Kansas State University Athletics
Thursday, April 14
Manhattan, Kan.
6 p.m.
Kansas State University
vs
Texas
K-State Finishes First Half of Big 12 Slate with No. 7 Texas
Apr 13, 2022 | Baseball
MANHATTAN, Kan. – K-State returns to Tointon Family Stadium to host No. 7 Texas, finishing the first half of its Big 12 schedule, as the teams kick off a three-game series starting Thursday at 6 p.m.
The Wildcats will conclude the toughest conference-opening slate in the history of the Big 12, as the Longhorns represent the fourth consecutive top-20 opponent – and third straight ranked in the top 10. Texas was the unanimous preseason No. 1 team in the country and the conference favorite in the Big 12 preseason coaches' poll.
The second game of the series is set for Friday at 6 p.m. before the series wraps up Saturday at 4 p.m.
K-State is 11-3 at home this season, going 1-2 in its only home league series against sixth-ranked Oklahoma State. The Cats dropped all three games at No. 4 Texas Tech last weekend in Lubbock.
With construction ongoing on the new Morgan Family Arena, parking for baseball games at Tointon Family Stadium will be impacted during the 2022 season.
Fans are advised to park in the west parking lot of Bill Snyder Stadium and do so by entering through Gate 3 via College Avenue across from Ascension Via Christi Hospital. Gate 1 and Gate 2 will be closed for the duration of the 2022 baseball season.
When proceeding to the stadium on foot, fans are advised to exit the west parking lot along the pedestrian path between Gate 1 and Gate 2 and then proceed to the stadium via the sidewalk along College Avenue.
Tickets are now on sale for the entire 2022 season and start at just $5 when purchased in advance at K-StateSports.com/Tickets, by calling 800-221-CATS or visiting the K-State Athletics Ticket Office.
All three games of the series will be carried on Big 12 Now on ESPN+ and the ESPN app. Saturday's game will be carried on the K-State Sports Radio Network and on SiriusXM Big 12 Radio channel 375. Live streaming audio is available free at K-StateSports.com/watch and on the K-State Sports app.
GAME #32
K-STATE (15-16, 1-8 BIG 12) vs. #7 TEXAS (25-10, 5-4 BIG 12)
Thursday, April 14 // 6 p.m. // Tointon Family Stadium (2,334) // Manhattan, Kan.
Projected Starters: RHP Griffin Hassall (3-4, 4.70 ERA) vs. LHP Pete Hansen (6-0, 2.08 ERA)
Watch: Big 12 Now on ESPN+ // Brian Smoller, Mike Clark
Radio: News Radio KMAN (93.3 FM, 1350 AM) // Matt Walters, Trevor Hurley
Listen Online: K-StateSports.com/Watch // 1350KMAN.com
Live Stats | Tickets
GAME #33
K-STATE (15-16, 1-8 BIG 12) vs. #7 TEXAS (25-10, 5-4 BIG 12)
Friday, April 15 // 6 p.m. // Tointon Family Stadium (2,334) // Manhattan, Kan.
Projected Starters: RHP Blake Adams (3-4, 4.12 ERA) vs. RHP Tristan Stevens (2-1, 4.15 ERA)
Watch: Big 12 Now on ESPN+ // Brian Smoller, Mike Clark
Radio: News Radio KMAN (93.3 FM, 1350 AM) // Matt Walters, Trevor Hurley
Listen Online: K-StateSports.com/Watch // 1350KMAN.com
Live Stats | Tickets
GAME #34
K-STATE (15-16, 1-8 BIG 12) vs. #7 TEXAS (25-10, 5-4 BIG 12)
Saturday, April 16 // 4 p.m. // Tointon Family Stadium (2,334) // Manhattan, Kan.
