Kansas State University Athletics
Thursday, May 20
Manhattan, KS
6 p.m.
Kansas State University
vs
TCU
K-State Hosts No. 5 TCU in Final Regular-Season Series
May 19, 2021 | Baseball
MANHATTAN, Kan. – In the final weekend series of the regular season, K-State will host fifth-ranked TCU in a three-game series starting Thursday at 6 p.m. at Tointon Family Stadium.
The Wildcats will honor their senior class prior to the series finale on Saturday at 4 p.m. The middle game of the series is slated for a 6 p.m. start Friday.
K-State (29-20, 8-13 Big 12) seeks its first 30-win season since 2013 while also looking to improve its seeding headed into next weekend's Phillips 66 Big 12 Baseball Championship in Oklahoma City.
TCU (35-14, 16-5 Big 12) enters the weekend in first place in the Big 12 standings and will be the Wildcats' third top-five conference opponent this season. K-State won two of three games in 2019 against the then-No. 19 Horned Frogs at Tointon Family Stadium.
All three games will be broadcast on Big 12 Now on ESPN+ and the ESPN app. Radio coverage is available on News Radio KMAN (93.3 FM, 1350 AM) with Thursday's contest carried on the K-State Sports Radio Network. Free, streaming audio is also available at K-StateSports.com/watch.
Single-game tickets are now on sale through the K-State Ticket Office at K-StateSports.com/tickets or by calling (800) 221-CATS. K-State, in coordination with University officials, has announced that Tointon Family Stadium will be open to full capacity for this weekend's series.
All tickets will be sold as general admission and masks are no longer required for fans who are fully vaccinated.
GAME #50
K-STATE (29-20, 8-13 BIG 12) vs. #5 TCU (35-14, 16-5 BIG 12)
Thursday, May 20 // 6 p.m. // Tointon Family Stadium (2,344) // Manhattan, Kan.
LHP Jordan Wicks (5-3, 3.42 ERA) vs. LHP Russell Smith (6-2, 3.65 ERA)
Watch: Big 12 Now on ESPN+ // Brian Smoller, Mike Clark
Radio: K-State Sports Radio Network // John Kurtz, Matt Walters
Listen Online: K-StateSports.com/watch // 1350KMAN.com
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GAME #51
K-STATE (29-20, 8-13 BIG 12) vs. #5 TCU (35-14, 16-5 BIG 12)
Friday, May 21 // 6 p.m. // Tointon Family Stadium (2,344) // Manhattan, Kan.
RHP Connor McCullough (5-3, 4.59 ERA) vs. LHP Austin Krob (7-1, 3.69 ERA)
Watch: Big 12 Now on ESPN+ // Brian Smoller, Mike Clark
Radio: KMAN (93.3 FM, 1350 AM) // John Kurtz, Matt Walters
Listen Online: K-StateSports.com/watch // 1350KMAN.com
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GAME #52
K-STATE (29-20, 8-13 BIG 12) vs. #5 TCU (35-14, 16-5 BIG 12)
Saturday, May 22 // 4 p.m. // Tointon Family Stadium (2,344) // Manhattan, Kan.
