Baylor
13-9
Prairie View A&M
5-15
Baseball Overpowers Prairie View A&M, 17-5
3/26/2018 12:00:00 AM | Baseball
THE RUNDOWN
WACO, Texas ÃÆ'Æ'à € 'ÃÆ'â ‚¬ ' ¢ÃƒÆ'Æ'à € ' ¢' ¬" Baylor baseball notched a 17-5 win over Prairie View A&M on Monday night at Baylor Ballpark. The Bears (13-9) used a five-run first and nine-run fourth to take down the Panthers (5-15).
PVAMU opened the game with two runs in the first, but the Bears scored five in the bottom half and took it from there. The five runs came on a hit batter (Richard Cunningham), six walks (RBI walks by Cole Haring, Davion Downey, Josh Bissonette and Tucker Cascadden) and one single (RBI by Nick Loftin).
The Bears added a run on a Haring sacrifice fly in the second and two in the third on a Langeliers double and wild pitch.
After the Panthers got a run back in the fourth, Baylor put the game away in the bottom half with nine runs on eight hits and one walk. Cascadden and Cunningham had RBI doubles to begin the rally, and Langeliers hit a two-run home run. Then with two outs, Downey had a two-run double and Bissonette blasted a three-run homer.
The Panthers scratched another run in the sixth but it was the last run either side scored in the game.
BU starter Alex Phillips (2-0) earned the win, giving up three runs on seven hits and one walk with four strikeouts in three innings. PVAMU starter Caleb Rozypal (0-5) took the loss, allowing five runs on five walks in 0.2 frames.
NOTES
*Baylor has won 10 of its last 14 games.
*Baylor has scored a season-high 17 runs twice in its last three games.
*Baylor has hit a home run in six straight games (nine total homers). BU had a streak of six straight games last season from May 13-19, 2017 (15 total homers).
*Baylor is 20-9 in midweek games under third-year head coach Steve Rodriguez with a 13-8 home mark and 7-1 road record. BU is 3-1 in 2018 (1-1 at home, 2-0 on road).
*Baylor has hit 102 home runs in 132 games under Rodriguez. BU hit 51 in 2017 for its most homers since 2010 (57). BU has 17 in 2018.
*Baylor 28 multi-home run games under Rodriguez (nine 2016, 14 in 2017, five in 2018).
*Baylor has finished its home schedule with a .500 record or better (9-5 in 2018) in all 19 seasons at Baylor Ballpark (since 1999) and is 425-198 all-time at the park.
*Davis Wendzel has reached base in 11 straight games and had a career-high three walks.
*Andy Thomas has a seven-game on-base streak and three-game hitting streak as he posted a career-high four walks. His four walks were the most for BU since Beamer Weems did the same vs. Texas A&M Corpus Christi on March 26, 2008.
*Josh Bissonette has reached base in seven straight games and has a three-game hitting streak. He registered his fifth multi-hit game (3) and third multi-RBI game (career-high four) while hitting his career-high fourth homer of the season and seventh of his career.
*Freshman Nick Loftin has a five-game hitting streak as he posted his fifth multi-hit game of the season (2).
*Shea Langeliers has a four-game on-base streak as he tallied his sixth multi-hit game (3) and team-high eighth multi-RBI game (3) of the season. He tied a career high with two doubles while hitting his fifth homer of the season and 15th of his career.
*Cole Haring has a three-game hitting streak and had his second multi-RBI game of the season (2).
*Richard Cunningham has a three-game hitting streak. He totaled his sixth multi-hit game with a career-high-tying three hits.
*Davion Downey had a career-high three RBI for his third multi-RBI game of the season.
*Tucker Cascadden had his second multi-RBI game of the season (2).
*Alex Phillips tied a career high with four strikeouts.
STAT OF THE GAME
12 ÃÆ'Æ'à € 'ÃÆ'â ‚¬ ' ¢ÃƒÆ'Æ'à € ' ¢' ¬" The amount of walks Baylor's offense had.
QUOTE OF THE GAME
"From a coach's standpoint, it's kind of hard to do some offensive things [when the opposing team's pitchers are not hitting the strike zone], just in regards to organizing and structuring our game, getting some skills stuff in and making sure we continue to respect the game and play it the way it is supposed to be played. From an offensive standpoint, the big thing is it forces you to focus on smaller things, like making sure mechanically you are doing things right and making sure you are focusing on balls in the zone, making sure you are attacking balls you should attack in offensive counts, and stuff like that. I think, regardless, there is always something to get out of a game like this, and at the same time there is always stuff to work on." ÃÆ'Æ'à € 'ÃÆ'â ‚¬ ' ¢ÃƒÆ'Æ'à € ' ¢' ¬" Baylor Head Coach Steve Rodriguez
WHAT'S NEXT
The Bears head to Norman, Oklahoma, for their first Big 12 road series vs. Oklahoma with games at 6:30 p.m. CT Thursday, 6:30 p.m. Friday and 4 p.m. Saturday. For tickets to home games, visit: http://www.baylorbears.com/tickets/. For updates on the program follow @baylorbaseball on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat.
Team Stats
Pitching:
W: Phillips, Alex (2-0)
L: Caleb Rozypal (0-5)
Batting:
2B: Avery Williams 1
RBI: Kyle Davis 1 ; Daniel Lingua 1 ; Brashad Jones 1 ; Xavier Jefferson 2
Base Running:
RUNS: Jalyn Baker 1 ; Daniel Lingua 2 ; Avery Williams 2
HBP: Ezekiel Bear 1
Batting:
2B: Cunningham, Richard 1 ; Langeliers, Shea 2 ; Downey, Davion 1 ; Cascadden, Tucker 1
HR: Langeliers, Shea 1 ; Bissonette, Josh 1
RBI: Loftin, Nick 1 ; Cunningham, Richard 1 ; Langeliers, Shea 3 ; Haring, Cole 2 ; Downey, Davion 3 ; Bissonette, Josh 4 ; Cascadden, Tucker 2
SF: Haring, Cole 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Loftin, Nick 1 ; Cunningham, Richard 3 ; Langeliers, Shea 2 ; Wendzel, Davis 2 ; Thomas, Andy 2 ; Haring, Cole 2 ; Downey, Davion 2 ; Bissonette, Josh 2 ; Cascadden, Tucker 1
SB: Bissonette, Josh 1
HBP: Cunningham, Richard 1 ; Wendzel, Davis 1 ; Bissonette, Josh 1