Projected Starters: RHP Connor McCullough (3-1, 3.66 ERA) vs. LHP Lucas Gordon (2-1, 2.63 ERA)
Watch: Big 12 Now on ESPN+ // Brian Smoller, Mike Clark
Radio: K-State Sports Radio Network/SXM Channel 375 // Matt Walters, Trevor Hurley
Listen Online: K-StateSports.com/Watch // 1350KMAN.com
Live Stats | Tickets
A LOOK AT K-STATE
K-State returns to Tointon Family Stadium, as the Wildcats host No. 7 Texas in a three-game series starting Thursday ... The Longhorns mark the fourth consecutive top-20 conference opponent K-State will face and the third straight ranked in the nation's top 10, completing the most difficult opening schedule in Big 12 history ... Last weekend, the Cats lost three games at fourth-ranked Texas Tech at Dan Law Field at Rip Griffin Park ... K-State held a 3-1 lead in the sixth inning in the series opener before Texas Tech responded with a four-run sixth and later finished with a 6-3 victory ... After being shut out for the first time all season on Saturday (14-0), K-State raced out to a 5-2 lead as the game hit the seventh-inning stretch and later possessed a 6-4 lead going to the bottom of the ninth inning ... The Red Raiders again rallied, scoring three in the ninth, capped by a walk-off, two-run homer from Big 12 Preseason Player of the Year Jace Jung ... The Cats fell to 0-6 on the road through two conference road series and sit with a 1-8 league record ... K-State's offense hit just .227 against Texas Tech with six extra-base hits in three game (four doubles, two home runs) ... Both homers and three of four doubles came in Sunday's series finale ... Nick Goodwin and Dominic Johnson each lifted solo home runs while Justin Mitchell and Dylan Phillips led the offense with four hits apiece ... Griffin Hassall allowed just three hits and one earned run over his 5 1/3 innings in the start Friday night ... Blake Adams, who has made six weekend starts, was tagged for two losses in the series, as he came on in relief in games one and three ... K-State is now 4-13 away from home this season (4-10 in true road games) and 0-4 in one-run contests.
SCOUTING TEXAS
Seventh-ranked Texas (25-10, 5-4 Big 12), who was the preseason favorite to win the Big 12, enters the weekend having won five of its last six contests, including a home series victory over TCU ... The Longhorns lead the Big 12 in hitting (.320), home runs (57) and slugging percentage (.540) while ranking second in on-base percentage (.413) and RBI (263) ... Ivan Melendez is the national leader with 16 home runs and leads the conference with his 50 RBI and .863 slugging percentage ... UT's pitching staff also paces the Big 12 with a team ERA of 3.47 while combining for a league-best six shutouts (no other team has more than two) ... Lefty Pete Hansen, who will start Thursday, is the reigning Big 12 Pitcher of the Week after logging a two-hit shutout of TCU last Friday ... Texas is 11-7 away from home (9-6 in true road games) and was the unanimous preseason No. 1 team in the country in the national polls.
INSIDE THE SERIES
Texas leads the all-time series 60-20-1 (50-20-1 Big 12), dating back to 1985 ... At home, K-State is 9-23 against the Longhorns, while the Wildcats claimed two of three games in the last series played at Tointon Family Stadium in 2018 ... It marked just the second time that the Cats have clinched a home series victory against UT (1998, 2018) ... Overall, K-State has won two of the last three series against Texas after winning two of three in Austin in 2019 ... A season ago, the Longhorns earned a series sweep at UFCU Disch-Falk Field ... K-State is 4-6 over the last 10 games in the series while head coach Pete Hughes is 2-4 against UT.
AGAINST RANKED TEAMS
Texas, ranked as high as No. 7 in the national polls, will be the fourth straight top-20 opponent K-State will meet to open Big 12 play - and the third consecutive ranked in the nation's top 10 ... Last weekend, the Wildcats dropped all three contests at No. 4 Texas Tech .... Against teams ranked in the top 25, K-State is 1-9 with a record against the top 10 ... The Wildcats picked up a victory over No. 6 Oklahoma State on April 4 (7-2), marking the Cats' first ranked win of the season and the 14th top-25 win under fourth-year head coach Pete Hughes ... Additionally, K-State has picked up nine victories over the nation's top 10 under Hughes ... The Wildcats opened the season against No. 10 Arizona at the State Farm College Baseball Showdown, dropping a 8-6 decision ... Last season, the Wildcats went 6-10 against ranked opponents - all of which were in the top 10 ... Four of the Cats' top-10 wins came over the season's final eight games ... Hughes is 14-27 against top-25 squads and 9-15 against the nation's top 10 over his four seasons in Manhattan ... Two of Hughes' top-25 wins have come against Texas.