RHP Kasey Ford (4-2, 3.42 ERA) vs. TBA
Watch: Big 12 Now on ESPN+ // Brian Smoller, Mike Clark
Radio: KMAN (93.3 FM, 1350 AM) // John Kurtz, Matt Walters
Listen Online: K-StateSports.com/watch // 1350KMAN.com
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A LOOK AT K-STATE
K-State hosts TCU in the final regular-season weekend series at Tointon Family Stadium ... The Wildcats went 2-4 in a six-game Big 12 road swing, including winning one of three games against both Baylor and Kansas ... The Wildcats launched three home runs in a 6-2 win over KU on Saturday, putting the season total to 78 and breaking the program's single-season home runs record ... Dylan Phillips hit a pair of home runs, driving in three, and Zach Kokoska hit his team-leading 14th long ball of the season ... In the finale, Connor McCullough picked up his fifth win of the season after a quality start, going six innings with two earned runs allowed .. McCullough struck out four without a walk ... Eric Torres appeared twice in the series, each time logging 1 1/3 scoreless innings ... Tyler Eckberg picked up the save, his fifth of the year, going 1 2/3 innings without allowing a base runner ... The in-state rivals played a Friday doubleheader, with the Jayhawks shutting out the Cats in both contests ... KU claimed the opener 2-0 behind eight scoreless innings from Cole Larsen ... In the nightcap, Eli Davis tossed a seven-inning no-hitter in a 10-0 victory over K-State ... It marked the first time since K-State had been no-hit since the 2014 season against Texas ... With one week left in the regular season, the Wildcats sit in seventh place in the Big 12 standings - one game ahead of both Kansas and West Virginia and a game behind Oklahoma for sixth place.
SCOUTING TCU
TCU (35-14, 16-5 Big 12) enters the weekend series ranked as high as No. 5 in the national polls ... The Horned Frogs are currently at the top of the Big 12 standings, one game ahead of Texas, with three games to play ... TCU dropped a non-conference series to Louisiana-Monroe at home last weekend ... The Frogs have lost their last two weekend series, both at home, and have dropped four of their last six games overall ... Phillip Sikes is the team leader with his .349 batting average and Hunter Wolfe is second at .348 ... Sikes has a team-best 50 runs batted in and Brayden Taylor leads the Frogs with 10 homers ... The TCU offense ranks second in the league with its .293 average and is tops with 96 stolen bases (eighth nationally) ... Russell Smith (77) and Austin Krob (73) rank seventh and eighth, respectively, in the conference in strikeouts ... Krob is tied for the league lead with seven wins.
INSIDE THE SERIES
TCU leads the all-time series 20-9 (15-6 Big 12), going back to 1966 ... K-State is 6-6 at home against the Horned Frogs, taking two of three games in 2019 at Tointon Family Stadium ... The Wildcats rallied for a walk-off 11-10 victory in the series rubber game two seasons ago, the last meeting between the teams ... Prior to the 2019 series, the Frogs had won the previous nine meetings ... K-State has won three of four series in Manhattan, earning home series wins in both 2013 and 2015 in addition to 2019 ... The Cats have never swept the Frogs in a weekend series.
GIMME A BREAK, SCHEDULEMAKERS
K-State began its Big 12 schedule with three straight top-13 opponents - marking the toughest three-week stretch to start the league schedule in Big 12 history for any team (past or present Big 12 members) ... It has happened only three times in which a team has faced three straight top-13 teams to begin league play - and neither faced two top-five teams as the Wildcats did against No. 3 Texas Tech and No. 3 Texas in consecutive weekends ... Additionally, two of the Cats' first three conference series were on the road ... TCU marks K-State's fourth league opponent to be ranked in the nation's top 15 ... The Cats are 2-7 against ranked teams this season.
AGAINST RANKED TEAMS
TCU, ranked as high as fifth, will mark the fourth ranked conference team the Wildcats will face - all within the nation's top 13 ... The Frogs are the third top-five team K-State, as the Cats went 2-4 against then-No. 3 Texas Tech and Texas ... K-State claimed a series victory over TTU, winning the final two games of the series for its first top-five series win since 2015 and first over Tech since 2013 ... The Wildcats last picked up wins over two different top-five opponents in 2009 (No. 2 Texas, No. 4 Arizona State) ... Pete Hughes is 9-16 against ranked opponents as the head coach at K-State.
