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Tenth-inning fireworks push No. 21 Tech past OU
April 14, 2023 | Baseball
NORMAN, Okla. – No. 21 Texas Tech defeated Oklahoma 13-7 in 10 innings Friday night at L. Dale Mitchell Park. The Red Raiders put on a show in extra innings, scoring seven runs to earn a convincing Big 12 road win to start its fourth conference series of the season.
It was knotted 6-6 after nine innings behind an Oklahoma comeback effort. The Sooners scored one run in the bottom of the ninth to give the season-high 2,577 fans in attendance free baseball.
The Red Raiders bounced back, and in a big way, by seizing the game in the extra frame with seven runs off of four hits. No hit was bigger than Gavin Kash's grand slam, his second home run of the game, to balloon Tech's 9-6 lead to a 13-6 lead. The Sooners would add a run in the bottom half using a solo home run.
To start the 10th, Hudson White drew a leadoff walk and Zac Vooletich knocked a 1-2 pitch down the right field line for a double to push White to third base representing the go-ahead run 90 feet away. After a Tracer Lopez strikeout, Nolen Hester gave Tech a 7-6 lead with his third hit of the game – which marked back-to-back three-hit games for the senior. Drew Woodcox was walked on the ensuing at-bat, which loaded the bases for Gage Harrelson.
Harrelson needed a home run to hit for the cycle, but the freshman settled for an RBI single to move the baserunners station-to-station and put Tech on top, 8-6. Harrelson finished the game with a career-high four hits. Kevin Bazzell followed Harrelson's at-bat and worked a bases-loaded walk to score another, setting up Kash with the bases juiced for his heroics.
Kash's Big 12 leading 15th home run spiked his RBI total to six for the game, giving him his second six RBI game in 2023 and a whopping 56 RBIs for the season.
Brendon Girton was electric in a relief effort that settled the game down after Oklahoma knocked starter Mason Molina out of the game. Molina surrendered four runs in 2 2/3 innings of work. Ethan Coombes secured the final out of the third inning for the Red Raiders, setting up Girton to take over. Tech trailed 4-2 when Girton went to work in the bottom of the fourth.
Girton tossed scoreless frames in the fourth, fifth and sixth innings. It was the seventh that he allowed a leadoff walk, his only of the outing, that turned into a run, but when he exited Tech owned a 6-5 lead.
Brandon Beckel worked a clean eighth, but in the ninth allowed a leadoff double that turned into the game-tying run on the very next at-bat as an RBI single knotted the game. Beckel was credited with the win being the pitcher of record during the Red Raiders' seven-run outburst in the 10th. Kyle Robinson needed 16 pitches to get the final three outs in the 10th to give the Red Raiders the series-opening win that was followed by a postgame fireworks show after its own fireworks in the top half of the 10th.
Up Next
Texas Tech and Oklahoma resume the series at 4 p.m. on Saturday for game two. RHP Trendan Parish is slated to start for the Red Raiders while RHP Braxton Douthit will get the ball for the Sooners.
It was knotted 6-6 after nine innings behind an Oklahoma comeback effort. The Sooners scored one run in the bottom of the ninth to give the season-high 2,577 fans in attendance free baseball.
The Red Raiders bounced back, and in a big way, by seizing the game in the extra frame with seven runs off of four hits. No hit was bigger than Gavin Kash's grand slam, his second home run of the game, to balloon Tech's 9-6 lead to a 13-6 lead. The Sooners would add a run in the bottom half using a solo home run.
To start the 10th, Hudson White drew a leadoff walk and Zac Vooletich knocked a 1-2 pitch down the right field line for a double to push White to third base representing the go-ahead run 90 feet away. After a Tracer Lopez strikeout, Nolen Hester gave Tech a 7-6 lead with his third hit of the game – which marked back-to-back three-hit games for the senior. Drew Woodcox was walked on the ensuing at-bat, which loaded the bases for Gage Harrelson.
Harrelson needed a home run to hit for the cycle, but the freshman settled for an RBI single to move the baserunners station-to-station and put Tech on top, 8-6. Harrelson finished the game with a career-high four hits. Kevin Bazzell followed Harrelson's at-bat and worked a bases-loaded walk to score another, setting up Kash with the bases juiced for his heroics.
Kash's Big 12 leading 15th home run spiked his RBI total to six for the game, giving him his second six RBI game in 2023 and a whopping 56 RBIs for the season.
Brendon Girton was electric in a relief effort that settled the game down after Oklahoma knocked starter Mason Molina out of the game. Molina surrendered four runs in 2 2/3 innings of work. Ethan Coombes secured the final out of the third inning for the Red Raiders, setting up Girton to take over. Tech trailed 4-2 when Girton went to work in the bottom of the fourth.
Girton tossed scoreless frames in the fourth, fifth and sixth innings. It was the seventh that he allowed a leadoff walk, his only of the outing, that turned into a run, but when he exited Tech owned a 6-5 lead.
Brandon Beckel worked a clean eighth, but in the ninth allowed a leadoff double that turned into the game-tying run on the very next at-bat as an RBI single knotted the game. Beckel was credited with the win being the pitcher of record during the Red Raiders' seven-run outburst in the 10th. Kyle Robinson needed 16 pitches to get the final three outs in the 10th to give the Red Raiders the series-opening win that was followed by a postgame fireworks show after its own fireworks in the top half of the 10th.
Up Next
Texas Tech and Oklahoma resume the series at 4 p.m. on Saturday for game two. RHP Trendan Parish is slated to start for the Red Raiders while RHP Braxton Douthit will get the ball for the Sooners.
Team Stats
Pitching:
W: Beckel, Brandon (5-0)
L: Weber, A. (0-2)
Batting:
2B: Coleman, Ty 1 ; Harrelson, Gage 1 ; Vooletich, Zac 1
3B: Harrelson, Gage 1
HR: Kash, Gavin 2
RBI: Hester, Nolen 1 ; Harrelson, Gage 3 ; Bazzell, Kevin 2 ; Kash, Gavin 6
SF: Kash, Gavin 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Hester, Nolen 3 ; Woodcox, Drew 1 ; Harrelson, Gage 3 ; Bazzell, Kevin 1 ; Kash, Gavin 2 ; White, Hudson 1 ; Vooletich, Zac 1 ; Lopez, Tracer 1
Batting:
2B: Mackenzie,A. 1 ; Clark, W. 1 ; Muniz, D. 2
3B: Nicklaus, J. 1
HR: Spikerman,J. 1
RBI: Madron, B. 1 ; Spikerman,J. 1 ; Muniz, D. 2 ; Nicklaus, J. 3
SF: Nicklaus, J. 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Spikerman,J. 1 ; Clark, W. 1 ; Powell, C. 1 ; GarzaGongora 1 ; Muniz, D. 2 ; Fletcher, K. 1
SB: Spikerman,J. 2 ; Muniz, D. 1 ; Nicklaus, J. 1
HBP: Mackenzie,A. 2 ; Madron, B. 2
Game Leaders
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