KING WHAMMER
Against Oklahoma State on April 2, Dylan Phillips belted two home runs to become K-State's all-time home run leader ... Phillips tied Scott Poepard's record of 37 in the April 1 contest before breaking it in the first inning Saturday ... Poepard's record had stood since 1997 (25 years), as Phillips now has 40 career homers after his three-run shot against Creighton ... Phillips now owns seven career multi-homer games and two this season ... His record-breaking performance earned him Big 12 Player of the Week honors, the first weekly award of his career ... Phillips has hit five home runs over his last nine games ... His 40 career homers rank ninth among active players in Division I and tops in the Big 12 ... The Omaha product tied the program's single-season home run record last season with 16 bombs, ranking second in the Big 12 ... His 16 homers were the most by a Wildcat since Poepard and Heath Schesser both did it during the 1997 season ... Phillips was K-State's lone representative on the Preseason All-Big 12 Team while also earning Preseason Third Team All-America honors from Collegiate Baseball.
NO HELP FROM THE SCHEDULE-MAKERS
For the second straight year, K-State will begin its Big 12 slate with the toughest opening stretch in conference history (past or present Big 12 members) ... All four of K-State's first four foes are ranked in the top 20, including each of the last three being in the top 10 in Oklahoma State, Texas and Texas Tech ... In 2021, K-State faced three consecutive top-13 teams in No. 13 Oklahoma State, No. 3 Texas, and No. 3 Texas Tech ... Additionally, two of K-State's first three league series will be away from home, as the Cats opened their Big 12 schedule away from home for the fifth straight year (since 2016) and the ninth time in the last 10 seasons overall.
BOMBS ARE BACK
K-State ranks third in the Big 12 with 42 home runs this season, with 27 coming over its last 15 games ... The Wildcat offense managed just one homer over the season's first five games and turned in seven over their first 10 games ... Thirteen times the Cats have hit multiple home runs, including five of their last seven contests ... K-State has 14 homers over its last seven games ... In total, 13 different players have hit at least one home runs this season and 12 players have homered over the team's last 15 games ... A season ago, K-State launched a single-season program record 89 bombs and recorded 44 homers over the first 28 games a season ago.
MIDTERM CHECK-UP
Through 31 games last year, the K-State offense was hitting .269 with 47 home runs hit by 13 different players ... This season through 31 games, the Wildcats are hitting .289 with 42 homers hit by 13 different players ... The pitching staff, who set a single-season record with 541 strikeouts last season, had punched out 291 batters (9.7 strikeouts per nine innings) ... This season, that strikeout total has reached 308 through the same number of contests (10.2 strikeouts per nine innings) ... With runners in scoring position, K-State hit .232 through 31 games last season ... The Cats have raised that number to .303 this season.
THE DOMINATOR
Dominic Johnson, who hit leadoff in all but one contest this season, leads the team in average, on-base percentage, doubles, extra-base hits, stolen bases and runs scored ... The Oklahoma State transfer is 13th nationally with 15 doubles and 20th in doubles per game (0.48) ... He is third in the Big 12 in hitting at .392 ... Johnson has registered multiple hits in 14 of his last 22 games and is the team leader with 18 multi-hit games, which is second-most in the conference ... His 16-game hitting streak came to an end in the series finale at TCU, and has been held hitless just four times this season ... Johnson also leads the team in hitting with runners in scoring position at .560 (14-for-25).
