Friday, May 3
Lubbock, TX
6:30 p.m. CT
Texas Tech Athletics
vs
Oklahoma
Tech to host No. 22 OU for final homestand
May 02, 2024 | Baseball
The Red Raiders and Sooners will meet for the final time as Big 12 foes
LUBBOCK, Texas – The Texas Tech Red Raiders welcome No. 22 Oklahoma for the final home series of the 2024 series. The weekend kicks off on Friday night with a 6:30 p.m. first pitch, with Saturday and Sunday's contests both set for a 2 p.m. first pitch.
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Looking to move up the Big 12 standings, the Red Raiders are coming off an 11-6 victory over UTRGV on Tuesday night where Gavin Kash hit a pair of home runs and Josh Sanders pitched 2.1 innings to earn his fourth win of the season.
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As part of the final weekend festivities, the Red Raiders will honor their nine seniors prior to Sunday's 2 p.m. first pitch.
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INSIDE THE MATCHUPS:
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GAME ONE:
MATCHUP: Texas Tech (30-17 12-12 Big 12) at Oklahoma (26-17, 15-6 Big 12) Â
DATE: Friday, May 3, 2024
TIME: 6:30 p.m.
LOCATION: Dan Law Field at Rip Griffin Park (Lubbock, Texas)
PITCHING MATCHUP: LHP Ryan Free (5-0, 4.58 ERA) vs. LHP Braden Davis (5-3, 4.97 ERA) Â
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GAME TWO:
MATCHUP: Texas Tech (30-17 12-12 Big 12) at Oklahoma (26-17, 15-6 Big 12) Â
DATE: Saturday, May 4, 2024
TIME: 2 p.m.
LOCATION: Dan Law Field at Rip Griffin Park (Lubbock, Texas)
PITCHING MATCHUP: RHP Kyle Robinson (4-5, 4.53 ERA) vs. RHP Kyson Witherspoon (4-3, 4.21 ERA)
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GAME THREE:
MATCHUP: Texas Tech (30-17 12-12 Big 12) at Oklahoma (26-17, 15-6 Big 12) Â
DATE: Sunday, May 5, 2024
TIME: 2 p.m.
LOCATION: Dan Law Field at Rip Griffin Park (Lubbock, Texas)
PITCHING MATCHUP: RHP Mac Heuer (4-4, 6.02 ERA) vs. RHP Brendan Girton (0-1, 5.68 ERA)
1-2-3 HEADLINES:
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* The Red Raiders play host to the University of Oklahoma this weekend for the final all-time Big 12 matchup between the two schools. The weekend series is also crucial for the Red Raiders who have just two total series and six Big 12 Conference games. Tech enters the weekend in seventh place in the Big 12 standings and can continue to move closer to clinching a spot in the Big 12 Tournament with a strong weekend against the Sooners.
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* The Red Raiders enter the weekend after closing midweek play with an 11-6 victory over UTRGV. In that contest, the Red Raiders got four cluatch home runs from Gavin Kash, Davis Rivers and Cade McGee. Kash who homered in the first two at-bats of the games. With the blasts Kash regained the team lead in home runs while McGee hit his career-best 11th home run of the season. With the victory, the Red Raiders recorded win No. 30 of the season and got HC Tim Tadlock his 450th career victory.
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* With the final home weekend series here, the Red Raiders will honor their nine season on Sunday afternoon as LHP Derek Bridges, LHP Ryan Free, OF Austin Green, LHP Max Huffling, LHP Hudson Luce, RHP Isiah Rhodes, RHP Josh Sanders, RHP Jack Washburn and OF Drew Woodcox will all be honored.
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WEEKEND NOTES:
W Equaled 450 & 30
With victory over UTRGV on Tuesday afternoon the Red Raiders hit a pair of milestones as Tech recorded its 30th victory of the season, marking the 10th straight season that the Red Raiders have reached 30 wins in a season (excluding the 2020 season which was shortened due to the COVID-19 pandemic). The victory was also the 450th victory for Coach Tim Tadlock, as Tadlock became the second coach in Tech Baseball history (Lary Hays) to reach 450 total wins.
