Kansas State University Athletics
Tuesday, May 7
Manhattan, Kan.
3 p.m.
Kansas State University
vs
Texas Southern
K-State Hosts Texas Southern, Game Moved to 3 p.m. Start
May 06, 2019 | Baseball
MANHATTAN, Kan. – Due to rain and thunderstorms in the forecast Tuesday evening, K-State's non-conference matchup with Texas Southern has been moved to a 3 p.m. first pitch at Tointon Family Stadium.
Tuesday's game marks the Wildcats' (23-26, 7-11 Big 12) final non-conference game as well as the Mental Health Awareness game. K-State will wear green tape, wrist bands and shoelaces to promote awareness of mental health issues.
Tickets are buy-one, get-one free for the final Two-For-One Tuesday game of the season. Fans can buy tickets by calling (800) 221-CATS, visiting K-StateSports.com/tickets or by stopping by the K-State Ticket Office inside Bramlage Coliseum.
K-State and Texas Southern is set to air FOX College Sports Central and on K-StateHD.TV. Radio coverage is available on News Radio KMAN (93.3 FM, 1350 AM) with streaming audio at K-StateSports.com/watch.
GAME #50
K-STATE (23-26, 7-11 BIG 12) vs. TEXAS SOUTHERN (17-31, 13-11 SWAC)
Tuesday, May 7 // 3 p.m. // Tointon Family Stadium (2,334) // Manhattan, Kan.
Projected Starters: LHP Will Brennan (3-4, 6.26 ERA) vs. TBA
Watch: FOX College Sports Central // K-StateHD.TV // Brian Smoller, Mike Clark, Bridget Howard
Radio: News Radio KMAN (93.3 FM, 1350 AM) // Matt Walters, John Kurtz
Listen Online: K-StateSports.com/watch // 1350kman.com
Promotion: Two-For-One Tuesdays | Buy Tickets
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A LOOK AT K-STATE
K-State (23-26) enters its Tuesday matchup with Texas Southern after claiming the series finale at No. 15 Baylor on Sunday 10-3 ... After dropping the first two games of the series, the Wildcats jumped out to a 7-0 lead courtesy of a five-run third ... In the inning, K-State scored all five runs with two outs and finished the game with eight of its 10 runs coming with two gone ... Chris Ceballos homered as one of his four hits in the finale ... Cameron Thompson drove in three while Blake Burrows, Caleb Littlejim and Jaxon Passino each had two RBI ... Burrows' runs batted in marked the first in his K-State career ... Jordan Wicks turned in his team-best seventh quality start of the season as he allowed two earned runs over six innings ... In the series, Ceballos led the Cats with five hits, going 5-for-10 with a homer ... Littlejim drove in five runs to take over the team lead in the category with 32 ... Terrence Spurlin lifted a three-run home run Friday night to put K-State ahead 3-0 in the first inning of the series opener ... Game 1 of the series would later be suspended due to inclement weather and was resumed Saturday with the score 3-3 and two Baylor runners on base in the sixth inning ... When play resumed, the Bears drew a bases-loaded walk which would turn out to be the game-winning run ... K-State's win on Sunday improved its record to 6-6 against ranked teams, as it currently sits one game out of fifth place in the Big 12 standings with a 7-11 record.
A LOOK AT TEXAS SOUTHERN
Texas Southern (17-31) claimed two of three games against Arkansas-Pine Bluff in the Tigers' final regular-season conference weekend ... TSU has a record of 13-11 in the SWAC and has won five of its last seven games overall ... Oscar Ponce leads the Tigers with a .311 average to go with a .367 on-base percentage and .462 slugging percentage ... Olajide Oloruntimilehin has a team-best 13 home runs and 39 RBI while Christian Sanchez has hit 11 homers and driven in 34 ... The Tigers' pitching staff has a team ERA of 7.82 while opponents are hitting .325 against them ... TSU is 6-22 in true road games and 0-16 in non-conference road tests ... Texas Southern qualified for the NCAA Tournament last year, as it reached the Austin Regional.