HOME COOKIN'
K-State has won 11 of 14 home games this season, including winning its first seven home tilts - the team's longest winning streak to begin its home slate since 2014 ... The Wildcats began their home slate 9-1 for the second straight season ... At home, the Wildcat offense is hitting .313 and slugging .595 with 30 home runs ... K-State averages 7.6 runs a game on 10.6 hits at Tointon Family Stadium ... Conversely, the Cats are hitting .269 and slugging .410 in games away from home, averaging 4.9 runs per game and 9.3 hits a game ... The Wildcat bullpen boasts a 4.40 ERA at home, striking out 76 compared to 35 walks ... In road and neutral contest, K-State relievers have a combined ERA of 8.78 with 81 strikeouts and 58 walks ... K-State has homered in 12 of 14 home games while 30 of its 42 home runs have come at Tointon Family Stadium ... Dominic Johnson leads the Wildcats in hitting at .448 at home while Cole Johnson is next at .431.
NUMBER NUGGETS
K-State has a -3 run differential through 31 games this season after being outscored by 18 runs last weekend at Texas Tech ... The Wildcats have outscored opponents 27-13 in the second inning alone and 36-30 from the eighth inning on ... The Cats are 13-7 when hitting a home run and 9-4 when hitting multiple homers ... K-State has won seven of eight games in which it has not committed an error while going 4-11 when committing multiple errors ... When holding opponents to five or fewer runs, the Wildcats are 12-3 ... Conversely, K-State has a record of 2-11 when scoring five or fewer runs in a game and is 13-5 when scoring at least six runs ... The Cats are winless (0-4) in one-run games and 4-8 in games decided by two runs or less ... Fourteen of K-State's 42 home runs have been game-tying or go-ahead home runs.
BOSS HOGS
K-State features a pair of Arkansas transfers and natives in its weekend rotation in Blake Adams and Connor McCullough ... In 14 total starts, the duo has a combined record of 5-3 and an ERA of 3.44 and 87 strikeouts with 29 walks (in starts only) ... Adams and McCullough have carded eight quality starts between them, as Adams has turned in a quality outing in four of his last five starts while McCullough has done so in three of his last five ... Against Morehead State earlier this season, McCullough matched his career-high with seven innings pitched and was one strikeout away from his career high (8) ... McCullough is seventh in the Big 12 with 46 2/3 innings while Adams is eighth with 50 strikeouts.
The Wildcats will conclude the toughest conference-opening slate in the history of the Big 12, as the Longhorns represent the fourth consecutive top-20 opponent – and third straight ranked in the top 10. Texas was the unanimous preseason No. 1 team in the country and the conference favorite in the Big 12 preseason coaches' poll.
The second game of the series is set for Friday at 6 p.m. before the series wraps up Saturday at 4 p.m.
K-State is 11-3 at home this season, going 1-2 in its only home league series against sixth-ranked Oklahoma State. The Cats dropped all three games at No. 4 Texas Tech last weekend in Lubbock.
With construction ongoing on the new Morgan Family Arena, parking for baseball games at Tointon Family Stadium will be impacted during the 2022 season.
Fans are advised to park in the west parking lot of Bill Snyder Stadium and do so by entering through Gate 3 via College Avenue across from Ascension Via Christi Hospital. Gate 1 and Gate 2 will be closed for the duration of the 2022 baseball season.
When proceeding to the stadium on foot, fans are advised to exit the west parking lot along the pedestrian path between Gate 1 and Gate 2 and then proceed to the stadium via the sidewalk along College Avenue.
Tickets are now on sale for the entire 2022 season and start at just $5 when purchased in advance at K-StateSports.com/Tickets, by calling 800-221-CATS or visiting the K-State Athletics Ticket Office.
All three games of the series will be carried on Big 12 Now on ESPN+ and the ESPN app. Saturday's game will be carried on the K-State Sports Radio Network and on SiriusXM Big 12 Radio channel 375. Live streaming audio is available free at K-StateSports.com/watch and on the K-State Sports app.
GAME #32
K-STATE (15-16, 1-8 BIG 12) vs. #7 TEXAS (25-10, 5-4 BIG 12)
Thursday, April 14 // 6 p.m. // Tointon Family Stadium (2,334) // Manhattan, Kan.
