Baseball Hosts Dallas Baptist Before Exams Break
5/3/2004 12:00:00 AM | Baseball
BAYLOR (22-23)
vs.
DALLAS BAPTIST (38-14)
7:00 p.m. CDT * May 4, 2004
Baylor Ballpark * Waco, Texas
Radio: KRZI-AM (1580/1660)
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Baylor returns home Tuesday for a 7 p.m. CDT contest against Dallas Baptist at Baylor Ballpark. The Bears (22-23) have won 12 of their last 16, including two of three over the weekend at Kansas State. The Patriots (38-14) have dropped five of their last seven, but righted the ship and took two of three at home against Panhandle State over the weekend. This is the second meeting between Baylor and Dallas Baptist. The Patriots were 2-0 winners two weeks ago at Baylor Ballpark. All Baylor baseball games are carried via radio in Central Texas on KRZI 1660/1580 AM. GameTracker also is available for all games at www.BaylorBears.com, the official website of Baylor Athletics and a member of the Official College Sports Network.
PROBABLE PITCHING MATCHUP BU LHP Jared Theodorakos (3-2, 4.24) DBU RHP Lance Broadway (8-2, 3.18)
QUICK NOTES
* Baylor and Dallas Baptist meet for the 56th time Tuesday; the Bears hold a 36-19 advantage in the all-time series, 25-14 in Waco and 7-5 in head coach Steve Smith's tenure.
* SS Kyle Reynolds (eight games), DH Josh Ford (seven games), LF Reid Brees (four games) and 1B Drew Sutton (three games) are all riding hitting streaks entering Tuesday's game. Ford's is a season long.
* 2B Paul Witt (nine games) and CF Kevin Sevigny (six games) saw hitting streaks end Sunday; both were career long streaks.
* Baylor is 7-0 this season in games in which DH Josh Ford hits a home run. ... Ford has reached safely in 16 consecutive starts.
* 2B Paul Witt is hitting .346 (27-for-78) with 16 runs scored, seven doubles, 12 RBI, a .401 on base percentage and six stolen bases in 10 attempts over the last 21 games, all starts.
* CF Chase Gerdes has hit safely in 11 of 13 games this season when getting at least two at bats. In just four weeks of action, Gerdes has tallied seven infield hits, tops on the team.
* 3B Michael Griffin has six multiple-hit games in his last 12 contests. He and 1B Drew Sutton share the team lead with 17 multiple-hit games.
* RF Mike Pankratz has reached safely in 16 of his last 18 games.
* After going hitless in each of his first five starts this season, SS Kyle Reynolds has hit safely in 28 of his last 32 starts, including 20 of the last 21.
* 2B Drew Sutton has reached safely in 39 of 45 games this season.
* CF Kevin Sevigny has reached safely in seven consecutive starts.
* LHP Trey Taylor has allowed no more than two earned runs in eight of 12 starts this season.
* After 6.0 no-hit innings last Wednesday, LHP Cory VanAllen has yet to allow a hit in 12.0 innings as a starter at Baylor Ballpark.
* Baylor pitchers have allowed just 11 runs in the last 53.0 innings (spanning six games). In that time, Baylor pitchers have tossed 46 scoreless innings.
* Baylor starting pitchers have a 1.32 over the last six games.
* Baylor's .321 batting average in Big 12 games is 22 points higher than second-place Oklahoma State (.299) and 28 points higher than third-place Texas Tech (.293).
* 19 of Baylor's 23 losses this season have come to teams ranked nationally at some point this season.
* Baylor is 20-6 this season when scoring five or more runs and 21-6 when out-hitting the opposition. The Bears are 18-2 when doing both.
* Through 19 Big 12 Conference games, Baylor is one game ahead of last year's pace when the Bears were 9-10.
* The Bears have recorded at least one extra-base hit in 30 consecutive games.
* After hitting just three home runs in their first 17 games, the Bears have knocked 32 homers in their last 28 games. Since hitting their first home run March 2, the Bears have not gone more than three games without a round-tripper.
* Having committed 62 errors with 64 unearned runs allowed, Baylor has a averted run index of 1.032. Baylor's opponents have committed 61 errors, but the Bears have scored only 38 unearned runs (0.623 ARI). However, Baylor's ARI over the past eight games is 0.375.
* The Bears have five shutouts this season, the most by a Baylor staff since the 2001 corps also registered five blankings.
* The Bears have played 12 errorless games in 42 contests this season. Ironically, the 2004 Bears are 4-8 this season when not committing an error.
* Baylor relief pitchers have held opponents to a .234 batting average this season with 141 strikeouts in 147.0 innings.
* Opponents are 7-for-77 (.092) in first at bats against Baylor relievers with six double plays and 24 strikeouts.
* Since the start of the Big 12 in 1997, the Bears have the league's best conference record at 134-80 (.626). Baylor leads all conference schools in both first-team all-Big 12 selections (21) and first-team Academic all-Big 12 selections (35), and the Bears are the only Big 12 Conference program to have ranked in the top 10 nationally during each of the past six seasons (1998-2003).