AND THEN THERE WERE NINE
With the midweek contests completed, the Red Raiders will play just nine regular season games over the first 20 days of the seasons penultimate month. Following the weekend series with Oklahoma, the Red Raiders will close Big 12 play with a weekend series at OSU next weekend before heading to Tempe for a three-game two-day multiple opponent weekend against Arizona State and UNLV. The Red Raiders and Sun Devils will play a pair of night games on Thursday (May 16) and Friday (May 17) night while Tech is scheduled for a 3 p.m. (1 p.m. MST) contest against UNLV.
SOONER STATE TWO-STEP
With just two conference weekends and six games remaining, the Red Raiders will be tested over the final two weekends of conference play as the series will feature the top teams in the current Big 12 standings. The first opponent on the docket is first place Oklahoma who enters at 15-6 while the second weekend against the Cowboys of Oklahoma State will feature the Big 12s second place team. OSU enters the weekend at 14-7 in Big 12 play and are currently tied with West Virginia. Unlike the Red Raiders who only have two series left in confernece play, both OSU and OU have three series remaining in Big 12 Conference play. Â
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TRYING TO DO WHAT OU DID IN '22
The last time Oklahoma visited Lubbock for a weekend series was the 2022 season. Like this weekend's series, it came as the Red Raiders final home conference series. Entering the weekend at 31-19 overall and 13-8 in Big 12 play, the Sooners won the first game of the series before falling in the finale. The series proved to be a bit of a spring board for OU who following the weekend series in Lubbock won 10 out of 12 and advanced all the way to the College World Series Championship Series.
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On Friday night against Kansas, the Red Raiders turned seven double plays in nine innings. The Red Raiders turned a double play in every inning except the fourth and ninth. The streak started in the bottom of the first when Ryan Free induced a 4-3 GDP of Jake English in the first. In the second inning, Free ended the inning with a 6-4-3 GDP. In the third Free put the first two outs on the board on a 4-6-3 double play. In the fifth, Free got English to ground into another GDP, this time started by SS Tracer Lopez who flipped to TJ Pompey who then threw to Gavin Kash to complete the 6-4-3 DP. In the sixth, reliever Josh Sanders ended the inning with a 6-3 DP before a line drive DP in the seventh ended another inning. In the eighth, Sanders erased a lead off single for the Red Raiders seventh double play of the game. The seven double plays were a new school record and tied the all-time NCAA mark. It was the fifth time in NCAA history that a team had turned seven double plays  Â
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After hitting into tough luck last weekend against KU, first baseman Gavin Kash erupted for two home runs on Tuesday night against UTRGV. After homering to left-center in his first at-bat of the night, Kash ripped a home run down the left field line for his second of the night. Kash's home runs were his 11th and 12th of the season, as the first baseman regained the team lead in HRs. The longballs were Kash's 37th and 38th all-time as the infielder moved into a tie for seventh all-time on the Red Raiders home run list. Kash needs just seven home runs to tie Clint Bryant on the all-time home run list.
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Damian Bravo has been suburb in his second season in Lubbock, as the Sophomore has hit a team-best .398 in his 41 games played. After leaving the series finale in Fort Worth and missing the two midweeks at Arkansas and Friday's opener against WVU, Bravo returned to the lineup for both ends of the DH on Sunday. Bravo leads the Big 12 in average and doubles. Bravo is third in the league in hits (64) and runs scored (49). On Tuesday night Bravo recorded his 20th multiple hit game of the season and scored his 50th and 51st runs of the season. After never having a triple in his career in over 180 at-bats, Bravo has recorded a triple in back-to-back games.
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The Red Raiders have clearly been aggressive on the base-paths this season, as the club has now stolen 45 bases in 47Â games played. The Red Raiders went until Mar. 23 against BYU without a caught stealing as the Red Raiders went 28 consecutive stolen base attempts with out a caught stealing. Tech has been caught stealing just five times and already have stolen 17 more bases than 2023 (28).
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With his appearance last Sunday at Kansas, senior Derek Bridges recorded his 72nd career appearance as a Red Raider. That ties him for seventh all-time on the appearance list with John McMillian. Bridges needs just two more appearances to tie Brian Cloud for the sixth-most appearances in program history.
