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Texas Tech Baseball Blows Past Missouri 10-2
March 31, 2001 | Baseball
March 31, 2001
COLUMBIA, Mo. - After committing four costly errors in Friday's game against Missouri, the Red Raider defense responded with a perfect performance and the offense was equally impressive as Texas Tech handed the Tigers a 10-2 loss before 380 fans at Taylor Stadium on Saturday.
Junior Tyler Carson tallied his first three-hit performance of his career and hit a three-run home run in the top of the ninth to lead the Red Raider offense. With the win, Texas Tech improved to 22-13 overall and moved to .500 in the Big 12 (7-7) while Missouri fell to 18-11-1 overall and 6-8 in the league.
Texas Tech opened up the scoring in the top of the third inning with four runs off RBI by Gera Alvarez, Nick Blankenship, Kerry Hodges and Stephen Leist. Texas Tech got three hits in the inning and was able to capitalize on two Missouri errors.
Missouri got back in the game in its half of the third when Jon Williams hit a two-run homer over the right field fence to pull within two. The two-run bomb by Williams snapped an 18-inning scoreless streak by Tech senior pitcher Brandon Roberson.
The two runs in third would be all that Texas Tech would allow Missouri as the Tech pitching staff held the Tiger offense scoreless over the next six innings and allowed just two hits during that stretch.
Texas Tech added single runs in the fifth and eighth innings off an RBI ground out by Bryon Smith and an RBI double by Tyler Carson respectively. Tyler Carson came through for the Red Raiders in the top of the ninth by hitting a three-run homer over the right field wall to give Tech a 10-2 lead going into the bottom of the ninth. Carson's three-run homer was part of a four-run inning by the Red Raiders.
Senior right-handed pitcher Brandon Roberson (6-3) picked up his sixth win of the season while Mitch Kiler (1-2) suffered his second loss of the year. Texas Tech and Missouri will the play the rubber match of the series at 1 p.m. on Sunday at Taylor Stadium/Simmons Field in Columbia.