Projected Starters: RHP Griffin Hassall (3-4, 4.70 ERA) vs. LHP Pete Hansen (6-0, 2.08 ERA)
Watch: Big 12 Now on ESPN+ // Brian Smoller, Mike Clark
Radio: News Radio KMAN (93.3 FM, 1350 AM) // Matt Walters, Trevor Hurley
Listen Online: K-StateSports.com/Watch // 1350KMAN.com
Live Stats | Tickets
GAME #33
K-STATE (15-16, 1-8 BIG 12) vs. #7 TEXAS (25-10, 5-4 BIG 12)
Friday, April 15 // 6 p.m. // Tointon Family Stadium (2,334) // Manhattan, Kan.
Projected Starters: RHP Blake Adams (3-4, 4.12 ERA) vs. RHP Tristan Stevens (2-1, 4.15 ERA)
Watch: Big 12 Now on ESPN+ // Brian Smoller, Mike Clark
Radio: News Radio KMAN (93.3 FM, 1350 AM) // Matt Walters, Trevor Hurley
Listen Online: K-StateSports.com/Watch // 1350KMAN.com
Live Stats | Tickets
GAME #34
K-STATE (15-16, 1-8 BIG 12) vs. #7 TEXAS (25-10, 5-4 BIG 12)
Saturday, April 16 // 4 p.m. // Tointon Family Stadium (2,334) // Manhattan, Kan.
Projected Starters: RHP Connor McCullough (3-1, 3.66 ERA) vs. LHP Lucas Gordon (2-1, 2.63 ERA)
Watch: Big 12 Now on ESPN+ // Brian Smoller, Mike Clark
Radio: K-State Sports Radio Network/SXM Channel 375 // Matt Walters, Trevor Hurley
Listen Online: K-StateSports.com/Watch // 1350KMAN.com
Live Stats | Tickets
A LOOK AT K-STATE
K-State returns to Tointon Family Stadium, as the Wildcats host No. 7 Texas in a three-game series starting Thursday ... The Longhorns mark the fourth consecutive top-20 conference opponent K-State will face and the third straight ranked in the nation's top 10, completing the most difficult opening schedule in Big 12 history ... Last weekend, the Cats lost three games at fourth-ranked Texas Tech at Dan Law Field at Rip Griffin Park ... K-State held a 3-1 lead in the sixth inning in the series opener before Texas Tech responded with a four-run sixth and later finished with a 6-3 victory ... After being shut out for the first time all season on Saturday (14-0), K-State raced out to a 5-2 lead as the game hit the seventh-inning stretch and later possessed a 6-4 lead going to the bottom of the ninth inning ... The Red Raiders again rallied, scoring three in the ninth, capped by a walk-off, two-run homer from Big 12 Preseason Player of the Year Jace Jung ... The Cats fell to 0-6 on the road through two conference road series and sit with a 1-8 league record ... K-State's offense hit just .227 against Texas Tech with six extra-base hits in three game (four doubles, two home runs) ... Both homers and three of four doubles came in Sunday's series finale ... Nick Goodwin and Dominic Johnson each lifted solo home runs while Justin Mitchell and Dylan Phillips led the offense with four hits apiece ... Griffin Hassall allowed just three hits and one earned run over his 5 1/3 innings in the start Friday night ... Blake Adams, who has made six weekend starts, was tagged for two losses in the series, as he came on in relief in games one and three ... K-State is now 4-13 away from home this season (4-10 in true road games) and 0-4 in one-run contests.
