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Texas Tech Baseball Blows Past TCU 9-4
April 11, 2001 | Baseball
April 11, 2001
LUBBOCK, Texas - The Texas Tech baseball team used 25-35 mph wind gusts to crank out nine runs on 10 hits to edge TCU 9-4 on Wednesday afternoon at Dan Law Field. With the win, Texas Tech improved to 27-14 on the season while TCU dropped to 22-16.
Senior hurler Matt Harbin (2-1) pitched 6 1/3 quality innings to keep the Horned Frogs off track for most of the game and picked up his second win of the season. Tech jumped on the board in the bottom of the first when Nick Blankenship hit an RBI sacrifice fly to right field that plated Jason Rainey to put the Red Raiders ahead 1-0. Junior Austin Cranford plated another run in the bottom of the second when he hit a double to left center field that pushed Tyler Carson home.
Tech scored two runs in the bottom of the third and fourth innings to give the Red Raiders a 6-1 lead. TCU battled back in the seventh and eighth innings scoring three runs to pull within two. Senior closer Blake McGinley came in to relieve Mike Larsen in the eighth with no outs and two Horned Frog runners on base and retired the next five batters to end TCU's scoring threat and picked up his seventh save of the season in the process.
Texas Tech was led by Austin Cranford and Tyler Carson who each went 2 for 4 at the plate and put up a combined two RBI. TCU was led by Erick Macha who went 3 for 4 with two runs scored. Patrick Newburn suffered the loss for TCU and fell to 2-1 on the season.
Texas Tech will face arch-rival Texas A&M this weekend at Dan Law Field with the first pitch coming on Friday night at 7 p.m. Texas Tech head basketball coaches Marsha Sharp and Bob Knight will throw out the ceremonial first pitches on Friday night.
