LUBBOCK, Texas – No. 2 Texas Baseball salvaged the collection with a 12-1 run-rule win over No. 16 Texas Tech on Sunday at Rip Griffin park.
The Longhorns (19-7, 1-2) tagged Purple Raider pitching for 17 hits, together with 4 doubles, one triple and 3 homers. Douglas Hodo III went 3-for-5 with one RBI and one run scored, whilst Skyler Messinger used to be 3-for-3 with one RBI and two runs scored.
Lucas Gordon pitched six innings and allowed only one run on 5 hits. He struck out a career-high seven batters and collected his second-consecutive win.
Already main 5-0, the Longhorns put in combination a seven-run best of the 7th to blow the sport open and entire the run-rule win. The hit parade began with a double by means of Hodo earlier than Ivan Melendez and Murphy Stehly each and every hit a unmarried to power within the first run of the inning.
After a sacrifice bunt by means of Silas Ardoin, Trey Faltine introduced a three-run homer to make the rating 9-1. Texas Tech went to the bullpen and the Longhorns stored hitting. Mitchell Daly hit an RBI double, Eric Kennedy hit an RBI unmarried and Douglas Hodo III capped off the scoring with an RBI triple.
Texas scored the primary run of the sport within the best of the second one after Silas Ardoin began the inning with a double and scored on a Mitch Daly sacrifice fly.
Texas Tech tied the sport up 1-1 with a sacrifice fly of their very own within the backside of the 3rd inning.
Messinger and Daly hit back-to-back solo homers to start out the 5th inning, giving Texas a 3-1 lead over the Purple Raiders.
Texas scored two extra runs on 4 hits within the 6th to increase the lead out to 5-1. Stehly began the inning with a double and scored on an RBI unmarried by means of Ardoin. Dylan Campbell tacked on any other run with an RBI unmarried to power in Faltine.
The Longhorns will go back to UFCU Disch-Falk Box to host Texas A&M on Tuesday at 6:30 p.m.
