Kansas State University
Texas Christian University
Apr 01, 2017 | Baseball
GAME RECAP
5
0
3
TCU
HORNED FROGS
20-5 (6-1 Big 12)
NR
K-STATE
WILDCATS
15-11 (0-4 Big 12)
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | R | H | E | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TCU | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 9 | 0 |
| KSU | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
- Time of Game: 2:51
- First Pitch: 6:35
- Temperature: 51 F
- Wind: NE 8
- Attendance: 1,872
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MANHATTAN, Kan. – The Kansas State baseball team took the No. 3 team in the country to extra innings Friday night, but a five-run 11th inning helped TCU escape Tointon Family Stadium with a 5-0 victory.
K-State (15-11, 0-4 Big 12) held the third-ranked Horned Frogs (20-5, 6-1) scoreless through the game's first 10 innings behind starter Justin Heskett, who allowed just two hits in seven innings while striking out half a dozen batters in a no-decision effort.
Heskett sat down 17 straight Horned Frog batters spanning from the first to the seventh inning. The right-handed junior allowed back-to-back singles in the first and handed out back-to-back walks to lead off the seventh, but that would be all the trouble Heskett would face on the evening.
"I thought he was outstanding tonight," head coach Brad Hill said of Heskett. "Great job of mixing (pitches) and (Tyler Kincaid) called a great game. He had great composure all the way through, our pitching was very good tonight."
Junior reliever Hudson Treu added 2 1/3 innings to continue the Wildcats' scoreless streak into the 10th inning when lefty Jordan Floyd took over. Floyd entered the inning with only one out and a runner on third base, but struck out Ryan Merrill before getting Michael Landestoy to groundout to end the threat.
After K-State went down in order in the home half of the 10th, TCU right fielder Austen Wade led off the 11th inning with a single and after catcher Evan Skoug was hit by a pitch, the Frogs had two on and one out and Luken Baker singled to score the game's first run.
TCU left fielder Josh Watson singled to first to make the score 2-0 and when center fielder Austin Brown legged out a high hopper to the Floyd, the bases were loaded for Elliot Barzilli. Barzilli laced a bases-clearing double down the left-field line to break the game open at 5-0.
TCU starter Jared Janczak retired the first 18 Wildcat hitters he saw and took a perfect game into the seventh inning, until freshman outfielder Cameron Thompson legged out an infield single for the Cats' first base runner. Janczak would finish with nine scoreless innings and seven strikeouts while surrendering one walk and two hits.
"There's really good pitching in this league," Hill added. "It's one of the best, we saw a couple really good ones last week. We've got to find a way to scratch across a of run somewhere along the way."
K-State's biggest threat came in the seventh inning. Following Thompson's single, Will Brennan laid down a sacrifice bunt to move Thompson into scoring position. Steve Serratore grounded out to shortstop that advanced Thompson to third, but that was as far as any Wildcat baserunner would reach on the night.
Brennan got on in the ninth inning via a two-out single and catcher Josh Rolette drew a walk in the eighth to account for all three Wildcat baserunners on the night.
The loss extends K-State's season-long skid to five games. The Cats went down in order in eight of the 11 innings.
The three-game series continues at Tointon Family Stadium Saturday at 2 p.m., and will stream on ESPN3 and the WatchESPN app. Fans can also listen to K-State baseball on KMAN 1350 AM, 93.3 FM and streaming free at k-statesports.com.
INSIDE THE BOX SCORE
• K-State scored no runs on two hits and committed one error and left three runners on base. TCU scored five runs on nine hits with no errors while stranding seven baserunners.
• Heskett retired 17 consecutive TCU hitters in the game while TCU starter Janczak sat down the first 18 Wildcats he saw.
• The Wildcats were put down in order by TCU in eight of the 11 innings of the game.
• K-State got its leadoff man aboard in one of the 11 innings while TCU was able to in three innings.
• The Cats had just two at-bats (0-for-2) with runners in scoring position and 0-for-5 with runners on base.
• With two outs, K-State was 1-for-12 (.083) while TCU was 0-for-10.
NOTES
• TCU now leads the all-time series, 14-7, and K-State is 4-3 all-time vs. TCU in Manhattan.
• The game marked the third extra-inning game of the season for K-State (1-2) and the first to enter the 11th inning.
• This was the first time in the series a game has gone into extra innings.
• K-State starts 0-4 in Big 12 play for the second straight season.
• The five-game losing streak is the Wildcats' longest of the season.
• The Wildcats scored one or fewer runs in four of their last five games and have been shut out in three of their last five. K-State was shut out twice in 2016.
• It was the third time in the series TCU has shut out K-State.
• The three conference shutouts are the most since 2014 (3).
