TCU Wraps Up Perfect Homestand; Tops Arizona

Wednesday, February 28

Fort Worth, Texas

6 p.m.

TCU

9-0

Arizona

4-4

Arizona

TCU

TCU Wraps Up Perfect Homestand; Tops Arizona

2/28/2024 10:15:00 PM | Baseball

Box Score Box Score (PDF)

Frog pitchers tally 19 strikeouts

FORT WORTH – No. 5 TCU received a dominating performance on the mound from Braeden Sloan, setting the tone for a 6-1 win over Arizona Wednesday night at Lupton Stadium. Five Horned Frogs pitchers combined to tally 19 strikeouts in the game. Sloan accounted for 13 of the strikeouts.

The Rundown
Braeden Sloan (3-0) was masterful in his first start of the season. The sophomore twirled six innings of shutout baseball, allowing just three hits and striking out a career-high 13. He fanned multiple batters in each of the first four frames, including striking out the side in the first, third and fourth innings.

Offensively, TCU scored single runs in each of the first three innings to build an early lead. Peyton Chatagnier and Anthony Silva doubled in the first to put the Frogs in front 1-0. A Ryder Robinson sacrifice fly scored Chase Brunson, who had led off the second with a double. In the third, Kurtis Byrne grounded out to make it a 3-0 ballgame.

Back-to-back singles from Byrne and Karson Bowen to open the sixth turned into two big insurance runs. With the bases loaded and two outs, Sam Myers doubled to right to make it a 5-0 game.

An Arizona run in the eighth was answered by the Frogs in the bottom of the frame. Four walks in the inning gifted TCU its sixth run of the contest and accounted for the final score.

Andrew Mosiello struck out three around a hit batter in the seventh. Chase Hoover and Hunter Hodges combined to pitch the eighth. Ben Abeldt fanned two of four batters he faced to close out the game.

Stat of the Game:
13 - Braeden Sloan struck out a career-high 13 batters. It's the most strikeouts by a pitcher since Austin Krob stuck out 13 against McNeese in the NCAA Fort Worth Regional on June 4, 2021.

Notes:

TCU's 9-0 start to the season is its best start to a season since the 1994 campaign.
It's the third time in program history the Horned Frogs have opened the season 9-0 (1985 and 1994).
TCU has won 16 straight home games dating back to the 2023 season.
TCU played flawless defense for the fifth time this season.
TCU registered double-digit strikeouts (19) for the fifth time this season.
The 19 strikeouts are the most since TCU fanned 19 against Texas Tech on May 16, 2019.
For the fifth time this season, TCU walked (6) more than it struck out (4).
All nine batters in the lineup collected a hit tonight.
Peyton Chatagnier and Kurtis Byrne have reached safely in all nine games this season.
Logan Maxwell extended his hitting streak to 10 games dating back to last season.
Byrne stretched his hitting streak to five games.
Luke Boyers has reached safely in eight straight contests.
Sam Myers registered his second career multi-RBI game.

Next Up:
With the win, TCU improves to 9-0 on the season. TCU will leave home for the first time this season when it heads to Arlington for the Kubota College Classic at Globe Life Field. The Horned Frogs will take on USC in the opening game on Friday at 2 p.m. The entire Classic will be streamed on FloSports.TV.