Shepherd; TCU Walk-Off Kansas

Friday, May 10

Lupton Stadium

6:30 p.m.

TCU

Kansas

Shepherd; TCU Walk-Off Kansas

5/10/2019 11:02:00 PM | Baseball

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Shepherd homers in the ninth

FORT WORTH – On the first pitch he saw in the ninth, Conner Shepherd delivered a walk-off home run to give TCU a thrilling 4-3 walk-off victory over Kansas at Lupton Stadium on Friday night. Nick Lodolo fanned 11 in the start for the Horned Frogs.

The Rundown
The ninth inning heroics of Conner Shepherd capped an overall thrilling frame. In the top of the inning, Kansas lead-off hitter doubled. Dalton Brown was able to get a pop up on the infield and a strikeout to keep the runner at second. Haylen Green (4-1) entered the game and on three pitches fanned Brett Vosik to keep the game tied.

TCU opened the scoring in the second on a two-out solo home run from Andrew Keefer.

Two more runs crossed the plate for the Frogs in the fourth as the lead grew to 3-0. Johnny Rizer doubled to open the inning and scored on Shepherd base hit. With a runner on third and one out, Adam Oviedo grounded out to drive in the run.

Kansas got back into the game in the fifth as it pulled within one, 3-2. A walk and a hit batter scored on a two-out triple from James Cosentino.

The Jayhawks tied the game in the seventh without the benefit of a hit. A walk, error and hit by pitch had the bases loaded with nobody out. Augie Mihlbauer came on and did yeoman's work allowing just one run to score. His second strikeout of the inning left the bases loaded.

TCU starter Nick Lodolo was strong over six innings of work. He allowed just two runs on two hits, walked three and struck out 11 in the no-decision.

Stat of the Game:
2010 – TCU's last walk-off home run came on April 24, 2010 when Matt Curry hit a two-run walk-off home run against UNLV.

Notes:
• TCU homered in a game for the 25th time this season.
• TCU hit multiple home runs in a contest for the 15^thtime this season.
• TCU has homered in five straight games.
• The TCU pitching staff recorded double-digit strikeouts for the 18^thtime this season.
• The 16 strikeouts tonight match a season-high set against Eastern Michigan on March 15.
• Nick Lodolo fanned 11 giving him a career-high 100 strikeouts on the season.
• Lodolo collected his fourth double-digit strikeout game of the season and the seventh time in his career.
• Jake Guenther has reached base safely in all 47 games.
• Austin Henry has reached safely in 19 straight games.
• Conner Shepherd collected his 11^thmulti-hit game of the year and the 20th of his career.
• Shepherd notched his fourth multi-RBI game of the season and the ninth of his career.
• Shepherd hit his fifth home run of the season and the 12^thof his career.
• Andrew Keefer hit his third home run of the season.
• Johnny Rizer extended his hitting streak to seven games.

Next Up:
With the victory, TCU improves to 27-20 overall and 9-10 in Big 12 play. The Horned Frogs and the Jayhawks will square off in Game 2 of the series on Saturday afternoon at 2. The game will be televised on FSSW.