BIG BAT CATS
After going without a home run in the season's opening weekend (four games), the Wildcats have erupted for 78 home runs over the last 45 games ... Junior Zach Kokoska leads the way with 14 homers while sophomore Dylan Phillips has 13 ... Senior Cameron Thompson has 11 and senior Chris Ceballos has 10, as all four rank in the Big 12's top 10 with no other club having more than two ... Kokoska ranks third in the league with his 14 homers, which is tied for third-most in a single season in K-State history ... As a team, K-State has homered in 24 of the last 27 contests and has launched multiple home runs 17 times ... 16 different Cats have homered this season, with eight multi-homer games ... The 16 different players with a homer are a program single-season high and is the most of any team in the country this season ... K-State's 78 home runs are a single-season record and rank sixth in the country.
WE'RE GOIN' STREAKING
In the series finale at Baylor, Zach Kokoska saw his career-long on-base streak end at 41 games ... The streak was K-State's second-longest in the Big 12 era (Nick Martini, 93) and was the conference's second-longest this season ... Kokoska also had his string of seven straight multi-hit games snapped Sunday ... Earlier, this season, Dylan Phillips put together a 32-game on base streak that went back to last season and ended on March 27 at Oklahoma State ... K-State has had home run streaks of 12 and 11 games this season ... Its 12-game homer stretch ended Friday at KU and was the second-longest in the country this season behind 17 by Mercer (active) ... Chris Ceballos homered in six straight games from April 27-May 8, the longest by a Wildcat in the Big 12 era.
THE FRIENDLY CONFINES
K-State is 22-6 this year at Tointon Family Stadium, its highest win total since 27 in 2013 ... The Cats have won 14 of their last 16 home games and 20 of 24 overall ... At home, the Wildcat offense is hitting .321 while launching 60 home runs ... K-State has homered in 26 of its last 28 games at home ... K-State averages 8.8 runs per game and 11.0 hit a game at Tointon Family Stadium as opposed to 3.4 runs a game (6.5 hits/game) in road and neutral contests ... In true road games, the Cats average 3.2 runs a game with an average of .202 ... The K-State pitching staff boasts an ERA of 3.30 at home while the bullpen is even lower at 2.62.
KOKO BE LOCO
Junior outfielder Zach Kokoska's .369 average is fourth highest in the Big 12 while his .359 average in Big 12 games ranks eighth ... His 1.159 OPS is tops among the Big 12's top four hitters as he ranks in the league's top five in all three slash categories ... Kokoska's career-high four-hit day on May 8 at Baylor capped seven straight games with multiple hits ... He has hit safely in 23 of his last 27 games, recording multiple hits 14 times in that stretch ... In the last 10 games he is 17-for-35 (.486) with eight extra-base hits ... His 14 homers rank third in the conference and are tied for third-most in a single season in K-State history (record 16 set in 1997).
WICKY WICKY YEAH
K-State lefty Jordan Wicks racked up the preseason honors, including being named the 2021 Big 12 Co-Preseason Pitcher of the Year ... Wicks was tabbed a preseason all-American by D1Baseball, Baseball America, Collegiate Baseball and NCBWA ... The Conway, Ark., product is K-State's first preseason all-America nod since 2014 and the first Big 12 preseason of-the-year award winner ... Wicks was also one of 55 named to USA Baseball's Golden Spikes Award Watch List, which recognizes the nation's premier amateur player ... Following his 10-strikeout, seven scoreless innings against Oregon State on Opening Day, Wicks was named Big 12 Pitcher of the Week and National Pitcher of the Week by the NCBWA ... Wicks leads the Big 12 with his 102 strikeouts and has reached double-digit strikeouts four times after a career-best 11 vs. WVU ... His 102 strikeouts are the most in a single season in K-State history and he is just 10 strikeouts away from becoming the program's all-time strikeout king ... Last Friday's start marked his seventh quality outing in 13 starts this season ... In the last two seasons, Wicks is 8-3 with a 2.66 ERA (31 ER, 105 IP) with 128 strikeouts (17 starts).
