April 7, 2015 Final Stats
THE RUNDOWN
WACO, Texas - Baylor (13-19) got back in the win column with a 10-7 victory over UT Arlington (14-17) Tuesday evening at Baylor Ballpark. The Bears scored six combined runs in the fifth and sixth innings to fuel to win.
Trailing 3-0 after the top of the second inning, Steven McLean roped a two-out, two-run single for Baylor to cut into the lead in the bottom of the second. The Bears then tied the game in the third after Adam Toth reached on an error and scored on a wild pitch.
However, the Mavericks answered right back to regain the lead on an RBI single by Matt McLean in the fourth.
The Bears bounced back with a big fifth inning, though. Logan Brown singled with one out and Toth followed with an RBI double. After a Duncan Wendel single, Kameron Esthay hit a three-run homer to right field off reliever Zach Hobbs to put Baylor ahead for good.
In the sixth, BU added to the lead with an RBI single from Brown and sacrifice fly from Wendel.
The insurance runs were enough to withstand UTA's one run in the seventh and two in the eighth as Sean Spicer gave up one hit with two strikeouts in the last two innings to earn his fourth save.
BU reliever Kody Hessemer (2-1) earned the win, tossing three innings while allowing one run on four hits with two strikeouts. Hobbs (1-2) took the loss after giving up five runs on five hits with three strikeouts in 2.1 innings.
NOTES
*Baylor leads the all-time series against UT Arlington 85-31 overall, 52-12 in Waco and 39-11 under Steve Smith - BU has won seven of the last eight games in the series.
*Baylor is 148-61 against current members of the Sun Belt Conference and 2-3 this year after topping UT Arlington on the road March 24th and being swept by Texas State last weekend.
*Baylor 226-156 in April under Smith and 1-3 this year.
*Baylor is 377-162 all-time at Baylor Ballpark, 11-8 this season and has won 16 of its 22 home series since 2012, including four of five thus far in 2015 (No. 13 Cal Poly, 3-0 | Kent State, 2-1 | West Virginia, 2-1 | Oklahoma, 2-1 | Texas State, 0-3).
*Sean Spicer pitched two scoreless frames to extend his career-high save total to four.
*Duncan Wendel had a career-high three hits for his eighth multi-hit game of the season.
*Redshirt freshman Kameron Esthay hit his second career homer and tied a career high with three RBI.
*West Tunnell tied career highs with three hits (season high), two doubles and one triple, and set a career high with three runs scored - it was his fourth multi-hit game of the season.
*Redshirt freshman Steven McLean set a career high with three RBI and tied a career high with two hits for his fourth multi-hit game.
*Logan Brown has a hit in his last five games as he had his team-high 11th multi-hit effort.
*Freshman Troy Montemayor made his first career start in his 13th appearance - he allowed three runs on five hits and one walk in two innings.
*Adam Toth made his first appearance since March 8th vs. Texas A&M since dealing with an injury, and went 1-for-2 with two runs, one double, one RBI and one walk.
*Cameron Miller made his first appearance since March 18th vs. Sam Houston State since dealing with an injury, and went 0-for-1 with a run and walk.
STAT OF THE GAME
3 - The amount of extra base hits by West Tunnell as he had two doubles and a triple.
TWEET OF THE GAME
QUOTE OF THE GAME
"We had a good day at work yesterday offensively. I don't say that often but yesterday was a different day. I haven't seen this group of guys have a practice like that. Usually you don't see it during the season. I mean, practice in baseball is not something you look forward to but yesterday was different. I thought there was definitely some carryover today offensively." - Baylor head coach Steve Smith
WHAT'S NEXT
Baylor heads to Lubbock, Texas, this weekend for a three-game series against Texas Tech. Games are slated for 6:30 p.m. CT Friday, 2 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday - all three games will air on FOX Sports Southwest Plus.
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