TCU Takes Rubber Match; Tops Baylor 8-5

Sunday, April 23

Fort Worth, Texas

1:00 PM

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TCU Takes Rubber Match; Tops Baylor 8-5

4/23/2017 12:00:00 AM | Baseball

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April 23, 2017

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FORT WORTH -- No. 6 TCU led wire-to-wire in wrapping up the series victory over Baylor with an 8-5 win on Sunday at Lupton Stadium. Evan Skoug, Cam Warner and Austen Wade homered for the Horned Frogs.

The Rundown
Wade led off the first with a base hit and moved to third on a Luken Baker base hit. Josh Watson put the Frogs on top 1-0 with a two-out single.

Back-to-back home runs from Warner and Skoug to open the third pushed TCU's lead to three, but Baylor closed the gap to one, 3-2, with a pair of two-out runs in the fourth.

Twice Baylor had the tying run in scoring position, once in the sixth and once in the seventh. A ground out in the sixth stranded the runner at second. In the seventh, a foul out and a fly ball left the tying run on third.

Wade gave the Frogs some breathing room in the seventh with a one-out home run. A four-spot in the eighth broke the game open. Ryan Merrill worked a bases-loaded walk. Elliott Barzilli followed with a two-run double and Wade collected his second RBI of the game with a sacrifice fly to make it 8-2.

Baylor tried to get back in the game in the ninth, scoring a trio of runs to make it an 8-5 game. With the tying run at the plate, Dalton Brown came on and got a strikeout to pick up his first career save.

Brian Howard (6-2) picked up the win after allowing two runs (one earned) on four hits in 5 2/3 innings. He fanned six and walked just one. Sean Wymer contributed 2 1/3 scoreless in relief.

Stat of the Game
30 -- TCU reached the 30-win plateau for the 13th time in 14 years under the guidance of head coach Jim Schlossnagle.

Notes: • TCU has hit a home run in 22 games this season.
• TCU hit multiple home runs in a game for the 10th time this season.
• TCU has scored multiple runs in an inning 62 times this season.
• TCU notched double-digit hits for the 16th time this season.
• Austen Wade has reached base safely in 25 straight games.
•Wade collected his 11th multi-hit game of the year and the 30th of his carer.
• Wade posted his ninth multi-RBI game of the season and the 16th of his career.
• Wade hit his fourth home run of the year and the fifth of his career.
• Cam Warner collected his 13th multi-hit game of the season and the 36th of his career.
• Warner hit his fourth home run of the season and the 10th of his career.
• Evan Skoug has reached base safely in 22 straight games.
• Skoug hit his ninth home run of the season and the 25th of his career.
• Luken Baker stretched on-base streak to 20.
• Nolan Brown has reached base safely in 17 straight games.
• Brown tallied his 15th multi-hit game of the year and the 33rd of his career.
• Michael Landestoy posted his first multi-hit game of the season and the sixth of his career.
• Elliott Barzilli collected his fourth multi-RBI game of the season and the 27th of his career.
• Dalton Brown notched his first career save.

Next Up:
With the win, TCU improves to 30-8 overall and 11-4 in Big 12 play. The Horned Frogs will wrap up the homestand Tuesday night when they play host to Stephen F. Austin. First pitch is set for 6:30 p.m.