TCU Closes Out Home Schedule
5/11/2015 12:00:00 AM | Baseball
FORT WORTH -The TCU baseball will close out the home portion of its regular season schedule Tuesday night when they host Abilene Christian. A special presentation honoring the eight seniors will start at 5:50 p.m.
TCU NOTABLES
• Since dropping a 2-1 series at Kansas State, the Horned Frogs have swept their last four series.
• With the two-game sweep of Kansas, TCU has now won eight straight Big 12 games.
• TCU took two game lead atop the Big 12 standings and needs just one victory at Oklahoma this weekend to claim the Big 12 regular season championship.
• The Frogs played their fourth extra-inning game of the season on Saturday and walked off with a 2-1 victory in the 10th inning to improve to 2-2 in bonus baseball.
• TCU allowed just one earned run over the weekend and lowered its ERA to 2.14, reclaiming the top spot in the nation.
• The Horned Frogs still pace the league in hitting (.290) and defense (.978).
• Preston Morrison made his final regular season home start on Friday and tallied his 36th career victory. His 11 wins this season are tied for tops in the country.
• Connor Wanhanen (.373) and Cody Jones (.359) rank first and third, respectively, in the Big 12 in hitting.
ABILENE CHRISTIAN NOTABLES
• Abilene Christian is coming off being swept against Northwestern State over the weekend.
• The sweep came on the heels of a three-game sweep at New Orleans. The Wildcats are 4-2 in their last six road games.
• Abilene Christian has more wins (8) on the road than they have at home (8).
• Tyler Eager is the Wildcats leading offensive threat with a team-best .293 average, 29 RBIs and nine stolen bases.
• Russell Crippen is the power threat in the lineup with five doubles, two triples and three home runs.
• On the mound, the staff has a team ERA of 4.67 and is allowing opponents to hit .283.
• Ladgie Zotyka and Nick Palacios are the go-to guys in the bullpen with 22 appearances each.
• Kevin Sheets has three saves and a team-low 2.08 ERA in 18 appearances.
• Defensively, the Wildcats have a .961 fielding percentage. They have yielded 69 stolen bases in 83 attempts.
SERIES NOTABLES
• TCU and Abilene Christian will be meeting on the diamond for the 19th time on Tuesday night.
• The contest marks the second game against the Wildcats this season.
• TCU is a perfect 18-0 against Abilene Christian.
• This season marks the first time the teams have met since the 1995 campaign.
• The Horned Frogs picked up a 4-3 come-from-behind victory over Abilene Christian in Abilene on April 6.
HOME NOTABLES
• The Horned Frogs will play 29 home games in 2015.
• TCU holds an all-time mark of 298-102 at Lupton.
• TCU has won 14 straight home games.
• TCU owns a 131-36 all-time record in conference games at Lupton Stadium.
• TCU is 53-10 at home over the last two seasons.
• TCU has won 20 or more games at Lupton in 11 of 12 seasons.
• TCU ranks
12th nationally in attendance with an average of 3,694 fans per game.
THANK YOU SENIORS!
• Tuesday we will honor eight special members of the Horned Frog family who are all playing their final regular season home game.
• Trey Teakell has been at TCU for five seasons, redshirting in 2011 before becoming an integral part of the pitching staff in 2012.
• Preston Morrison, Keaton Jones, Derek Odell and Travis Evans made immediate impacts as freshmen in 2012, helping lead TCU to its first-ever road NCAA Regional championship and an NCAA Super Regional.
• The quintet helped usher in the Big 12 era after spending their freshmen campaign as members of the Mountain West.
• Cody Jones stepped onto campus for the 2013 season. He has started every game over the course of his three seasons.
• Garrett Crain and Jeremie Fagnan transferred in as juniors in the fall of 2013 and played huge rolls in helping guide TCU to a berth in the 2014 College World Series.
• Over the last four years, the seniors have seen TCU make history.
• As freshmen, TCU won the 2012 Mountain West Conference regular season championship and the 2012 NCAA College Station Regional while appearing in the NCAA Los Angeles Super Regional.
• In 2013, the group helped usher TCU into the Big 12 Conference where they qualified for the Big 12 Tournament.
• In 2014, the Frogs made history as TCU earned its first-ever national seed.
• The Horned Frogs claimed the 2014 Big 12 Tournament title, the 2014 NCAA Fort Worth Regional title, hosted an NCAA Super Regional, earned their second-ever berth to the College World Series on its home field and finished ranked fifth nationally.
• This season, TCU has been ranked in the top eight all season long and spent six weeks ranked No. 1 in at least one poll.
• In Trey's five seasons on campus, TCU has amassed 179 wins.
• The quartet of Preston, Keaton, Derek and Travis have guided TCU to 156 wins.
• Cody has been an integral part of 116 wins in his three years.
• Jeremie and Garrett have witnessed 87 wins over the last two seasons.
