Texas State Pitcher Throws Vicious ‘HORNS DOWN’ After Upsetting No. 1 Texas To Avenge Trash Talk

• No. 1 Texas beat Texas State on Tuesday and talked a lot of smack.
• When Texas State beat No. 1 Texas on Wednesday, they one-upped the Longhorns in their smack talk.
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Texas and Texas State is the midweek baseball rivalry that we didn’t know we needed. The Bobcats and the Longhorns have a lot of bad blood.

The two teams met on Tuesday and Wednesday in San Marcos for a two-game home-and-home series. Both schools, located in San Marcos and Austin, are separated by about an hour, so the trips were easy.

What resulted from the non-conference series was a series of fireworks.

Texas State entered the two-game series at 10-2, on the heels of a weekend series upset of No. 11 Arizona. Texas entered as the top team in the country at 12-1.

In Game 1, at Texas State, the Bobcats jumped out to a 6-3 lead in the third inning but couldn’t hold on to the lead and lost 9-8 in a back-and-forth battle with a lot of chirping between dugouts. After recording the final out of the inning, Longhorns pitcher Aaron Nixon and a few other infield players proceeded to wave goodbye to the home team in the opposing dugout.

The goodbye wave clearly lit a fire within the Texas State program. They didn’t take too kindly to the move and the emotions were high on Wednesday.

In Game 2, at Texas, the Longhorns flipped the script. After taking a 3-0 lead in the second inning, they went on to lose 6-4.

The final out of the game was intense.

With two outs and two runners on, 6-foot-3, 225-pound slugger Ivan Melendez stepped into the box and worked a 3-2 count. However, he got completely frozen by the payoff pitch and strike three was called to end the game.

After upsetting the No. 1 team in the nation on their own field, Bobcats pitcher Tristan Stivors looked to the Texas dugout and threw a vicious ‘Horns Down’ at the opponents who were so loud in their win on Tuesday.

Stivors’ gesture was absolutely savage and well deserved. The Longhorns waved goodbye on Tuesday and the Bobcats one-upped the nation’s top team on Wednesday. This is what makes college baseball great.