Baylor baseball was in the running for its third Big 12 series of the year before a disastrous five-run top of the seventh inning set up by a throwing error allowed Arizona State to skate away with an 8-6 win Sunday afternoon at Baylor Ballpark.
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Since welcoming a new rally mascot into the dugout, Baylor baseball hasn’t lost at Baylor Ballpark and will have a chance to keep that streak going with playoff hopes on the line as it opens a seven-game homestand against Arizona State at 6:30 p.m. Friday.
Behind 5 2/3 innings of scoreless relief from redshirt sophomore right-handed pitcher Lucas Davenport and sixth-year senior Gabe Craig, Baylor baseball salvaged the series finale against No. 23 TCU with a 6-3 win Sunday afternoon at Lupton Stadium in Fort Worth.
For the first time this season, Baylor baseball is hitting the road on the heels of a homestand with a losing record.
For the first time in 338 days, sophomore left-handed pitcher Mason Green trotted out of the Baylor baseball dugout and started for the green and gold in Tuesday night’s 6-2 loss against Texas State at Baylor Ballpark.
Riding high behind head coach Mitch Thompson’s first series win over a ranked opponent and a walk-off home run on Tuesday, Baylor baseball is finding ways to win games in different ways.
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’.
On the first pitch of the top of the seventh inning, Baylor baseball freshman third baseman Pearson Riebock smashed a fly ball to right-center field. Primed to trot around the bases for the first time in his career, No. 8 Oregon State junior right fielder Easton Talt had other plans.
Staring down two ranked teams and another power conference squad, Baylor baseball looks to turn some heads, bringing the Big 12’s best .342 batting average and 2.15 ERA into the Amegy Bank College Baseball Series at Globe Life Field in Arlington.
For just the third time since 2013, Baylor baseball is off to a 4-0 start. The team looks to keep its winning ways going against Gonzaga for a three-game weekend series at Baylor Ballpark.
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.
Very few things top Opening Day for Baylor baseball head coach Mitch Thompson. With a fresh slate, Thompson and the Bears are hungry for the opportunity to see nine months of hard work and long nights pay off.
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.
The Baylor bats showed up to play, but the baseball team came up empty in the end, 9-8, against Abilene Christian University on Tuesday at Crutcher Scott Field in Abilene.
For four years, number 26 has jogged onto the field out of the bullpen for Baylor baseball. Even in games he doesn’t take the mound; in section 107 at Baylor Ballpark, there’s a cheering section, each wearing a jersey with the number 26 and name “Oliver” across the back.
After recording the first two road wins of the year last week, Baylor baseball was overwhelmed coming back home against Tarleton State University, as it fell by a score of 6-2 Tuesday afternoon at Baylor Ballpark.
Baylor baseball looked to break a four-game skid in Lawrence, Kan., against University of Kansas, but the Bears were outscored 30-14 over the weekend and fell in all three games to the Jayhawks at Hoglund Ballpark.
While Baylor baseball’s pitching arms kept the Bears in the game, struggles at the plate and leaving 14 runners on base plagued the green and gold, as it fell 5-2 in 11 innings to Abilene Christian University on Tuesday night at Baylor Ballpark.
When it rains, it pours. Baylor baseball has found its groove, and even a rain delay couldn’t stop the scorching hot Bears, as they took down Sam Houston State University, 7-6, Tuesday night at Baylor Ballpark.
Coming off a winless weekend, Baylor baseball looked to get back in the win column against Rice University on Tuesday at Baylor Ballpark. The green and gold did exactly that by rallying at the plate and keeping the Owls off the scoreboard to win 6-0.
Baylor baseball (4-8) went 2-2 in the first four game series of the year against Youngstown State University (3-9) at Baylor Ballpark this weekend. Head coach Mitch Thompson and the Bears were helped by strong pitching and a season high 47 strikeouts by the pitching staff during the series.