Baylor
12-8, 3-2
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Kansas
14-9, 1-4
Baseball Cruises Past Kansas 17-6 to Even Series
3/24/2018 12:00:00 AM | Baseball
THE RUNDOWN
WACO, Texas ÃÆ'Æ'à € 'ÃÆ'â ‚¬ ' ¢ÃƒÆ'Æ'à € ' ¢' ¬" Baylor baseball pounded Kansas 17-6 to even the series on Saturday afternoon at Baylor Ballpark. The Bears (12-8, 3-2) used a season-high-tying 17 hits to post a season-high 17 runs on the Jayhawks (14-9, 1-4).
The BU offense started the parade in the second with an RBI triple by Levi Gilcrease and RBI double by Tucker Cascadden. Davis Wendzel had an RBI double and Andy Thomas notched an RBI single in the third for a 4-0 lead. In the fourth, a three-run home run by Shea Langeliers blew the game open.
Richard Cunningham added a grand slam in the fifth for a 11-0 lead before Kansas finally scratched four runs across in the sixth. However, BU countered with a run on a wild pitch, Cole Haring single and Cascadden single for three more in the bottom of the sixth.
KU hit a homer in the eighth, but again, the Bears had an answer. Cascadden had a two-run triple and Nick Loftin drove in a run on a groundout for a 17-5 edge. The Jayhawks scored one in the ninth but it wasn't nearly enough.
BU starter Hayden Kettler (3-2) earned the win, giving up four runs on seven hits and three walks with two strikeouts in 5.1 innings. KU starter Taylor Turski (1-4) took the loss, allowing seven runs on nine hits and two walks with one strikeout in four innings.
NOTES
*Baylor has won nine of its last 12 games.
*Baylor has a 3-2 record or better in its first five Big 12 games for the first time since 2014 (4-1).
*Baylor is 5-2 after losses this season.
*Baylor scored a season-high 17 runs on a season-high-tying 17 hits.
*Baylor is 3-1 in three-game series this season (0-1 on road, 3-0 at home) and has a combined record of 8-4.
*Baylor has hit 99 home runs in 130 games under third-year head coach Steve Rodriguez. BU hit 51 in 2017 for its most homers since 2010 (57). BU has 14 in 2018.
*Baylor 27 multi-home run games under Rodriguez (nine 2016, 14 in 2017, four in 2018).
*Baylor has finished its home schedule with a .500 record or better (8-4 in 2018) in all 19 seasons at Baylor Ballpark (since 1999) and is 424-197 all-time at the park.
*Baylor had three triples in a game for the first time since April 14, 2011 at UT Arlington.
*Davis Wendzel has reached base in nine straight games and notched his sevent multi-hit game of the season (3).
*Andy Thomas has a five-game on-base streak as he posted his team-high eighth multi-hit game of the season (2).
*Josh Bissonette has reached base in five straight games.
*Nick Loftin has a three-game hitting streak.
*Shea Langeliers had his fifth multi-hit game (2) and team-high seventh multi-RBI (3) game of the season. He hit his fourth home run of the season and 14th of his career.
*Richard Cunningham had his fifth multi-hit game (2) and second multi-RBI (4) game of the season. He hit his first career grand slam for his first homer of the season and 11th of his career.
*Tucker Cascadden had a career-high three hits and tied a career high with four RBI as he registered his third multi-hit game and first multi-RBI game of the season.
STAT OF THE GAME
2 ÃÆ'Æ'à € 'ÃÆ'â ‚¬ ' ¢ÃƒÆ'Æ'à € ' ¢' ¬" The amount of innings Baylor's offense did not score in, as the Bears scored in six of eight innings.
QUOTE OF THE GAME
"I don't know that we did anything different from yesterday [offensively], since we were able to get some hits and get ahead of them a little bit. I don't know if Hayden [Kettler] had his best for us, but he had good enough stuff for us that was good enough to get deeper into the game with a lot of runs on the board. Offensively, it was really fun to have guys out there maximizing what their pitching staff was giving us. They did a good job of looking for certain pitches, and I was really proud of what they did." ÃÆ'Æ'à € 'ÃÆ'â ‚¬ ' ¢ÃƒÆ'Æ'à € ' ¢' ¬" Baylor Head Coach Steve Rodriguez
WHAT'S NEXT
The Bears finish their weekend series with Kansas at 1:05 p.m. CT Sunday in the rubber match. For tickets to home games, visit: http://www.baylorbears.com/tickets/. For updates on the program follow @baylorbaseball on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat.
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Team Stats
Pitching:
W: Kettler, Hayden (3-2)
L: Taylor Turski (1-4)
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Batting:
2B: Devin Foyle 1 ; Benjamin Sems 1
HR: David Kyriacou 1
RBI: Rudy Karre 1 ; Brett Vosik 1 ; Skyler Messinger 1 ; David Kyriacou 1 ; Benjamin Sems 1
SF: Rudy Karre 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Brendt Citta 2 ; Devin Foyle 1 ; Brett Vosik 1 ; David Kyriacou 1 ; Owen Taylor 1
HBP: Mateo Zunica 1 ; David Kyriacou 1
Batting:
2B: Wendzel, Davis 1 ; Bissonette, Josh 1 ; Cascadden, Tucker 1
3B: Langeliers, Shea 1 ; Gilcrease, Levi 1 ; Cascadden, Tucker 1
HR: Cunningham, Richard 1 ; Langeliers, Shea 1
RBI: Loftin, Nick 1 ; Cunningham, Richard 4 ; Langeliers, Shea 3 ; Wendzel, Davis 1 ; Thomas, Andy 1 ; Haring, Cole 1 ; Gilcrease, Levi 1 ; Cascadden, Tucker 4
Base Running:
RUNS: Loftin, Nick 2 ; Cunningham, Richard 2 ; Langeliers, Shea 2 ; Wendzel, Davis 2 ; Thomas, Andy 1 ; Haring, Cole 1 ; Seay, Hunter 1 ; Bissonette, Josh 2 ; Gilcrease, Levi 2 ; Cascadden, Tucker 2
SB: Thomas, Andy 1
HBP: Cunningham, Richard 1 ; Johnson, Tucker 1