SCOUTING TEXAS
Seventh-ranked Texas (25-10, 5-4 Big 12), who was the preseason favorite to win the Big 12, enters the weekend having won five of its last six contests, including a home series victory over TCU ... The Longhorns lead the Big 12 in hitting (.320), home runs (57) and slugging percentage (.540) while ranking second in on-base percentage (.413) and RBI (263) ... Ivan Melendez is the national leader with 16 home runs and leads the conference with his 50 RBI and .863 slugging percentage ... UT's pitching staff also paces the Big 12 with a team ERA of 3.47 while combining for a league-best six shutouts (no other team has more than two) ... Lefty Pete Hansen, who will start Thursday, is the reigning Big 12 Pitcher of the Week after logging a two-hit shutout of TCU last Friday ... Texas is 11-7 away from home (9-6 in true road games) and was the unanimous preseason No. 1 team in the country in the national polls.
INSIDE THE SERIES
Texas leads the all-time series 60-20-1 (50-20-1 Big 12), dating back to 1985 ... At home, K-State is 9-23 against the Longhorns, while the Wildcats claimed two of three games in the last series played at Tointon Family Stadium in 2018 ... It marked just the second time that the Cats have clinched a home series victory against UT (1998, 2018) ... Overall, K-State has won two of the last three series against Texas after winning two of three in Austin in 2019 ... A season ago, the Longhorns earned a series sweep at UFCU Disch-Falk Field ... K-State is 4-6 over the last 10 games in the series while head coach Pete Hughes is 2-4 against UT.
AGAINST RANKED TEAMS
Texas, ranked as high as No. 7 in the national polls, will be the fourth straight top-20 opponent K-State will meet to open Big 12 play - and the third consecutive ranked in the nation's top 10 ... Last weekend, the Wildcats dropped all three contests at No. 4 Texas Tech .... Against teams ranked in the top 25, K-State is 1-9 with a record against the top 10 ... The Wildcats picked up a victory over No. 6 Oklahoma State on April 4 (7-2), marking the Cats' first ranked win of the season and the 14th top-25 win under fourth-year head coach Pete Hughes ... Additionally, K-State has picked up nine victories over the nation's top 10 under Hughes ... The Wildcats opened the season against No. 10 Arizona at the State Farm College Baseball Showdown, dropping a 8-6 decision ... Last season, the Wildcats went 6-10 against ranked opponents - all of which were in the top 10 ... Four of the Cats' top-10 wins came over the season's final eight games ... Hughes is 14-27 against top-25 squads and 9-15 against the nation's top 10 over his four seasons in Manhattan ... Two of Hughes' top-25 wins have come against Texas.
KING WHAMMER
Against Oklahoma State on April 2, Dylan Phillips belted two home runs to become K-State's all-time home run leader ... Phillips tied Scott Poepard's record of 37 in the April 1 contest before breaking it in the first inning Saturday ... Poepard's record had stood since 1997 (25 years), as Phillips now has 40 career homers after his three-run shot against Creighton ... Phillips now owns seven career multi-homer games and two this season ... His record-breaking performance earned him Big 12 Player of the Week honors, the first weekly award of his career ... Phillips has hit five home runs over his last nine games ... His 40 career homers rank ninth among active players in Division I and tops in the Big 12 ... The Omaha product tied the program's single-season home run record last season with 16 bombs, ranking second in the Big 12 ... His 16 homers were the most by a Wildcat since Poepard and Heath Schesser both did it during the 1997 season ... Phillips was K-State's lone representative on the Preseason All-Big 12 Team while also earning Preseason Third Team All-America honors from Collegiate Baseball.
NO HELP FROM THE SCHEDULE-MAKERS
For the second straight year, K-State will begin its Big 12 slate with the toughest opening stretch in conference history (past or present Big 12 members) ... All four of K-State's first four foes are ranked in the top 20, including each of the last three being in the top 10 in Oklahoma State, Texas and Texas Tech ... In 2021, K-State faced three consecutive top-13 teams in No. 13 Oklahoma State, No. 3 Texas, and No. 3 Texas Tech ... Additionally, two of K-State's first three league series will be away from home, as the Cats opened their Big 12 schedule away from home for the fifth straight year (since 2016) and the ninth time in the last 10 seasons overall.
