Kansas switched gears for the second inning and showed off the small-ball skills. Tinsley followed and worked a 3-1 count before turning on an inside fastball and launching it 350 feet down the right-field line for the second dinger of his career and give KU the early lead, 2-0. Junior second baseman Colby Wright wore his NCAA-leading ninth hit-by-pitch to get on with two outs. The Jayhawks took a page out of their book from last night and hung a two-spot on the scoreboard in the first inning. “It got us out of trouble without them scoring and held them at bay after we had the 9-1 lead.”
“We turned four double plays which were the difference in the ballgame,” Price said. That was the most double plays turned by a Kansas team since April 29, 2007, when KU accomplished the same feat at Oklahoma. Kansas erased many of those runners thanks to turning four double plays, three to end the inning. We walked 13 and hit one batter – there were a lot of runners left on base.” “We had a couple of guys that couldn’t make it that long. “The plan going into the game was to try to go two innings (on the mound) at a time,” Price said. Gilbert’s effectiveness earned him his first career win as a Jayhawk. KU then turned it over to freshman Ryan Ralston (1.1 IP), sophomore lefty Jeremy Kravetz (1.0 IP), junior righty Sam Gilbert (2.0 IP), freshman righty Brandon Johnson (0.0 IP), before Villines entered the game in the seventh. The more important storyline on the day, however, was with a struggling pitching staff, Kansas scrapped together a win using six different pitchers, relying on sophomore closer Stephen Villines to toss the final three innings for his third save on the season.įreshman lefty Ryan Jackson earned his first-career start and lasted one and two-third innings.
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Senior first baseman Blair Beck and sophomore catcher Michael Tinsley each blasted a home run with Tinsley finishing the day with two RBIs and two runs scored, while taking two free passes. Senior shortstop Justin Protacio led all hitters with three base knocks. To quote coach Self, ‘we found a way to win an ugly one.'” “After our performance yesterday, we needed to find a way to win, whether it was a low scoring game or a high scoring game. “It was a huge day for us,” head coach Ritch Price said. The Jayhawks (5-8) pounded out 12 hits, four extra-base hits, two home runs and scored nine runs off a Grand Canyon (10-4) club that is off to one of the hottest starts in program history. –After a tough loss to the Antelopes a day ago, the Kansas baseball team regrouped and relied on six pitchers and its offense to scrap out a 9-5 win over GCU Wednesday afternoon at Brazell Stadium. I’m always disappointed that people harp on the past and can’t see me for who I am now.PHOENIX, Ariz. I try now to be the best father to my children, the best husband to my wife, the best person I can be to everyone who comes around me. But that was 40 years ago, for God’s sake. “I regret that I wasn’t with them more,” he says. And though Rick and several of his sons later claimed that the article exaggerated his failures, Rick is remorseful about the missed opportunities with his older children.
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A 1991 story in SI entitled Daddy Dearest detailed Rick’s shortcomings as a father to his five children with his first wife, Pam-they divorced in 1980-particularly his four sons (Scooter, Jon, Brent and Drew), each of whom played professional basketball. “So I decided I’d put everything I had into raising him.”įor Rick, raising Canyon would be a kind of redemption. “Because I was older when I had him, I knew I would only have one child,” she says.
But after the 1996 Olympics she decided she wanted to switch roles with her husband. Rick was a stay-at-home dad for Canyon’s first two years as Lynn traveled the world for USA Basketball. He also makes five in a row, underhanded. Canyon, who comes off the bench but is the -second-leading- scorer for a No. 12 Florida team likely to make the NCAA tournament for the first time since 2014, subs in for his father at the line. Even at 72, Rick Barry looks every bit the Hall of Famer he is. He sinks the final one with his eyes shut. “You don’t have to worry about any of those things,” Rick says before reeling off five underhanded swishes in a row. “You haven’t shot in a few months,” she says. While the photographer assembles his gear, Lynn leads Rick to the charity stripe. It’s an early evening in late January, and Rick and Lynn Barry have walked onto the court at Florida’s Stephen C. O’Connell Center for a photo shoot with their son, 6' 6" Canyon, a senior guard with the Gators. And he’s right where you’d expect to find him-at the free throw line.
Like many stories about the Barry basketball family, this one begins with Rick.
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