Baylor baseball earned its first series sweep of the season against defending Ohio Valley Conference champ Austin Peay State University after winning 4-2 Friday, 15-1 Saturday and 12-1 Sunday. All three games exposed APSU’s weaknesses.
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It has all been about the wins for head coach Steve Smith. He helped make Baylor baseball into a Big 12 powerhouse. Smith is in the middle of his 20th season with the Bears, but this season marks a special new experience for him— coaching his two sons at Baylor.
Junior right-handed pitcher Ryan Smith and freshman first baseman Case Smith are both members of Baylor’s baseball team and are coached by their father at the collegiate level.
The Baylor Bears have been on a hot streak recently, riding a five-game winning streak and coming out as the victors in 14 of their last 19 contests.
The Bears look to continue the winning trend this weekend when they travel to Lawrence for a three-game series against the Kansas Jayhawks.
The Jayhawks are sitting in fifth place in the Big 12 with a 9-9 conference record and are 27-18 overall.
At one point this season, the Baylor baseball team was struggling with an 11-15 overall record and a 1-3 record in the Big 12. The outlook for the remainder of the season certainly did not seem optimistic, but a Baylor team with a history of success showed resiliency and is now in the hunt to defend its Big 12 Championship.
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The Baylor Bears defeated UT Arlington 6-4 Tuesday night at Clay Gould Ballpark to move to a season-high five games over .500 with a 25-20 overall record.
Freshman left-handed pitcher Sterling Wynn started on the mound for the Baylor Bears. Wynn has a 5.84 ERA this season and has a 0-1 record. This was only Wynn’s ninth appearance of the season and his eighth start of the season. Wynn has been battling a blister on his pitching hand that has kept him off the mound.
The Baylor baseball team swept the Texas Longhorns over the weekend by winning all three games over the weekend.
“It’s always good to win and always good to win at home,” senior shortstop Jake Miller said. “We’ve got to take advantage of home field advantage. It’s huge and now that we’ve got a good winning streak going and with two road series, hopefully we can take advantage of that.”
The Baylor baseball team capped off a three-game sweep against the Texas Longhorns with a 5-2 win Sunday afternoon at Baylor Ballpark. For the last home Big 12 series, the Baylor seniors went out with a bang by sweeping Texas.
Senior shortstop Jake Miller was 2-4 and scored a run. Senior third baseman Cal Towey had two RBIs and was also 2-4. Senior right fielder Nathan Orf was 1-3 with a RBI as well.
The Baylor Bears defeated the Texas Longhorns 1-0 Saturday night at Baylor Ballpark and are looking to go for the three-game series sweep in tomorrow’s matinee game.
Sophomore starting right-handed pitcher Austin Stone took the mound for the Bears and pitched six scoreless frames and only allowed four hits. Stone also struck out a career-high 10 batters, which is also the most strikeouts that any Baylor pitcher has had so far this year. Stone was in complete control and only yielded three base on balls.
The Baylor Bears took advantage of four errors from the Texas Longhorns to walk away with a 6-2 victory in the first of the three-game weekend series Friday night.
The Baylor Bears host the Texas Longhorns this weekend for the last home Big 12 Conference baseball series of the season. The Bears are 21-20 overall and 8-6 in Big 12 play.
The Bears are currently fourth in the Big 12 behind Oklahoma, Kansas and Kansas State.
The Baylor baseball team earned a come-from-behind 9-5 road victory over the Dallas Baptist Patriots on Tuesday night at Patriot Field. The Bears have now won six straight games against DBU.
The win bumps Baylor’s overall record to 21-20 and gives Baylor momentum heading into this weekend’s showdown series against the Texas Longhorns at Baylor Ballpark.
The Baylor Bears lost a weekend series to TCU in Fort Worth two games to one. The Baylor baseball team was victorious 3-2 in the first game on Friday night and then lost 2-1 in 15 innings on Saturday before losing a close 5-4 contest on Sunday.
The Baylor Bears are just a half game out of first place in the Big 12 with a 7-4 conference record and a 19-18 overall record. Baylor travels north to Fort Worth this weekend for a crucial three-game weekend series against the TCU Horned Frogs.
The Baylor Bears lost 3-0 to the Texas State Bobcats on Tuesday in San Marcos. The Bears are now 19-18 on the season. The loss drops the Bears record to 5-2 against teams from the Western Athletic Conference this season. With the win, the Bobcats are now 16-20 overall on the year.
