Tech drops another one-run heartbreaker at No. 2 Arkansas

Wednesday, April 17

Fayetteville, AR

4 p.m.

Texas Tech Athletics

26-13

Arkansas

32-5

Texas Tech

Arkansas

Tech drops another one-run heartbreaker at No. 2 Arkansas

April 17, 2024 | Baseball

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Down 5-3, Cade McGee homered to cut it to 5-4 before a strike out ended it

By: Andrew Stern

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Despite a two-RBI double from Kevin Bazzell and a solo home run from Cade McGee, Texas Tech Baseball fell 5-4 Wednesday afternoon to No. 2 Arkansas at Baum-Walker Stadium.

Up 3-2 after the Bazzell two-RBI ground-rule double heading to the bottom of the sixth, Texas Tech (26-13) ran into some trouble in the sixth when Arkansas (32-5) put the first two runners on base on a walk and a single.

Arkansas shortstop Wehiwa Aloy ripped an RBI single on the second offering from lefty Derek Bridges for an RBI single that tied the game at three.

After a sac-bunt placed runners on second and third with one out, Jack Wagner lifted a sac-fly that gave the Hogs a 4-3 lead in the sixth.

In the eighth inning, TJ Pompey walked with one out and nearly scored on a 102 MPH liner up the middle, but Arkansas' Peyton Stovall made a diving catch up the middle to snag the ball.

With Pompey still at first with two outs, Tech's hottest hitter, Austin Green, ripped a 105 MPH liner that died into a Razorback glove at the warning track.

Arkansas added a key insurance run in eighth to go up 5-3, but Tech used a four-pitch walk from Drew Woodcox to put the tying run on base for Landon Stripling.

Stripling roped a liner to Stovall at second who ripped a throw back to first to double off a retreating Woodcox.

Down to their last out, the Red Raiders got the 403-foot homer to left from McGee, but Garet Boehm in a pinch-hit appearance struck out against Stone Hewelett.

The loss was Tech's fourth in a row and sixth in the last nine road contests. Those six road losses have come by a combined seven runs.

UP NEXT:
The Red Raiders return home for the first time in nearly two weeks when they welcome West Virginia for the start of a four-game homestand. First pitch from Rip Griffin is set for 6:30 p.m.