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Another pitcher who changed his warm up song in 2024 was senior Josh Sanders, who will now warm up to Adelle's Rolling in the Deep. So far it seems the warm up song is working for Sanders, as the righty has pitched 37.0 innings thus far, allowing just 26 hits and 10 runs (eight earned). Sanders has now struck out 38 batters in his 37.0 innings of work. The righty retired his last 14 batters in a row including three perfect innings in Friday's win over Houston. Sanders allowed his first run in a month last weekend at KU when he was touched up for two runs. The runs were the first he had allowed in seven appearances and 13.2 inning pitched. He is tied for the team lead in saves (2) and is tied for the team lead in wins (4). Sanders' appearance on Tuesday night against UTRGV was his 67th all-time appearance as he passed Jeff Peck for 10th all-time on the appearance list.
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Freshman Parker Hutyra has really emerged in his first collegiate season as the freshman has allowed just three runs in 15 appearances and 22.0 innings pitched. Hutyra has struck out 24 batters this season, and hallowed his first run since Feb. 21 vs. Oregon State last weekend against WVU. That span stretched 18.1 innings and included five straight key outings against BYU, UCF, Stanford and TCU. The righty has struck out 24 batters in his last 18.1 innings pitched. Prior to the Sunday appearance in the loss to TCU the Red Raiders had won six straight games he'd appeared in. And while Hutyra has continued to perform at a high level, he did maybe his best work of the season against Houston as after throwing 45 pitches in nearly three scoreless innings, Hutyra entered in a four-run game and fired a scoreless ninth to close out a series sweep. After allowing three walks and game-winning run on Friday night against Kansas, Hutyra bounced back on Sunday afternoon when he pitched three nearly perfect innings. The  righty allowed just one hit and retired nine of the 10 batters he faced.
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The Red Raiders slugged a school-record nine home runs in the victory over ACU, as four different Red Raiders hit multiple home runs (Cade McGee, Gavin Kash, TJ Pompey and Drew Woodcox). Tech became the first Big 12 Team since 2019 to sock nine home runs as the four players with multiple home runs are the most by a Big 12 team since at least 2011.  Â
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The Red Raiders have now won eight straight Big 12 home games including a pair of sweeps against Houston and WVU. The Red Raiders have swept back-to-back Big 12 Conference series for the first time since the 2016 season. The Red Raiders eight straight Big 12 home wins are the most Tech has rattled off in a row since the 2014 season.
UP NEXT:
The Red Raiders return to action next weekend for the final Big 12 Conference weekend series against Oklahoma State. First pitch from Stillwater is set for 6 p.m. on Friday night.
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Looking to move up the Big 12 standings, the Red Raiders are coming off an 11-6 victory over UTRGV on Tuesday night where Gavin Kash hit a pair of home runs and Josh Sanders pitched 2.1 innings to earn his fourth win of the season.
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As part of the final weekend festivities, the Red Raiders will honor their nine seniors prior to Sunday's 2 p.m. first pitch.
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INSIDE THE MATCHUPS:
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GAME ONE:
MATCHUP: Texas Tech (30-17 12-12 Big 12) at Oklahoma (26-17, 15-6 Big 12) Â
DATE: Friday, May 3, 2024
TIME: 6:30 p.m.
LOCATION: Dan Law Field at Rip Griffin Park (Lubbock, Texas)
PITCHING MATCHUP: LHP Ryan Free (5-0, 4.58 ERA) vs. LHP Braden Davis (5-3, 4.97 ERA) Â
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GAME TWO:
MATCHUP: Texas Tech (30-17 12-12 Big 12) at Oklahoma (26-17, 15-6 Big 12) Â
DATE: Saturday, May 4, 2024
TIME: 2 p.m.
LOCATION: Dan Law Field at Rip Griffin Park (Lubbock, Texas)
PITCHING MATCHUP: RHP Kyle Robinson (4-5, 4.53 ERA) vs. RHP Kyson Witherspoon (4-3, 4.21 ERA)
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GAME THREE:
MATCHUP: Texas Tech (30-17 12-12 Big 12) at Oklahoma (26-17, 15-6 Big 12) Â
DATE: Sunday, May 5, 2024
TIME: 2 p.m.
LOCATION: Dan Law Field at Rip Griffin Park (Lubbock, Texas)
PITCHING MATCHUP: RHP Mac Heuer (4-4, 6.02 ERA) vs. RHP Brendan Girton (0-1, 5.68 ERA)
1-2-3 HEADLINES:
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* The Red Raiders play host to the University of Oklahoma this weekend for the final all-time Big 12 matchup between the two schools. The weekend series is also crucial for the Red Raiders who have just two total series and six Big 12 Conference games. Tech enters the weekend in seventh place in the Big 12 standings and can continue to move closer to clinching a spot in the Big 12 Tournament with a strong weekend against the Sooners.