The Baylor Bears earned a series victory over the No. 8 Oklahoma Sooners this weekend by winning two of three games. The series victory gives the Bears a 19-17 overall record and a 7-4 Big 12 Conference record.
The Baylor Bears defeated the No. 8 Oklahoma Sooners 12-10 on Sunday and won the series overall, two games to one. The Bears fell behind 9-4 and then scored eight runs total over the last two innings to earn the victory and to capture a crucial Big 12 series victory.
In a classic pitching duel filled with late heroics, the Baylor Bears defeated the No. 8 Oklahoma Sooners 2-1 on Friday night. With the game tied 1-1 in the bottom of the ninth inning, Baylor’s first batter up at the plate, senior third baseman Cal Towey, hit a fastball deep to right field and the ball cleared the fence for an instant walk-off 2-1 win for the Bears.
The No. 8 Oklahoma Sooners head to Waco for a three-game weekend series against the Baylor Bears. The Bears are 17-16 overall and are 5-3 in conference play. The Sooners, on the other hand, are 27-6 on the year and have posted a 7-2 record in Big 12 play.
The Baylor Bears baseball team experienced unprecedented success last season by posting a 49-17 record. Even though it is still early in the season, this year’s Baylor team has a 17-16 record on the diamond and is already one loss away from equaling last season’s total.
The Baylor Bears defeated UT Arlington on Tuesday night 14-4 at Baylor Ballpark. The win gives the Bears a winning record of 17-16.
Offensively, the Bears racked up 21 hits as a team and capitalized on a seven-run sixth inning to go on to win by the 10-run rule. The Bears were held scoreless before the offense suddenly caught fire in the sixth, seventh and eighth innings.
The Baylor Bears extended their winning streak to three games after defeating the Dallas Baptist Patriots 6-1 Wednesday night.
While Baylor’s three pitchers combined for just four strikeouts, they only gave up one run. Junior left-handed pitcher Doug Ashby closed the game and didn’t allow a hit in the 2.2 innings he pitched.
The Baylor baseball team starts its first Big 12 Conference home stand this weekend when it hosts the Kansas State Wildcats for a three-game series starting on Thursday night. The series against the Wildcats will be the first three home games in an 11-game home stand for the Bears.
“We’ve been trying to piece each game together, trying to string together a couple of wins,” junior right-handed pitcher Dillon Newman said. “Maybe this home series will allow us to do that.”
The Baylor Bears lost on the road Tuesday night to the University of Texas at San Antonio, 5-3 and drop to 11-14 on the season.
The UTSA Roadrunners started the bottom of the first inning with a leadoff home run from senior outfielder Daniel Rockett to take an early 1-0 lead.
Baylor baseball split a road series with No. 20 Oklahoma State over the weekend. The Bears fell in game one on Friday 5-0 and then won in extra innings 5-3 on Saturday. Game three was scheduled for Sunday but was cancelled due to inclement weather. The Bears are 11-13 overall and 1-1 in the Big 12 Conference.
The Baylor baseball team opens up Big 12 Conference play on the road in a three-game weekend series against the No. 20 Oklahoma State Cowboys. The Bears will take on the Cowboys on Friday, Saturday and Sunday at Allie P. Reynolds Stadium in Stillwater.
The Baylor men’s baseball team had been on a slide, losing six out of its last eight games, but senior outfielder Nathan Orf and junior right-handed-pitcher Josh Michalec led the Bears to a 4-1 victory over the Sam Houston State Bearkats to get the Bears their first road victory of the season.
The Baylor Bears move to 9-12 on the year after losing to the Sam Houston State Bearkats on Tuesday night, 4-2. Despite a five-inning shutout pitching performance from senior lefty Crayton Bare, the Bears narrowly fell to the Bearkats.
The Baylor Bears host Illinois this weekend for a three-game series. Illinois and Baylor will square off today at 6:35 p.m. and then Saturday the two teams will meet for a double-header. Game one on Saturday is at 2:05 p.m., and the back end of the double-header is scheduled to start at 6:35 p.m. at Baylor Ballpark.
The Baylor Bears defeated Louisiana Tech in walk-off fashion 5-4 on Wednesday night. In the bottom of the ninth, the Bears were trailing Louisiana Tech 3-4 and scored two runs in the frame to come away with the 5-4 victory.
