TCU Earns Hard-Fought Win At WVU

Saturday, May 1

Morgantown, WV

1 PM

TCU

32-10, 14-3

West Virginia

15-20, 6-11

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Runs R	Hits H	Errors E
TCU	0	0	0	1	2	1	0	1	0	5	7	0
West Virginia	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	0	3	10	1

TCU Earns Hard-Fought Win At WVU

5/1/2021 5:19:00 PM | Baseball

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Ridings tallies first career save

MORGANTOWN, W. Va. – No. 5 TCU scratched and clawed its way to a 5-3 victory over West Virginia Saturday afternoon in Morgantown. The Horned Frogs took advantage of 11 walks and a pair of Mountaineer miscues to score their runs.

The Rundown
TCU opened the scoring in the fourth. With the bases loaded and two outs, Luke Boyers worked a walk to drive in Hunter Wolfe for a 1-0 lead.

Two more runs crossed the plate in the fifth as the lead grew to 3-0. Elijah Nunez and Zach Humphreys led off the inning with base hits. After a walk to Brayden Taylor loaded the bases, Wolfe worked a walk to drive in the inning's first run. Phillip Sikes reached on a fielder's choice to drive in Humphreys.

West Virginia took advantage of a lead-off walk to score its first run of the game in the sixth.

The teams traded runs in the seventh. Nunez scored on an errant through to center by the catcher and a two out single from Paul McIntosh made it a 4-2 ballgame.

Humphreys scored TCU's final run of the game on a bases-loaded passed ball in the eighth.

A lead-off home run in the eighth was the final tally for West Virginia. With the tying runs on base, River Ridings got a strikeout to end the eighth. He set the side down in order in the ninth to notch his first career save.

Austin Krob (6-0) allowed a run on six hits in 5 2/3 innings. He walked three and struck out three.

Stat of the Game:
50 – Phillip Sikes drove in his 50^th run of the season. He is the first Horned Frog since A.J. Balta in 2018 to drive in 50 runs in a season. Balta finished the 2018 campaign with 59.

Notes:
• TCU has stolen multiple bases in 21 games this year.
• TCU played errorless baseball for the 22nd time this season.
• TCU drew double-digit walks for the eighth time this season.
• TCU was outhit for just the 13^th time this season.
• TCU improved to 25-3 when scoring first.
• Brayden Taylor has reached base safely in 21 straight.
• Taylor stretched his hitting streak to 12 games.
• Zach Humphreys has reached safely in 14 straight.
• Humphreys stretched his hitting streak to seven games.
• Humphreys collected his 14^th multi-hit game of the year and the 42^nd of his career.
• Gray Rodgers has reached safely in 14 straight games.
• Phillip Sikes has reached safely in 31 straight contests.

Next Up:
With the victory, the Horned Frogs improve to 32-10 on the season and 14-3 in Big 12 play. TCU will go for the series sweep on Sunday. Johnny Ray will take the mound for the Horned Frogs. First pitch on Big 12 Now on ESPN+ is set for Noon (CT).