BOMBS ARE BACK
K-State ranks third in the Big 12 with 42 home runs this season, with 27 coming over its last 15 games ... The Wildcat offense managed just one homer over the season's first five games and turned in seven over their first 10 games ... Thirteen times the Cats have hit multiple home runs, including five of their last seven contests ... K-State has 14 homers over its last seven games ... In total, 13 different players have hit at least one home runs this season and 12 players have homered over the team's last 15 games ... A season ago, K-State launched a single-season program record 89 bombs and recorded 44 homers over the first 28 games a season ago.
MIDTERM CHECK-UP
Through 31 games last year, the K-State offense was hitting .269 with 47 home runs hit by 13 different players ... This season through 31 games, the Wildcats are hitting .289 with 42 homers hit by 13 different players ... The pitching staff, who set a single-season record with 541 strikeouts last season, had punched out 291 batters (9.7 strikeouts per nine innings) ... This season, that strikeout total has reached 308 through the same number of contests (10.2 strikeouts per nine innings) ... With runners in scoring position, K-State hit .232 through 31 games last season ... The Cats have raised that number to .303 this season.
THE DOMINATOR
Dominic Johnson, who hit leadoff in all but one contest this season, leads the team in average, on-base percentage, doubles, extra-base hits, stolen bases and runs scored ... The Oklahoma State transfer is 13th nationally with 15 doubles and 20th in doubles per game (0.48) ... He is third in the Big 12 in hitting at .392 ... Johnson has registered multiple hits in 14 of his last 22 games and is the team leader with 18 multi-hit games, which is second-most in the conference ... His 16-game hitting streak came to an end in the series finale at TCU, and has been held hitless just four times this season ... Johnson also leads the team in hitting with runners in scoring position at .560 (14-for-25).
HOME COOKIN'
K-State has won 11 of 14 home games this season, including winning its first seven home tilts - the team's longest winning streak to begin its home slate since 2014 ... The Wildcats began their home slate 9-1 for the second straight season ... At home, the Wildcat offense is hitting .313 and slugging .595 with 30 home runs ... K-State averages 7.6 runs a game on 10.6 hits at Tointon Family Stadium ... Conversely, the Cats are hitting .269 and slugging .410 in games away from home, averaging 4.9 runs per game and 9.3 hits a game ... The Wildcat bullpen boasts a 4.40 ERA at home, striking out 76 compared to 35 walks ... In road and neutral contest, K-State relievers have a combined ERA of 8.78 with 81 strikeouts and 58 walks ... K-State has homered in 12 of 14 home games while 30 of its 42 home runs have come at Tointon Family Stadium ... Dominic Johnson leads the Wildcats in hitting at .448 at home while Cole Johnson is next at .431.
NUMBER NUGGETS
K-State has a -3 run differential through 31 games this season after being outscored by 18 runs last weekend at Texas Tech ... The Wildcats have outscored opponents 27-13 in the second inning alone and 36-30 from the eighth inning on ... The Cats are 13-7 when hitting a home run and 9-4 when hitting multiple homers ... K-State has won seven of eight games in which it has not committed an error while going 4-11 when committing multiple errors ... When holding opponents to five or fewer runs, the Wildcats are 12-3 ... Conversely, K-State has a record of 2-11 when scoring five or fewer runs in a game and is 13-5 when scoring at least six runs ... The Cats are winless (0-4) in one-run games and 4-8 in games decided by two runs or less ... Fourteen of K-State's 42 home runs have been game-tying or go-ahead home runs.
BOSS HOGS
K-State features a pair of Arkansas transfers and natives in its weekend rotation in Blake Adams and Connor McCullough ... In 14 total starts, the duo has a combined record of 5-3 and an ERA of 3.44 and 87 strikeouts with 29 walks (in starts only) ... Adams and McCullough have carded eight quality starts between them, as Adams has turned in a quality outing in four of his last five starts while McCullough has done so in three of his last five ... Against Morehead State earlier this season, McCullough matched his career-high with seven innings pitched and was one strikeout away from his career high (8) ... McCullough is seventh in the Big 12 with 46 2/3 innings while Adams is eighth with 50 strikeouts.
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