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* The Red Raiders enter the weekend after closing midweek play with an 11-6 victory over UTRGV. In that contest, the Red Raiders got four cluatch home runs from Gavin Kash, Davis Rivers and Cade McGee. Kash who homered in the first two at-bats of the games. With the blasts Kash regained the team lead in home runs while McGee hit his career-best 11th home run of the season. With the victory, the Red Raiders recorded win No. 30 of the season and got HC Tim Tadlock his 450th career victory.
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* With the final home weekend series here, the Red Raiders will honor their nine season on Sunday afternoon as LHP Derek Bridges, LHP Ryan Free, OF Austin Green, LHP Max Huffling, LHP Hudson Luce, RHP Isiah Rhodes, RHP Josh Sanders, RHP Jack Washburn and OF Drew Woodcox will all be honored.
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WEEKEND NOTES:
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IT'S THE FINAL HOMESTAND
This weekends series against No. 22 Oklahoma will mark the final three matchups between the longtime Big 12 rivals as conference foes. OU will of course depart the Big 12 Conference in July and will become members of the SEC. The Red Raiders and Sooners have been conference mates since the creation of the Big 12 Conference back in 1996.
IT'S THE FINAL HOMESTAND
W Equaled 450 & 30
AND THEN THERE WERE NINE
SOONER STATE TWO-STEP
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LOGJAM IN THE MIDDLE
With three Big 12 weekends left before the conclusion of both conference play and the regular season, the Big 12 standings are rather congested in the middle as 10 of the league's 13 teams have at least eight losses and eight of the 13 have at least 10 losses. The Red Raiders who reside in seventh in the current Big 12 standings are just two wins behind both OSU and WVU who are tied for second in the league standings. TCU and BYU are the only other two teams who have played eight conference weekends. The Horned Frogs reside in 11th place at 10-14 while BYU is in 13th at 6-18.
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SENIOR DAY ON THE HORIZON
With the series against OU being the final home weekend of the year, the Red Raiders will honor their nine seniors prior to Sunday's series finale. That group is comprised of (in alphabetical order): LHP Derek Bridges, LHP Ryan Free, OF Austin Green, LHP Max Huffling, LHP Hudson Luce, RHP Isiah Rhodes, RHP Josh Sanders, RHP Jack Washburn and OF Drew Woodcox.Â
FOUR STRAIGHT INNINGS WITH TWO KA$H BOMBS
After not hitting a home run in the three game series in Lawrence, the Red Raiders highlighted by a pair of long balls from first baseman Gavin Kash left the ballpark four times in the first four innings. The home runs were numbers 75, 76, 77 and 78. It marks the fourth straight season that the Red Raiders have eclipsed 75 home runs as a team. Kash hit a home run in the first while Davis Rivers recorded the second homer of the night in second inning. After another Kash bomb in the third, Cade McGee homered in the fourth. It marks the fourth time this season that the Red Raiders have homered in four straight innings and the first time they did it since the Apr. 10 game at ACU where Tech homered nine times including the first six innings of the game.  Â
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On Friday night against Kansas, the Red Raiders turned seven double plays in nine innings. The Red Raiders turned a double play in every inning except the fourth and ninth. The streak started in the bottom of the first when Ryan Free induced a 4-3 GDP of Jake English in the first. In the second inning, Free ended the inning with a 6-4-3 GDP. In the third Free put the first two outs on the board on a 4-6-3 double play. In the fifth, Free got English to ground into another GDP, this time started by SS Tracer Lopez who flipped to TJ Pompey who then threw to Gavin Kash to complete the 6-4-3 DP. In the sixth, reliever Josh Sanders ended the inning with a 6-3 DP before a line drive DP in the seventh ended another inning. In the eighth, Sanders erased a lead off single for the Red Raiders seventh double play of the game. The seven double plays were a new school record and tied the all-time NCAA mark. It was the fifth time in NCAA history that a team had turned seven double plays  Â
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After hitting into tough luck last weekend against KU, first baseman Gavin Kash erupted for two home runs on Tuesday night against UTRGV. After homering to left-center in his first at-bat of the night, Kash ripped a home run down the left field line for his second of the night. Kash's home runs were his 11th and 12th of the season, as the first baseman regained the team lead in HRs. The longballs were Kash's 37th and 38th all-time as the infielder moved into a tie for seventh all-time on the Red Raiders home run list. Kash needs just seven home runs to tie Clint Bryant on the all-time home run list.