A LOOK AT THE SERIES
Tuesday's meeting will mark the first-ever game between K-State and Texas Southern ... K-State is 4-0 all-time against teams from the Southwestern Athletic Conference, last sweeping a three-game home series with Arkansas-Pine Bluff in 2016.
FROM THE PEN
Through four games in the month of May, the K-State bullpen boasts a 2.16 ERA ... Over 16 2/3 innings, Wildcat relievers have allowed four earned runs on 14 hits with 10 strikeouts and four walks ... Opponents are hitting .230 against the bullpen in May while owning a 1-1 record with one save ... Jaxon Passino has allowed one hit and no runs over 4 2/3 innings while Mitch Zubradt has tossed 3 2/3 scoreless frames.
POWER SURGE
K-State hit a one home run in 15 of its last 16 games, including a stretch of 14 straight games before being snapped Saturday at Baylor ... The stretch of 14 consecutive games with a home run marked the Wildcats longest in the Big 12 era and is the longest by any team in the nation this season ... Brennan hit the Wildcats' first grand slam of the season on Wednesday against Wichita State ... K-State has hit 17 homers in the last 16 games, led by Cameron Thompson who has five over the stretch ... Prior to its three-homer game against Omaha on April 10, the K-State offense had just two home runs over its last 11 games - including a stretch of five consecutive outings without a bomb ... Zach Kokoska and Chris Ceballos lead the way with seven home runs, as K-State has tallied 40 on the season ... Thirty-three of K-State's 40 home runs this season have been hit by newcomers or by someone without a home run last season ... The Wildcats are 20-10 when hitting a home run and 6-1 when hitting multiple home runs.
LITTLEJIM, BIG BAT
With five RBI in the three-game series at Baylor, K-State junior Caleb Littlejim has taken over the team lead with 32 runs batted in ... Littlejim drove in three in Game 2 of the Baylor series and two more in the series finale ... Littlejim, who was exclusively a pitcher the last two seasons, has driven in multiple runs in three of his last four games ... He leads K-State with 12 multi-RBI games and has more games with two or more RBI than multi-hit games (7) ... Littlejim has a team-best 13 RBI in conference games and leads the team with a .447 average with runners in scoring position.
KOKO GOIN' LOCO
K-State sophomore Zach Kokoska has catapulted himself to the top of K-State's leaderboard in all three slash categories with a .331 average, .412 on-base percentage and a .527 slugging percentage ... Kokoska's season-long 12-game hitting streak came to an end at Oklahoma following an 0-for-4 effort ... It was the longest streak by any Wildcat this season ... The Latrobe, Pennsylvania, product is third on the team with 29 runs batted in and 15 multi-hit games ... Kokoska boasts a team-best .358 average in Big 12 games, with a team-high eight multi-hit games.
WINNING TIME
In K-State's 23 wins this season, the Wildcats are hitting .366 with runners in scoring position and .322 with two outs ... Conversely, the Cats have a .194 average with runners in scoring position while hitting .176 with two outs over 26 losses ... K-State has produced 65 two-out RBI in victories with just 23 in 26 losses ... Overall, K-State hits .304 in victories against just .224 in defeats ... In 26 losses, K-State pitchers have combined for 127 walks (5.1 per game) while in victories the staff averages 3.5 walks per game (83 walks in 23 wins) ... K-State had 13 two-out RBI against the Baylor Bears, including eight in its 10-3 win on Sunday ... K-State hit .364 with runners in scoring position at Baylor.
YOUNG GUNS
K-State freshmen Griffin Hassall and Jordan Wicks claimed back-to-back Big 12 Newcomer of the Week honors, April 15 and 22, respectively ... Against No. 19 TCU, Hassall went a career-long 7 2/3 innings pitched as he allowed one run on three hits to pick up his second straight win over a top-25 team ... Hassall struck out five with one walk issued ... In the series rubber match at No. 14 Texas, Wicks tossed a five-hit shutout of the Longhorns to clinch K-State's second-ever road series victory over a ranked team ... Wicks retired 14 of the last 15 batters he faced, including a stretch of 11 straight at one point ... K-State is 9-3 in games Wicks starts, who has a team-best seven quality outings in 12 starts.
