TCU Sweeps Santa Clara; Wins Seventh Straight

Saturday, May 21

Fort Worth, Texas

Noon

TCU

Santa Clara

TCU Sweeps Santa Clara; Wins Seventh Straight

5/21/2022 4:31:00 PM | Baseball

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Sacco homers twice in the win

FORT WORTH – No. 15 TCU wrapped up the regular season with a sweep of Santa Clara after posting a 9-1 eight inning win over the Broncos Saturday afternoon at Lupton Stadium. The victory runs TCU's winning streak to seven games. Tommy Sacco homered twice and drove in three to lead the Horned Frogs.

The Rundown
Tommy Sacco got the scoring started with a one out opposite field home run in the first. Four walks in the third doubled TCU's lead as Luke Boyers drew the RBI-walk to make it a 2-0 game.

A two out home run in the fourth for Santa Clara cut the lead in half, but the Horned Frogs answered in the bottom of the inning to restore its two run lead, 3-1. Porter Brown and Elijah Nunez executed a one out double steal to tally the run.

Back-to-back two out hits from Brayden Taylor and Kurtis Byrne pushed the TCU advantage to 5-1 after six.

The Frogs put the game away in the seventh with four two out runs. Gray Rodgers started the rally with a double and scored on a Brown base hit. After a stolen base, Nunez singled home Brown for a 7-1 lead. Sacco book-ended his afternoon with a two run shot to right, accounting for the final score.

Riley Cornelio (4-4) twirled six innings, allowing a run on four hits. He walked two and struck out nine in the win. Caleb Bolden, Augie Mihlbauer and Garrett Wright recorded the final six outs in the game.

Stat of the Game:
7 – TCU scored seven of its nine runs with two outs.

Notes:
• TCU homered in a game for the 30^th time this season.
• TCU has hit multiple homers in a game 16 times this season.
• TCU scored a first-inning run for the 25^th time this year.
• TCU played errorless baseball for the 27^th time this year.
• TCU registered double-digit hits (11) for the 21^st time this year.
• TCU stole multiple bases (3) for the 23^rd time this year.
• TCU outhit its opponent for the 27^th time this season.
• The TCU pitching staff registered double-digit strikeouts (11) for the 21^st time this year.
• Elijah Nunez has reached safely in 11 straight games.
• Tommy Sacco has hit safely in 12 straight games and reached safely in 15 straight.
• Sacco turned in his third multiple home run game of the season.
• Sacco now has 12 home runs this season and 14 in his career.
• Sacco posted his 24^th multi-hit game of the season and the 37^th of his career.
• Sacco posted his 12^th multi-RBI game of the year and the 22^nd of his career.
• Brayden Taylor and Gray Rodgers have reached safely in eight straight.
• Kurtis Byrne notched his 15^th multi-hit game of the season and the 16^th of his career.
• Luke Boyers stretched his reached base streak to 23.
• Porter Brown collected his sixth multi-hit game of the season and thee26^th of his career.

Next Up:
With the win, TCU concludes the regular season with a 35-18 record. The Horned Frogs return to play in the Phillip 66 Big 12 Championships slated to begin Wednesday at Globe Life Field in Arlington. TCU will be either the No. 1 or No. 2 seed with game time possibilities of playing at 12:30 p.m. or 4 p.m. The Frogs will take on either Baylor or Kansas State.