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Red Raiders Win First Game At Kansas
April 21, 2000 | Baseball
April 21, 2000
The Texas Tech Red Raiders won their fourth straight game Friday night in Lawrence, Kansas defeating the Jayhawks, 9-4. With the win, the Red Raiders remained in a tie for third place in the Big 12 with Nebraska. Left-hander Blake McGinley won his fourth game of the year out of the bullpen while Tech scored the nine runs on 13 hits.
In the first inning, both teams scored two runs apiece. Scott Holzhauer and Shaun Larkin started the game by getting hit by a pitch followed by a Marco Cunningham single to load the bases for Texas Tech. The clean-up hitter, Chaz Eiguren, walked to give Tech the early lead. The second run of the inning for the Red Raiders came on a sacrifice fly by Cory Sellars that scored Larkin.
The Jayhawks evened the score in the bottom half of the first on three hits off Tech starter J.J. Newman. The Red Raiders answered in the top of the second with a pair of runs on three hits and an error. Kansas tied the game at 4-4 in the bottom of the fifth with back-to-back doubles.
Tech broke the tie in their next at bat with two runs to make the score 6-4. The Red Raiders scored on a one-run single by Cunningham and a balk by Kansas pitcher Jeff Davis that scored Larkin. Tech added two more runs in the eighth and one in the ninth to finish the game at 9-4.
In the eighth, Eiguren blasted a two-run homer to left to score Cunningham. In the ninth, Eric McLamore scored on a sacrifice fly by Holzhauer. Holzhauer's sacrifice fly was Tech's 33rd of the season. The Red Raiders need just one more to tie the single-season school record.
McGinley earned his fourth win of the season with 4.1 scoreless innings out of the bullpen. He allowed five hits and struck out five while walking none. Starter J.J. Newman went 4.2 innings allowing four runs on four hits, a walk and six strikeouts.
The second game of the series will be on Saturday at 2 p.m. The game will be televised live on College Sports Southwest and Cox Cablevision in Lubbock will carry the game on Channel 14. Texas Tech is now 26-18 on the season and 14-8 in the Big 12.
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