. >> matt: rathjen. hague preseason all conference usa hit nine home runs. 57 rbi a year ago. playing shortstop this year having committed already 14 errors. 0-1 pitch. backed him off the plate. fast ball 1-1. >> steve: good night is somehowing a little bit of that streak. not letting guys take that big hack again. that's the way you pitch though. and probably would have had another runner safe at first base. kelso showing why he is a field general out there. making good decisions. held his position there even when the runner was stealing. made a good throw to first base. made sure one out out. >> matt: abe gonzales primarily a pitcher for this rice team. 2-15 on the season. .167 with no homers and rbist. >> steve: he has nine appearances of the season. they have a lot of good athletes in this tournament. may have feel very good with him as first base. >> matt: he's the other domino that falls. someone has to play first. it's gonzales tonight. 1-1 pitch. and it's a 2-1 to abe gonzales. >> steve: finish up that