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Baseball is a game of streaks — losing streaks and hitting streaks, slumps on the mound or at the plate, maybe even an unusually high number of consecutive wins. Baylor baseball has learned a thing or two about that when looking back on the 2012 season and a craze that stormed through Waco: “Feed the beaver.”

No. 25 Baylor baseball was four outs away from a no-hitter as it improved to 4-0 on the season, defeating the No. 15 TCU Horned Frogs Tuesday by a score of 7-1 in front of a crowd of nearly 2,800 at Baylor Ballpark.

The Baylor baseball team kicked off its season this past weekend with a three-game sweep of the Oral Roberts Golden Eagles. This marks Baylor’s first three-game sweep in nearly two years. The Bears are now ranked No. 25 by Baseball America.

Baylor sophomore Josh Turley turned in a strong performance on the mound Friday night, but it was not enough following Oklahoma’s ninth-inning comeback as the Sooners topped the Bears, 5-4.

Baylor baseball saw a promising two-run lead slip away as Sam Houston State tied it and finished their come-from-behind 3-2 win with a walk-off single in the bottom of the 10th Tuesday in Huntsville.

Baylor baseball continues its 14-game homestand as it battles Kansas State this weekend in the Bears’ second conference series of the season. Coach Steve Smith said he hopes to see more of what has brought the Bears to a 14-7 record.

Senior Chris Slater took advantage of a rare chance at redemption to give Baylor baseball an 11th inning, 7-6 win over Florida International Tuesday night.

No. 16 ranked baseball dropped its season opener Friday as Oral Roberts pounced on Baylor’s pitching and the Bears offense sputtered.

Every spring brings Baylor Baseball new faces, new obstacles and new questions. Not every season, however, brings with it a question of who will don the catcher’s mask.

The No. 16 ranked baseball squad returns to the diamond today with new hitters, pitchers and potentially game-morphing rule changes.