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With a Tuesday night win over UT Arlington, the Bears (23-13, 6-9 Big 12) officially exceeded the win totals from the previous two seasons under Thomson (20 and 22, respectively). But after exploding for 18 runs on Saturday against Texas Tech, more than the team had scored in its previous six games combined, a 5-0 lead vanished on Sunday and the green and gold dropped their fourth Big 12 series.

Rolling into Sunday afternoon with their first Big 12 series win under their belt, Baylor baseball stumbled, allowing 10 runs in the first inning and falling 11-6 in the series finale against No. 23 Arizona at Hi Corbett Field in Tucson, Ariz.

After dropping the Friday and Saturday affairs of the first two Big 12 series against Kansas and Kansas State, Baylor salvaged both, scoring a combined 28 runs on Sunday’s series finale. In comparison, the Bears have been outscored 45-14 in the first two games of conference series’.

It only took one game for Baylor baseball’s pitching staff to dominate under first-year pitching coach Sean Snedeker. Earning the Opening Day start, Calder racked up a career-high 13 strikeouts — the most by a Baylor pitcher since 2011 — and allowed just one run on two hits in five innings of work en route to the Bears’ 10-3 win over Youngstown State.

With a brand new season comes a brand new style of fall ball for Thompson’s Bears. The green and gold will have three free and open-to-the-public scrimmages each week during the fall to showcase the team’s talent as each athlete competes for a starting position.