FROM THE PEN
This season, the K-State bullpen owns an ERA of 5.27 while starters have a 4.37 earned run average ... In league play, starters have posted an ERA of 6.75 while the pen owns an 7.56 ERA ... At home, the K-State bullpen has a 2.62 ERA (34 ER, 116.2 IP) while posting an earned run average of 9.95 (73 ER, 66 IP) in road and neutral contests ... In the three-game series at Kansas, the bullpen did not allow a run over 5 2/3 innings ... The Cats' pen has a 13.14 earned run average in 12 road Big 12 contests ... Tyler Eckberg has allowed two earned runs over 15 1/3 innings with 14 strikeouts and one walk over his last eight outings ... With two scoreless relief appearances at KU, Eric Torres extended his scoreless streak to 15 2/3 innings and has yielded just three earned runs in his last 15 appearances (24.2 IP) ... Torres owned a 15.75 ERA through his first five outings (7 ER, 4 IP) and has lowered that number to 3.14.
BY TH3 NUM8ER5
K-State has a season run differential of +36 ... K-State is 19-5 when scoring the game's first run and has outscored opponents by 31 runs in the game's first two innings (81-50) ... K-State is 16-1 when hitting multiple home runs but 13-19 when hitting one or no homers ... When scoring at least six runs, K-State is 23-2 and 25-6 when limiting their opponent to five runs or fewer ... 75 of K-State's 86 two-out RBI have come in victories ... Just 29.9 percent (86 of 288) of the team's RBIs have come with two outs ... The Cats are hitting .297 with two outs in 29 wins and just .164 in 20 losses ... K-State's strikeout rate of 9.89 per nine innings would be tops in program history, ahead of the current record of 8.6 K/9 set in 1969 ... This season's strikeout total of 463 is the new program record, needing just 49 games to shatter the previous mark of 453 ... 130 of the Cats' 317 runs have come via the home run this season (41 percent).
30 FOR 30
The Wildcats sit just one win away from their first 30-win season since 2013 - their Big 12 championship and Super Regional season ... In 2013, K-State set a program record with 40 wins, its second 40-win season (2009) ... K-State has reached the 30-win plateau just nine times since the inception of the Big 12 in 1997 and only 16 times in the program's 121 seasons ... Each of the last four times the Cats have won at least 30 games, the team has qualified for the postseason.
The Wildcats will honor their senior class prior to the series finale on Saturday at 4 p.m. The middle game of the series is slated for a 6 p.m. start Friday.
K-State (29-20, 8-13 Big 12) seeks its first 30-win season since 2013 while also looking to improve its seeding headed into next weekend's Phillips 66 Big 12 Baseball Championship in Oklahoma City.
TCU (35-14, 16-5 Big 12) enters the weekend in first place in the Big 12 standings and will be the Wildcats' third top-five conference opponent this season. K-State won two of three games in 2019 against the then-No. 19 Horned Frogs at Tointon Family Stadium.
All three games will be broadcast on Big 12 Now on ESPN+ and the ESPN app. Radio coverage is available on News Radio KMAN (93.3 FM, 1350 AM) with Thursday's contest carried on the K-State Sports Radio Network. Free, streaming audio is also available at K-StateSports.com/watch.
Single-game tickets are now on sale through the K-State Ticket Office at K-StateSports.com/tickets or by calling (800) 221-CATS. K-State, in coordination with University officials, has announced that Tointon Family Stadium will be open to full capacity for this weekend's series.
All tickets will be sold as general admission and masks are no longer required for fans who are fully vaccinated.
GAME #50
K-STATE (29-20, 8-13 BIG 12) vs. #5 TCU (35-14, 16-5 BIG 12)
Thursday, May 20 // 6 p.m. // Tointon Family Stadium (2,344) // Manhattan, Kan.
LHP Jordan Wicks (5-3, 3.42 ERA) vs. LHP Russell Smith (6-2, 3.65 ERA)
Watch: Big 12 Now on ESPN+ // Brian Smoller, Mike Clark
Radio: K-State Sports Radio Network // John Kurtz, Matt Walters
Listen Online: K-StateSports.com/watch // 1350KMAN.com
Buy Tickets | Live Stats
GAME #51
K-STATE (29-20, 8-13 BIG 12) vs. #5 TCU (35-14, 16-5 BIG 12)
Friday, May 21 // 6 p.m. // Tointon Family Stadium (2,344) // Manhattan, Kan.