Tuesday's game marks the Wildcats' (23-26, 7-11 Big 12) final non-conference game as well as the Mental Health Awareness game. K-State will wear green tape, wrist bands and shoelaces to promote awareness of mental health issues.
Tickets are buy-one, get-one free for the final Two-For-One Tuesday game of the season. Fans can buy tickets by calling (800) 221-CATS, visiting K-StateSports.com/tickets or by stopping by the K-State Ticket Office inside Bramlage Coliseum.
K-State and Texas Southern is set to air FOX College Sports Central and on K-StateHD.TV. Radio coverage is available on News Radio KMAN (93.3 FM, 1350 AM) with streaming audio at K-StateSports.com/watch.
GAME #50
K-STATE (23-26, 7-11 BIG 12) vs. TEXAS SOUTHERN (17-31, 13-11 SWAC)
Tuesday, May 7 // 3 p.m. // Tointon Family Stadium (2,334) // Manhattan, Kan.
Projected Starters: LHP Will Brennan (3-4, 6.26 ERA) vs. TBA
Watch: FOX College Sports Central // K-StateHD.TV // Brian Smoller, Mike Clark, Bridget Howard
Radio: News Radio KMAN (93.3 FM, 1350 AM) // Matt Walters, John Kurtz
Listen Online: K-StateSports.com/watch // 1350kman.com
Promotion: Two-For-One Tuesdays | Buy Tickets
Watch | Listen Online | Live Stats
A LOOK AT K-STATE
K-State (23-26) enters its Tuesday matchup with Texas Southern after claiming the series finale at No. 15 Baylor on Sunday 10-3 ... After dropping the first two games of the series, the Wildcats jumped out to a 7-0 lead courtesy of a five-run third ... In the inning, K-State scored all five runs with two outs and finished the game with eight of its 10 runs coming with two gone ... Chris Ceballos homered as one of his four hits in the finale ... Cameron Thompson drove in three while Blake Burrows, Caleb Littlejim and Jaxon Passino each had two RBI ... Burrows' runs batted in marked the first in his K-State career ... Jordan Wicks turned in his team-best seventh quality start of the season as he allowed two earned runs over six innings ... In the series, Ceballos led the Cats with five hits, going 5-for-10 with a homer ... Littlejim drove in five runs to take over the team lead in the category with 32 ... Terrence Spurlin lifted a three-run home run Friday night to put K-State ahead 3-0 in the first inning of the series opener ... Game 1 of the series would later be suspended due to inclement weather and was resumed Saturday with the score 3-3 and two Baylor runners on base in the sixth inning ... When play resumed, the Bears drew a bases-loaded walk which would turn out to be the game-winning run ... K-State's win on Sunday improved its record to 6-6 against ranked teams, as it currently sits one game out of fifth place in the Big 12 standings with a 7-11 record.
A LOOK AT TEXAS SOUTHERN
Texas Southern (17-31) claimed two of three games against Arkansas-Pine Bluff in the Tigers' final regular-season conference weekend ... TSU has a record of 13-11 in the SWAC and has won five of its last seven games overall ... Oscar Ponce leads the Tigers with a .311 average to go with a .367 on-base percentage and .462 slugging percentage ... Olajide Oloruntimilehin has a team-best 13 home runs and 39 RBI while Christian Sanchez has hit 11 homers and driven in 34 ... The Tigers' pitching staff has a team ERA of 7.82 while opponents are hitting .325 against them ... TSU is 6-22 in true road games and 0-16 in non-conference road tests ... Texas Southern qualified for the NCAA Tournament last year, as it reached the Austin Regional.
A LOOK AT THE SERIES
Tuesday's meeting will mark the first-ever game between K-State and Texas Southern ... K-State is 4-0 all-time against teams from the Southwestern Athletic Conference, last sweeping a three-game home series with Arkansas-Pine Bluff in 2016.