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Damian Bravo has been suburb in his second season in Lubbock, as the Sophomore has hit a team-best .398 in his 41 games played. After leaving the series finale in Fort Worth and missing the two midweeks at Arkansas and Friday's opener against WVU, Bravo returned to the lineup for both ends of the DH on Sunday. Bravo leads the Big 12 in average and doubles. Bravo is third in the league in hits (64) and runs scored (49). On Tuesday night Bravo recorded his 20th multiple hit game of the season and scored his 50th and 51st runs of the season. After never having a triple in his career in over 180 at-bats, Bravo has recorded a triple in back-to-back games.
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The Red Raiders have clearly been aggressive on the base-paths this season, as the club has now stolen 45 bases in 47Â games played. The Red Raiders went until Mar. 23 against BYU without a caught stealing as the Red Raiders went 28 consecutive stolen base attempts with out a caught stealing. Tech has been caught stealing just five times and already have stolen 17 more bases than 2023 (28).
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With his appearance last Sunday at Kansas, senior Derek Bridges recorded his 72nd career appearance as a Red Raider. That ties him for seventh all-time on the appearance list with John McMillian. Bridges needs just two more appearances to tie Brian Cloud for the sixth-most appearances in program history.
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Another pitcher who changed his warm up song in 2024 was senior Josh Sanders, who will now warm up to Adelle's Rolling in the Deep. So far it seems the warm up song is working for Sanders, as the righty has pitched 37.0 innings thus far, allowing just 26 hits and 10 runs (eight earned). Sanders has now struck out 38 batters in his 37.0 innings of work. The righty retired his last 14 batters in a row including three perfect innings in Friday's win over Houston. Sanders allowed his first run in a month last weekend at KU when he was touched up for two runs. The runs were the first he had allowed in seven appearances and 13.2 inning pitched. He is tied for the team lead in saves (2) and is tied for the team lead in wins (4). Sanders' appearance on Tuesday night against UTRGV was his 67th all-time appearance as he passed Jeff Peck for 10th all-time on the appearance list.
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Freshman Parker Hutyra has really emerged in his first collegiate season as the freshman has allowed just three runs in 15 appearances and 22.0 innings pitched. Hutyra has struck out 24 batters this season, and hallowed his first run since Feb. 21 vs. Oregon State last weekend against WVU. That span stretched 18.1 innings and included five straight key outings against BYU, UCF, Stanford and TCU. The righty has struck out 24 batters in his last 18.1 innings pitched. Prior to the Sunday appearance in the loss to TCU the Red Raiders had won six straight games he'd appeared in. And while Hutyra has continued to perform at a high level, he did maybe his best work of the season against Houston as after throwing 45 pitches in nearly three scoreless innings, Hutyra entered in a four-run game and fired a scoreless ninth to close out a series sweep. After allowing three walks and game-winning run on Friday night against Kansas, Hutyra bounced back on Sunday afternoon when he pitched three nearly perfect innings. The  righty allowed just one hit and retired nine of the 10 batters he faced.
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The Red Raiders slugged a school-record nine home runs in the victory over ACU, as four different Red Raiders hit multiple home runs (Cade McGee, Gavin Kash, TJ Pompey and Drew Woodcox). Tech became the first Big 12 Team since 2019 to sock nine home runs as the four players with multiple home runs are the most by a Big 12 team since at least 2011.  Â
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The Red Raiders have now won eight straight Big 12 home games including a pair of sweeps against Houston and WVU. The Red Raiders have swept back-to-back Big 12 Conference series for the first time since the 2016 season. The Red Raiders eight straight Big 12 home wins are the most Tech has rattled off in a row since the 2014 season.
UP NEXT:
The Red Raiders return to action next weekend for the final Big 12 Conference weekend series against Oklahoma State. First pitch from Stillwater is set for 6 p.m. on Friday night.
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