Carson Tinney hits walk-off home run as No. 4 Texas beats Sam Houston, 15-14

The Sam Houston Bearkats aren’t a . 500 team overall, much less in Conference USA, but midweek games aren’t the same as a weekend series, and the No. 4 Texas Longhorns found themselves down big early before recovering for a 15-14 win at UFCU Disch-Falk Field on Tuesday ended by junior catcher Carson Tinney’s walk-off, two-run home run in the bottom of the ninth.

An on 0-1 breaking ball without much bite, Tinney laced a laser beam over the wall behind the visitor’s bullpen to finalize a comeback for the Horns that required overcoming multiple deficits against the nation’s No. 170 in the RPI. the magic moment 🤘 #HookEm | @carson_tinney pic.

twitter. com/pEOmTkt3Mf — Texas Baseball (@TexasBaseball) April 29, 2026 The second home run of the game by Tinney was also the fourth by Texas, which also took advantage of 10 walks by Sam Houston to recover from a 3-0 margin after the first inning and an 8-2 margin after the third inning to avoid a bad loss. As head coach Jim Schlossnagle tries to build up freshman right-hander Michael Winter for the postseason after a long absence due to illness, the power-armed Kansas product continued to struggle in his second career start.

Two weeks ago, when Winter failed to record an out while allowing four earned runs on three hits against Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, Schlossnagle took the blame for pitching Winter on short rest in the wake of his return to the mound three days prior. But Tuesday’s struggles were perhaps indicative of larger issues with Winter regaining his command — against the Bearkats, Winter retired the leadoff batter before hanging an 0-2 breaking ball that turned into a double into right center, walked the next batter on four pitches, hit a batter, threw a wild pitch, and gave up an infield single before his removal from the game. When junior right-hander Hudson Hamilton came on, he compounded the issues with a throwing error on a pickoff attempt at third, but escaped the inning without further damage by striking out the next two batters.