RHP Connor McCullough (5-3, 4.59 ERA) vs. LHP Austin Krob (7-1, 3.69 ERA)
Watch: Big 12 Now on ESPN+ // Brian Smoller, Mike Clark
Radio: KMAN (93.3 FM, 1350 AM) // John Kurtz, Matt Walters
Listen Online: K-StateSports.com/watch // 1350KMAN.com
Buy Tickets | Live Stats
GAME #52
K-STATE (29-20, 8-13 BIG 12) vs. #5 TCU (35-14, 16-5 BIG 12)
Saturday, May 22 // 4 p.m. // Tointon Family Stadium (2,344) // Manhattan, Kan.
RHP Kasey Ford (4-2, 3.42 ERA) vs. TBA
Watch: Big 12 Now on ESPN+ // Brian Smoller, Mike Clark
Radio: KMAN (93.3 FM, 1350 AM) // John Kurtz, Matt Walters
Listen Online: K-StateSports.com/watch // 1350KMAN.com
Buy Tickets | Live Stats
A LOOK AT K-STATE
K-State hosts TCU in the final regular-season weekend series at Tointon Family Stadium ... The Wildcats went 2-4 in a six-game Big 12 road swing, including winning one of three games against both Baylor and Kansas ... The Wildcats launched three home runs in a 6-2 win over KU on Saturday, putting the season total to 78 and breaking the program's single-season home runs record ... Dylan Phillips hit a pair of home runs, driving in three, and Zach Kokoska hit his team-leading 14th long ball of the season ... In the finale, Connor McCullough picked up his fifth win of the season after a quality start, going six innings with two earned runs allowed .. McCullough struck out four without a walk ... Eric Torres appeared twice in the series, each time logging 1 1/3 scoreless innings ... Tyler Eckberg picked up the save, his fifth of the year, going 1 2/3 innings without allowing a base runner ... The in-state rivals played a Friday doubleheader, with the Jayhawks shutting out the Cats in both contests ... KU claimed the opener 2-0 behind eight scoreless innings from Cole Larsen ... In the nightcap, Eli Davis tossed a seven-inning no-hitter in a 10-0 victory over K-State ... It marked the first time since K-State had been no-hit since the 2014 season against Texas ... With one week left in the regular season, the Wildcats sit in seventh place in the Big 12 standings - one game ahead of both Kansas and West Virginia and a game behind Oklahoma for sixth place.
SCOUTING TCU
TCU (35-14, 16-5 Big 12) enters the weekend series ranked as high as No. 5 in the national polls ... The Horned Frogs are currently at the top of the Big 12 standings, one game ahead of Texas, with three games to play ... TCU dropped a non-conference series to Louisiana-Monroe at home last weekend ... The Frogs have lost their last two weekend series, both at home, and have dropped four of their last six games overall ... Phillip Sikes is the team leader with his .349 batting average and Hunter Wolfe is second at .348 ... Sikes has a team-best 50 runs batted in and Brayden Taylor leads the Frogs with 10 homers ... The TCU offense ranks second in the league with its .293 average and is tops with 96 stolen bases (eighth nationally) ... Russell Smith (77) and Austin Krob (73) rank seventh and eighth, respectively, in the conference in strikeouts ... Krob is tied for the league lead with seven wins.
INSIDE THE SERIES
TCU leads the all-time series 20-9 (15-6 Big 12), going back to 1966 ... K-State is 6-6 at home against the Horned Frogs, taking two of three games in 2019 at Tointon Family Stadium ... The Wildcats rallied for a walk-off 11-10 victory in the series rubber game two seasons ago, the last meeting between the teams ... Prior to the 2019 series, the Frogs had won the previous nine meetings ... K-State has won three of four series in Manhattan, earning home series wins in both 2013 and 2015 in addition to 2019 ... The Cats have never swept the Frogs in a weekend series.
