Aggies scored a 1st-round knockdown but Texas baseball is far from out | Golden
Jim Schlossnagle's first game back in College Station didn't go according to plan but Texas baseball can still win this series after the 9-8 loss. Here's why.
Friday was the first round of a heavyweight fight and Texas baseball coach Jim Schlossnagle must have felt like Rocky walking into a Moscow ring to face Ivan Drago. Texas A&M’s Blue Bell Park was anything but sweet and delicious in his first game there since leaving his College Station post to take the job at Texas less than two days after finishing as the College World Series runner-up two summers ago. Texas A&M fans heckle Texas Longhorns head coach Jim Schlossnagle during the Lone Star Showdown at Blue Bell Park on Friday, April 10, 2026 in College Station, Texas.
(Aaron E. Martinez/Austin American-Statesman) Schlossnagle has done a great job of keeping this thing about baseball over the last couple of seasons and leaving the exterior stuff to people like yours truly but the spectacle was something to behold. MORE CED: How a natty eluded Vic Schaefer, Madison Booker and Texas basketball It’s unlike any baseball environment on Earth with the chants emanating from the stands and the bubbles flying around.
Texas handled itself well but the bloodthirsty hosts got what they wanted and that was Schloss’ head on a figurative platter. His No. 2 Texas Longhorns suffered a 9-8 knockdown in the opening round but this slugfest promises to go the distance.
Sign up for Ced’s Corner Sign up for Cedric Golden’s newsletter for hot takes and expert analysis each Tuesday on Texas Longhorns football and beyond. It's called Ced’s Corner, from the mind of the American-Statesman’s resident sports columnist, the 2025 NSMA Texas Sportswriter of the Year. The loss reads just like it happened — q tightly contested back-and-forth volley of body blows that came down to the first team that blinked at crunch time.
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