No. 17 Baseball Falls 2-1 at UTA in 13 Innings

Tuesday, April 9

Arlington, Texas

6:30 P.M.

Baylor

22-9

UT Arlington

21-13

Baylor

UT Arlington

No. 17 Baseball Falls 2-1 at UTA in 13 Innings

4/9/2019 11:17:00 PM | Baseball

Box Score UTA 2, Baylor 1

THE RUNDOWN
ARLINGTON, Texas – Despite outhitting UT Arlington and getting 12 innings of one-run baseball, the No. 17 Bears were unable to get the big hit to break open the game and fell 2-1 in 13 innings at Clay Gould Ballpark on Tuesday evening.

The Bears tallied 12 hits on the day and were led by two-hit performances from Shea Langeliers, Davion Downey, Josh Bissonette and Chase Wehsener, but overall the Baylor (22-9) offense was unable to get the big hit to break open the game down the stretch as they stranded a season-high 18 batters on the day.

The Bears struck first on the day, as Downey led off the second inning with a solo homer, his fourth of the year to give the Bears a 1-0 lead and their only run of the day.

Overall, Baylor's pitching staff was outstanding, as seven pitchers combined to hold the Mavericks (21-13) to just two runs on 10 hits. Jacob Ashkinos earned his second-straight Tuesday start and held the Mavericks hitless through 3.0 innings of work. Daniel Caruso gave up the game-tying run in the fourth inning, but the rest of the pen picked him up, tossing eight scoreless innings to follow.

Tyler Thomas threw 2.0 scoreless with two strikeouts and no walks, followed by 1.1 innings of two-hit baseball from Ryan Leckich. Luke Boyd, who entered in the bottom of the eighth with one out and runners on first and second got a strikeout and a ground out to end the inning. Boyd was impressive, striking out the side in the ninth and all in all tossing 2.2 innings of no-hit baseball before giving way to closer Kyle Hill who tossed a scoreless 11^thand 12^th.

The Bears continued to have opportunities to plate the go-ahead run down the stretch, but none bigger than the ninth and 10^thinnings where the Bears had bases loaded but just could not get the big hit.

In the 11^ththe Bears stranded two in scoring position, but in the 13^ththe Bears looked like they were breaking through. Cole Haring laced a triple off the wall in left and the Bears had the go-ahead run 90 feet away with nobody out. However, a strikeout and a 6-4-3 double play ball ended the threat.

In the bottom of the 13^thinning freshman reliever Brooks Helmer entered and the Mavericks had back-to-back hits in a double and a single. Back-to-back walks then brought home the game-winning run.

Helmer took the loss, his first of the year to fall to 1-1, while Riley Bost improved to 1-2 on the year.

NOTES
*The 13-innning contest was the longest of the Coach Rodriguez era.

*The Bears have won nine of their last 12 games.

*The Bears stranded a season-high 18 batters on the day.

*Since inserting Nick Loftin in the leadoff spot on March 10, the Bears have scored 124 runs on 204 hits in their last 18 games. Loftin is 29-for-78 with 5 HR, 18 RBI and 20 runs scored during the stretch. The Bears are 13-5 in such games.

*Davion Downey with his fourth home run of the year, first since Feb. 26 vs. DBU.

*Richard Cunningham extends his on-base streak to nine three games, hit streak to three games.

*Nick Loftin extended his season-long on-base streak to 18 games.

*Davis Wendzel extended his on-base streak to 12 games.

*Chase Wehsener extended his hitting streak to nine games.

*Ryan Leckich made a team-high 17^thappearance.


*Kyle Hill made his 16^th relief appearance of the season and 75^th relief appearance of his career, putting him in sole possession of sixth on Baylor's career relief appearances leaderboard.

*Luke Boyd tallied a career-best five strikeouts.

STAT OF THE DAY
18 – Thee Bears stranded 18 base runners on the day, a season-high and the story of the game as the Bears just couldn't break through.

QUOTE OF THE DAY
On tonight's game…
"I was really happy with how our staff pitched tonight. It was a tough night in that our offense battled, but we just couldn't get that big two-out hit."
- Baylor head coach Steve Rodriguez

WHAT'S NEXT
Baylor heads back to Baylor Ballpark to host Oklahoma in a three-game series starting on Friday, April 12 at 6:35 p.m. CT.

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