GIMME A BREAK, SCHEDULEMAKERS
K-State began its Big 12 schedule with three straight top-13 opponents - marking the toughest three-week stretch to start the league schedule in Big 12 history for any team (past or present Big 12 members) ... It has happened only three times in which a team has faced three straight top-13 teams to begin league play - and neither faced two top-five teams as the Wildcats did against No. 3 Texas Tech and No. 3 Texas in consecutive weekends ... Additionally, two of the Cats' first three conference series were on the road ... TCU marks K-State's fourth league opponent to be ranked in the nation's top 15 ... The Cats are 2-7 against ranked teams this season.
AGAINST RANKED TEAMS
TCU, ranked as high as fifth, will mark the fourth ranked conference team the Wildcats will face - all within the nation's top 13 ... The Frogs are the third top-five team K-State, as the Cats went 2-4 against then-No. 3 Texas Tech and Texas ... K-State claimed a series victory over TTU, winning the final two games of the series for its first top-five series win since 2015 and first over Tech since 2013 ... The Wildcats last picked up wins over two different top-five opponents in 2009 (No. 2 Texas, No. 4 Arizona State) ... Pete Hughes is 9-16 against ranked opponents as the head coach at K-State.
BIG BAT CATS
After going without a home run in the season's opening weekend (four games), the Wildcats have erupted for 78 home runs over the last 45 games ... Junior Zach Kokoska leads the way with 14 homers while sophomore Dylan Phillips has 13 ... Senior Cameron Thompson has 11 and senior Chris Ceballos has 10, as all four rank in the Big 12's top 10 with no other club having more than two ... Kokoska ranks third in the league with his 14 homers, which is tied for third-most in a single season in K-State history ... As a team, K-State has homered in 24 of the last 27 contests and has launched multiple home runs 17 times ... 16 different Cats have homered this season, with eight multi-homer games ... The 16 different players with a homer are a program single-season high and is the most of any team in the country this season ... K-State's 78 home runs are a single-season record and rank sixth in the country.
WE'RE GOIN' STREAKING
In the series finale at Baylor, Zach Kokoska saw his career-long on-base streak end at 41 games ... The streak was K-State's second-longest in the Big 12 era (Nick Martini, 93) and was the conference's second-longest this season ... Kokoska also had his string of seven straight multi-hit games snapped Sunday ... Earlier, this season, Dylan Phillips put together a 32-game on base streak that went back to last season and ended on March 27 at Oklahoma State ... K-State has had home run streaks of 12 and 11 games this season ... Its 12-game homer stretch ended Friday at KU and was the second-longest in the country this season behind 17 by Mercer (active) ... Chris Ceballos homered in six straight games from April 27-May 8, the longest by a Wildcat in the Big 12 era.
THE FRIENDLY CONFINES
K-State is 22-6 this year at Tointon Family Stadium, its highest win total since 27 in 2013 ... The Cats have won 14 of their last 16 home games and 20 of 24 overall ... At home, the Wildcat offense is hitting .321 while launching 60 home runs ... K-State has homered in 26 of its last 28 games at home ... K-State averages 8.8 runs per game and 11.0 hit a game at Tointon Family Stadium as opposed to 3.4 runs a game (6.5 hits/game) in road and neutral contests ... In true road games, the Cats average 3.2 runs a game with an average of .202 ... The K-State pitching staff boasts an ERA of 3.30 at home while the bullpen is even lower at 2.62.
