Late on Tuesday night, Texas baseball player Carson Tinney hit the 36th home run of his collegiate career.

For Tinney, that 463-foot bomb in the ninth inning at UFCU Disch-Falk Field off Sam Houston reliever Noah Kendrick was different. It was different from the baseball he hit 400 feet in the third inning off a different Sam Houston pitcher. It was different from the 14 homers he had hit for Texas ahead of Tuesday's game. And it was different from the 20 homers that he had hit over two seasons at Notre Dame.

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That homer was a two-run shot that lifted Texas to a 15-14 win over the visiting Bearkats and was the first walk-off homer that Tinney has hit in his three years of college. Afterwards, Tinney also couldn't recall a walk-off blast that he had hit in high school.

"(It was) great for Carson, especially given his at-bat before," Texas coach Jim Schlossnagle said. "Maybe the weirdest at-bat that I've seen him have since he's been here. It was great that he kind of re-centered himself and was ready for the next at-at."

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Now about the "weirdest at-bat" of Tinney's Texas tenure. With Texas trailing 12-11, Tinney was sent to the plate to lead off UT's half of the eighth inning.

With Mason Murphy on the mound, Tinney faced three pitches. On the first pitch, the right-handed Tinney swung and sprayed a foul ball into the Sam Houston dugout on the third-base side of UFCU Disch-Falk Field. On the second pitch, Tinney once again had the Bearkats ducking for covering their own dugout. After that second foul ball, Sam Houston pitcher Connor Mondey jokingly raised his arms in despair from the stairs of the visitor's dugout.

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Tinney struck out on the third pitch he saw from Murphy. Tinney told reporters that the foul balls were a result of "swinging at the wrong pitches." He also admitted that he got into his own head after worrying that his first foul ball might have injured a Bearkat, but a chat with Texas assistant coach Troy Tulowitzki helped settle his nerves.

"He was just letting me know that I can go out there, I can use time. If I need a second, I can take it," Tinney said. "But also, just like the maturity aspect of things. Like, that's gonna happen. There's going to be times where I might hit a foul ball down the line and it might injure a fan, unfortunately, but that's just part of the game. So being able to reset and refocus (was key)."

That pep talk between Tinney, a Colorado native, and Tulowitzki, who rose to  prominence as an all-star shortstop for the Colorado Rockies, set the stage for some late-game heroics. Texas entered the ninth inning facing a 14-12 deficit, but the Longhorns chipped into that lead with Aiden Robbins' RBI single. With Robbins on first base and one out, Tinney turned a Kendrick slider into a souvenir for a fan that stuck around for a four-hour game that featured seven home runs and a six-run lead for the Bearkats.

"My approach was really just to put the barrel on the ball," Tinney said. "I wanted to reconnect with my plan, which was putting the barrel on the ball. They threw me two (sliders) in a row, and I got a good barrel to it."

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Tinney is normally UT's catcher but he was used as a designated hitter in Tuesday's midweek game. He went 2-for-4 against the Bearkats with two homers and two drawn walks. He scored four times and drove in three runs.

For the season, Tinney is hitting .338. His 16 home runs rank second among the Longhorns behind just Robbins' 18, which are tied for the eighth-most in a single season at Texas.