Friday, April 8
Lubbock, TX
6:30 p.m. CT
Texas Tech Athletics
25-8, 5-2
6
vs
3
Kansas State
15-14, 1-6
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
R
H
E
Kansas State
0
0
0
0
0
3
0
0
0
3
8
2
Texas Tech
0
1
0
0
0
4
1
0
X
6
8
1
No. 4 Tech powers past K-State
April 08, 2022 | Baseball
LUBBOCK, Texas – Junior Andrew Morris set the stage for No. 4 Texas Tech to walk away with a 6-3 win against Kansas State on Friday night at Rip Griffin Park. Morris fanned nine batters (watch), and walked zero, in seven innings of work before the bullpen took over to earn the Red Raiders its 25th win of the season in front of a sold-out crowd.
The Red Raiders (25-8, 5-2) clung to a 1-0 lead late into the game. Cole Stilwell provided a solo home run (watch) in the second inning, his seventh dinger of the season, for Tech's initial lead. That 1-0 lead lasted until the top of the sixth.
In the top of the sixth, K-State (15-14, 1-6) loaded the bases with its first three batters on a pair of singles and a hit-by-pitch. Morris produced a line-out, and KSU used a sacrifice fly to tie the game next, 1-1, but it was the second out. Morris nearly came out of the inning without much damage, but a timely two-out, two-strike single through the left side scored a pair and put the Red Raiders behind, 3-1.
Texas Tech answered the bell the next half inning, after being limited to one run and three hits in the first five innings, the Red Raiders set up Owen Washburn with the bases loaded and one out in the sixth and that's when the offense begin to fly. Ty Coleman and Stilwell logged a pair of singles and Kurt Wilson drew a walk to set up Washburn.
Washburn cleared the bases (watch) with his sixth double of the season to quickly erase the Wildcats' lead and put the Red Raiders in front, 4-3. Dalton Porter, who picked up his 12th start this season, followed with a run-scoring double (watch) to add to the Red Raiders' lead, pushing them in front by two, 5-3.
Tech took advantage of a pair of Wildcat errors in the seventh to add an insurance run. Coleman used a fielding error to get on base and came around to score aided by a throwing error to first on a base hit logged by Wilson.
Derek Bridges used six pitches to earn three outs in the eighth while Trendan Parish entered in the ninth to earn his sixth save of the season.
Stilwell, Wilson and Washburn each had a pair of base hits to lead Tech on Friday night.
Quotable
Head Coach Tim Tadlock
On snapping its three-game losing skid and seeing the bats and pitching coming together ...
"It's better than the alternative for sure. To me, every baseball game is enjoyable if you sit back and enjoy it and you watch the intricacies, the small things in a game that you can appreciate if you know the game well enough. There were some things in tonight's game that were very enjoyable, and obviously it's a lot more enjoyable when you come out on the right side of it."
The Red Raiders (25-8, 5-2) clung to a 1-0 lead late into the game. Cole Stilwell provided a solo home run (watch) in the second inning, his seventh dinger of the season, for Tech's initial lead. That 1-0 lead lasted until the top of the sixth.
In the top of the sixth, K-State (15-14, 1-6) loaded the bases with its first three batters on a pair of singles and a hit-by-pitch. Morris produced a line-out, and KSU used a sacrifice fly to tie the game next, 1-1, but it was the second out. Morris nearly came out of the inning without much damage, but a timely two-out, two-strike single through the left side scored a pair and put the Red Raiders behind, 3-1.
Texas Tech answered the bell the next half inning, after being limited to one run and three hits in the first five innings, the Red Raiders set up Owen Washburn with the bases loaded and one out in the sixth and that's when the offense begin to fly. Ty Coleman and Stilwell logged a pair of singles and Kurt Wilson drew a walk to set up Washburn.
Washburn cleared the bases (watch) with his sixth double of the season to quickly erase the Wildcats' lead and put the Red Raiders in front, 4-3. Dalton Porter, who picked up his 12th start this season, followed with a run-scoring double (watch) to add to the Red Raiders' lead, pushing them in front by two, 5-3.
Tech took advantage of a pair of Wildcat errors in the seventh to add an insurance run. Coleman used a fielding error to get on base and came around to score aided by a throwing error to first on a base hit logged by Wilson.
Derek Bridges used six pitches to earn three outs in the eighth while Trendan Parish entered in the ninth to earn his sixth save of the season.
Stilwell, Wilson and Washburn each had a pair of base hits to lead Tech on Friday night.
Quotable
Head Coach Tim Tadlock
On snapping its three-game losing skid and seeing the bats and pitching coming together ...
"It's better than the alternative for sure. To me, every baseball game is enjoyable if you sit back and enjoy it and you watch the intricacies, the small things in a game that you can appreciate if you know the game well enough. There were some things in tonight's game that were very enjoyable, and obviously it's a lot more enjoyable when you come out on the right side of it."
Team Stats
Pitching:
W: Morris, Andrew (4-0)
L: Adams, Blake (3-3)
S: Parish, Trendan (6)
Batting:
2B: Mitchell, Justin 1
RBI: Goodwin, Nick 1 ; Nicoloff, Josh 2
SH: Heinrich, Jeff 1
SF: Goodwin, Nick 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Johnson, Dominic 1 ; Day, Brady 1 ; Hughes, Dominic 1
HBP: Johnson, Dominic 1
Batting:
2B: Washburn, Owen 1 ; Porter, Dalton 1
HR: Stilwell, Cole 1
RBI: Stilwell, Cole 1 ; Washburn, Owen 3 ; Porter, Dalton 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Coleman, Ty 2 ; Stilwell, Cole 2 ; Wilson, Kurt 1 ; Washburn, Owen 1
Game Leaders
Hitting
AB
4
R
2
H
2
RBI
1
AB
3
R
1
H
2
RBI
0
AB
3
R
1
H
2
RBI
3
AB
4
R
2
H
1
RBI
0
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