Kansas State University
Texas Tech University
Apr 15, 2017 | Baseball
GAME RECAP
12
8
6
TEXAS TECH
RED RAIDERS
31-8 (8-4 Big 12)
NR
K-STATE
WILDCATS
17-18 (2-10 Big 12)
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TTU | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 12 | 14 | 1 |
| KSU | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 9 | 2 |
- Time of Game: 3:26
- First Pitch: 2:01
- Temperature: 77 F
- Wind: SSW 25
- Attendance: 2,344
MANHATTAN, Kan. – Kansas State jumped out to a 4-0 lead after two innings but No. 6 Texas Tech battled back to take the rubber game of the series, 12-8, Saturday at Tointon Family Stadium.
Jake Scudder launched a two-run home run – his third in two days – in the first inning and Will Brennan lasered a two-RBI single in the second to give K-State (17-18, 2-10 Big 12) an early lead.
However, Texas Tech (31-8, 8-4) scored four runs in the third and put up a five spot in the seventh inning that gave the sixth-ranked Red Raiders the series win.
"That's a good club," head coach Brad Hill said after the game. "I thought today we had a good shot, I really did. I thought we had a good matchup, pitching-wise, we stayed into it, offensively. When they tied it, 4-4, I felt like we just got really deflated and flat. Then we had four innings of doing nothing offensively. We didn't do a good job of getting reenergized."
TTU center fielder Cody Farhat led off that third inning with a solo shot to center and three batters later third baseman Josh Jung hit a two-run blast to help level the score at four. Jung scored again in the fifth inning and helped the Red Raiders chase Wildcat starter Hudson Treu after 4 1/3 innings. Treu finished the game allowing four earned runs on six hits, striking out two and walking one.
Behind three hits and three walks, Texas Tech put up five runs in the seventh and extended its lead to 10-4 at the seventh-inning stretch. Red Raider catcher Koeleton Sanchez had the big hit in the inning, a bases-clearing double down the left-field line off reliever Jordan Floyd.
"That's a tough lineup to go through, they compete, they foul pitches off," added Hill. "They get really locked in to some at-bats … You have to continue to make pitches. You have to go as hard as you can, as long as you can against those guys. You have to keep making pitches and not give in and we just gave in."
The Wildcat offense began to mount a comeback in the home half of the seventh, as Josh Rolette belted a two-run bomb to center after Kyle Barfield led off the inning with a single. Later in the inning, K-State had the bases loaded with nobody out but Cameron Thompson hit into a 6-4-3 double play, scoring one, and the Cats were unable to cut deeper into Tech's lead.
Texas Tech's middle infield turned four double plays in the game.
Quintin Crandall added an RBI double in the bottom of the ninth and was the only Wildcat to register a multi-hit game.
Josh Ethier reached base in all four plate appearances, drawing three walks and singling in the ninth, and scored three times.
Crandall, Rolette and Scudder each had a pair of RBI.
K-State continues its nine-game homestand with a Tuesday doubleheader with New Mexico (20-14-1). Game one is slated for a 2:30 p.m. start and will be broadcast on K-StateHD.TV while the nightcap beginning at 6:35 p.m., on FOX College Sports and K-StateHD.TV. Both games can be heard on KMAN 1350 AM, 93.3 FM and streaming free at k-statesports.com.
INSIDE THE BOX SCORE
• K-State scored eight runs on nine hits and committed two errors and left five runners on base. TTU scored 12 runs on 14 hits with one error while stranding eight baserunners.
• Texas Tech stranded 28 baserunners in the three-game series.
• Scudder hit his third homer in the last two games and takes sole possession of first place on the Big 12 season list.
• It was K-State's first multi-homer game in its last 16 games and first this season in conference play.
• Wildcat hitters drew eight walks and struck out six times.
• Both team his over .400 with runners in scoring position: TTU (.462), K-State (.417)
• Each side got its leadoff hitter on base in five innings.
NOTES
• K-State is now 27-38-1 all-time vs. Texas Tech and 16-14 at home.
• TTU wins the series with K-State for the fourth straight season
• Scudder's nine home runs this season are a career high and the most by a K-State hitter since 2012 (Wade Hinkle, 10).
• K-State is 2-10 in conference play for the first time since 2005.
