Final Stats

THE RUNDOWN
LUBBOCK, Texas - Baylor (13-20, 4-5) dropped its series opener to No. 23 Texas Tech (20-14, 5-5) Friday night at Rip Griffin Park. The Bears found themselves down early and struggled to capitalize on scoring chances against TTU starter Ryan Moseley.

The Red Raiders jumped out to a quick 3-0 lead by scoring a pair in the first inning on three hits and one more in the second on a bases-loaded walk. BU had a chance to counter in the third with Steven McLean and Logan Brown leading off with back-to-back singles. However, after Adam Toth's grounder moved both runners into scoring position, Jonathan Ducoff and Kameron Esthay struck out to end the threat.

After scoring a run on two walks and a single in the fifth, the Bears finally got to Moseley in the sixth. Esthay started effort with a one-out single and Matt Menard followed with a walk. An out later, Hayden Ross walked to load the bases. West Tunnell then also drew a walk to force in a run, but McLean grounded to short to leave the bases loaded with just one run scored.

A 4-1 deficit then turned into an 8-1 deficit for BU in the seventh as the Red Raiders scored four runs on six hits and an error.

Baylor answered with a three-run rally in the eighth but couldn't put up any more runs to pull off the comeback. Esthay started the inning with a leadoff double and Menard singled behind him. After an Aaron Dodson RBI single, Ross walked to load the bases with no outs. However, Tunnell and Cameron Miller struck out before Brown was able to rope a two-run single. Toth then went down looking to end the rally.

Moseley (3-3) picked up the win as he allowed one run on four hits and four walks with eight strikeouts in six innings. BU starter Daniel Castano (2-4) was handed the loss, giving up seven runs on 10 hits and four walks with two strikeouts in 6.1 frames.

NOTES
*Baylor trails the all-time series against Texas Tech 79-77, 48-24 in Lubbock and 38-30 under Steve Smith. Each team has won nine Big 12 series against each other but TTU leads 6-2 in series played in Lubbock. BU took two of three from TTU last year in Waco on March 14-16, 2014.

*Baylor is 30-35 against ranked teams since 2011 and 3-8 this season.

*Baylor is 492-555-4 against current members of the Big 12 Conference and 272-215 all-time in regular season play.

*Baylor is 2-9 this season in road games and 2-12 away from Baylor Ballpark.

*Baylor has won four of its seven three-game series this season and 21 of 40 since 2012.

*Baylor 226-157 in April under Smith and 1-4 this year.

*Logan Brown has a six-game hitting streak as he had his team-high 12th multi-hit effort, third three-hit game and fourth multi-RBI contest of the season.

*West Tunnell has reached base in three straight games.

*Kameron Esthay had his sixth multi-hit game of the season.

*Steven McLean had his fifth multi-hit game of the season.

STAT OF THE GAME
11 - The amount of runners Baylor left on base.

QUOTE OF THE GAME
"We're young. Sometimes they'll show you glimpses of why they're out there and then you'll see something that maybe you've never seen before. There's just some stuff that's happened to this club that almost defies logic. Most of it is age and immaturity in terms of baseball." - Baylor head coach Steve Smith

WHAT'S NEXT
The teams finish the series with games tomorrow and Sunday at 2 p.m. CT on FOX Sports Southwest Plus. Saturday's pitching matchup features BU RHP Drew Tolson (1-6, 4.27 ERA) vs. TTU LHP Cameron Smith (4-2, 2.74 ERA) while Sunday will have BU RHP Nick Lewis (1-0, 4.67 ERA) vs. TTU's pitcher that has yet to be announced.