KOKO BE LOCO
Junior outfielder Zach Kokoska's .369 average is fourth highest in the Big 12 while his .359 average in Big 12 games ranks eighth ... His 1.159 OPS is tops among the Big 12's top four hitters as he ranks in the league's top five in all three slash categories ... Kokoska's career-high four-hit day on May 8 at Baylor capped seven straight games with multiple hits ... He has hit safely in 23 of his last 27 games, recording multiple hits 14 times in that stretch ... In the last 10 games he is 17-for-35 (.486) with eight extra-base hits ... His 14 homers rank third in the conference and are tied for third-most in a single season in K-State history (record 16 set in 1997).
WICKY WICKY YEAH
K-State lefty Jordan Wicks racked up the preseason honors, including being named the 2021 Big 12 Co-Preseason Pitcher of the Year ... Wicks was tabbed a preseason all-American by D1Baseball, Baseball America, Collegiate Baseball and NCBWA ... The Conway, Ark., product is K-State's first preseason all-America nod since 2014 and the first Big 12 preseason of-the-year award winner ... Wicks was also one of 55 named to USA Baseball's Golden Spikes Award Watch List, which recognizes the nation's premier amateur player ... Following his 10-strikeout, seven scoreless innings against Oregon State on Opening Day, Wicks was named Big 12 Pitcher of the Week and National Pitcher of the Week by the NCBWA ... Wicks leads the Big 12 with his 102 strikeouts and has reached double-digit strikeouts four times after a career-best 11 vs. WVU ... His 102 strikeouts are the most in a single season in K-State history and he is just 10 strikeouts away from becoming the program's all-time strikeout king ... Last Friday's start marked his seventh quality outing in 13 starts this season ... In the last two seasons, Wicks is 8-3 with a 2.66 ERA (31 ER, 105 IP) with 128 strikeouts (17 starts).
FROM THE PEN
This season, the K-State bullpen owns an ERA of 5.27 while starters have a 4.37 earned run average ... In league play, starters have posted an ERA of 6.75 while the pen owns an 7.56 ERA ... At home, the K-State bullpen has a 2.62 ERA (34 ER, 116.2 IP) while posting an earned run average of 9.95 (73 ER, 66 IP) in road and neutral contests ... In the three-game series at Kansas, the bullpen did not allow a run over 5 2/3 innings ... The Cats' pen has a 13.14 earned run average in 12 road Big 12 contests ... Tyler Eckberg has allowed two earned runs over 15 1/3 innings with 14 strikeouts and one walk over his last eight outings ... With two scoreless relief appearances at KU, Eric Torres extended his scoreless streak to 15 2/3 innings and has yielded just three earned runs in his last 15 appearances (24.2 IP) ... Torres owned a 15.75 ERA through his first five outings (7 ER, 4 IP) and has lowered that number to 3.14.
BY TH3 NUM8ER5
K-State has a season run differential of +36 ... K-State is 19-5 when scoring the game's first run and has outscored opponents by 31 runs in the game's first two innings (81-50) ... K-State is 16-1 when hitting multiple home runs but 13-19 when hitting one or no homers ... When scoring at least six runs, K-State is 23-2 and 25-6 when limiting their opponent to five runs or fewer ... 75 of K-State's 86 two-out RBI have come in victories ... Just 29.9 percent (86 of 288) of the team's RBIs have come with two outs ... The Cats are hitting .297 with two outs in 29 wins and just .164 in 20 losses ... K-State's strikeout rate of 9.89 per nine innings would be tops in program history, ahead of the current record of 8.6 K/9 set in 1969 ... This season's strikeout total of 463 is the new program record, needing just 49 games to shatter the previous mark of 453 ... 130 of the Cats' 317 runs have come via the home run this season (41 percent).
30 FOR 30
The Wildcats sit just one win away from their first 30-win season since 2013 - their Big 12 championship and Super Regional season ... In 2013, K-State set a program record with 40 wins, its second 40-win season (2009) ... K-State has reached the 30-win plateau just nine times since the inception of the Big 12 in 1997 and only 16 times in the program's 121 seasons ... Each of the last four times the Cats have won at least 30 games, the team has qualified for the postseason.
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