Baylor
Oklahoma State
Baseball Corrals Cowboys 12-2
4/9/2004 12:00:00 AM | Baseball
April 9, 2004
WACO, Texas - Mike Pankratz went 4-for-4 with a home run and four RBI, and Sean Walker pitched 7.0 effective innings as Baylor pounded Oklahoma State 12-2 in the first game of a three-game Big 12 Conference series Friday night at Baylor Ballpark.
Baylor (14-18, 5-5) won its fourth straight game and third straight conference contest with a 14-hit night. Kyle Reynolds, Zach Dillon and Paul Witt joined Pankratz with multiple-hit games, knocking two hits each. Witt also drove in three, and Josh Ford scored three times.
Oklahoma State (20-12, 3-4) scored a run on a walk, a wild pitch and a Scott Kirby single in the top of the second. However, the Bears answered with four runs on three hits and a Cowboy error in the bottom of the frame. Witt had the big hit in the inning, a two-out bloop double down the right-field line that scored two runs.
Baylor tacked on three more in the third, thanks to RBI singles from Dillon, Pankratz and Witt, and two more in the fourth on a Reynolds run-scoring single and a Ford sacrifice fly. OSU scratched an unearned run in the top of the fifth before Baylor put single spots on the board in the fifth, sixth and eighth innings. The run in the fifth was on a Pankratz leadoff home run, his third of the season.
Walker (2-5) worked through spotty control and earned the victory, allowing two runs, one earned, on seven hits and two walks with five strikeouts. The junior right-hander used 106 pitches with 59 strikes and 47 balls. Zane Carlson and Jeff Mandel pitched the final two innings, respectively.
Oklahoma State starter Thomas Cowley (1-2) was run from the game in the third after allowing six runs, five earned, on four hits and four walks with two strikeouts in 2.1 innings. The Cowboys used six pitchers on the night.
Baylor and Oklahoma State meet for the second game of the series Saturday at 6 p.m. CDT. It will be dueling southpaws on the hill as the Bears start Trey Taylor (3-3) against Spencer Grogan (7-1).
Notes: Oklahoma State leads the all-time series 26-17 with a 10-8 advantage in games played in Waco. Baylor leads the series 11-10 in regular-season games as Big 12 opponents. ... Baylor has collected 10 or more hits in eight of its last 10 and 11 of its last 14 games. ... The Bears have at least one double in 17 straight games. ... Baylor moves to 13-4 this season when scoring five or more runs. ... Michael Griffin extended his season-long hitting streak to 11 games, matching Reid Brees for the longest run by a Bear this season. Mike Pankratz pushed his streak to six games with his first career four-hit game. Kyle Reynolds (six games) and Paul Witt (four games) also extended hitting streaks. ... Baylor is now hitting .338 in Big 12 games with 7.9 runs scored per game.