FROM THE PEN
Through four games in the month of May, the K-State bullpen boasts a 2.16 ERA ... Over 16 2/3 innings, Wildcat relievers have allowed four earned runs on 14 hits with 10 strikeouts and four walks ... Opponents are hitting .230 against the bullpen in May while owning a 1-1 record with one save ... Jaxon Passino has allowed one hit and no runs over 4 2/3 innings while Mitch Zubradt has tossed 3 2/3 scoreless frames.
POWER SURGE
K-State hit a one home run in 15 of its last 16 games, including a stretch of 14 straight games before being snapped Saturday at Baylor ... The stretch of 14 consecutive games with a home run marked the Wildcats longest in the Big 12 era and is the longest by any team in the nation this season ... Brennan hit the Wildcats' first grand slam of the season on Wednesday against Wichita State ... K-State has hit 17 homers in the last 16 games, led by Cameron Thompson who has five over the stretch ... Prior to its three-homer game against Omaha on April 10, the K-State offense had just two home runs over its last 11 games - including a stretch of five consecutive outings without a bomb ... Zach Kokoska and Chris Ceballos lead the way with seven home runs, as K-State has tallied 40 on the season ... Thirty-three of K-State's 40 home runs this season have been hit by newcomers or by someone without a home run last season ... The Wildcats are 20-10 when hitting a home run and 6-1 when hitting multiple home runs.
LITTLEJIM, BIG BAT
With five RBI in the three-game series at Baylor, K-State junior Caleb Littlejim has taken over the team lead with 32 runs batted in ... Littlejim drove in three in Game 2 of the Baylor series and two more in the series finale ... Littlejim, who was exclusively a pitcher the last two seasons, has driven in multiple runs in three of his last four games ... He leads K-State with 12 multi-RBI games and has more games with two or more RBI than multi-hit games (7) ... Littlejim has a team-best 13 RBI in conference games and leads the team with a .447 average with runners in scoring position.
KOKO GOIN' LOCO
K-State sophomore Zach Kokoska has catapulted himself to the top of K-State's leaderboard in all three slash categories with a .331 average, .412 on-base percentage and a .527 slugging percentage ... Kokoska's season-long 12-game hitting streak came to an end at Oklahoma following an 0-for-4 effort ... It was the longest streak by any Wildcat this season ... The Latrobe, Pennsylvania, product is third on the team with 29 runs batted in and 15 multi-hit games ... Kokoska boasts a team-best .358 average in Big 12 games, with a team-high eight multi-hit games.
WINNING TIME
In K-State's 23 wins this season, the Wildcats are hitting .366 with runners in scoring position and .322 with two outs ... Conversely, the Cats have a .194 average with runners in scoring position while hitting .176 with two outs over 26 losses ... K-State has produced 65 two-out RBI in victories with just 23 in 26 losses ... Overall, K-State hits .304 in victories against just .224 in defeats ... In 26 losses, K-State pitchers have combined for 127 walks (5.1 per game) while in victories the staff averages 3.5 walks per game (83 walks in 23 wins) ... K-State had 13 two-out RBI against the Baylor Bears, including eight in its 10-3 win on Sunday ... K-State hit .364 with runners in scoring position at Baylor.
YOUNG GUNS
K-State freshmen Griffin Hassall and Jordan Wicks claimed back-to-back Big 12 Newcomer of the Week honors, April 15 and 22, respectively ... Against No. 19 TCU, Hassall went a career-long 7 2/3 innings pitched as he allowed one run on three hits to pick up his second straight win over a top-25 team ... Hassall struck out five with one walk issued ... In the series rubber match at No. 14 Texas, Wicks tossed a five-hit shutout of the Longhorns to clinch K-State's second-ever road series victory over a ranked team ... Wicks retired 14 of the last 15 batters he faced, including a stretch of 11 straight at one point ... K-State is 9-3 in games Wicks starts, who has a team-best seven quality outings in 12 starts.
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