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Tech Wins Second Straight Extra-Inning Game
April 30, 2000 | Baseball
April 30, 2000
For the second straight day, the Texas Tech Red Raiders came from behind to defeat the Oklahoma Sooners in extra innings. On Saturday, the Red Raiders won, 8-7, in 12 innings before winning, 15-14, in 10 innings on Sunday afternoon at Dan Law Field. With the victory, Tech moved into fourth place in the Big 12 standings with the final conference series at Oklahoma State in two weeks.
The Sooners jumped on Tech starter Blake McGinley early scoring seven runs off the left-hander in just 1.1 innings. After two innings, the Sooners led 8-2. Oklahoma added three in the fourth and one in the fifth to take a 12-2 lead heading into the bottom of the fifth inning. From that point, the Red Raiders outscored the Sooners 13-2.
Texas Tech scored three runs in the fifth and added six more in the sixth to close to within a run of the lead. In the fifth, Shaun Larkin scored on a Marco Cunningham triple to center for Tech's third run of the game. Jason Rainey blasted his 10th home run of the season to score Cunningham and make the score 12-5. Rainey has homered in four of the last five games.
The Red Raiders sent 10 batters to the plate in the six-run sixth inning. Mark Austry started the inning with his third home run of the season down the rightfield line. Eric McLamore, Scott Holzhauer, Cunningham, Chaz Eiguren and Rainey all scored before Austry flew out to center to end the inning. Trey Lunsford's two-run single pulled Tech to within one run of Oklahoma at 12-11.
Texas Tech tied the game in the seventh on an RBI-single by Holzhauer that scored McLamore. McLamore led off the inning with his seventh double of the year.
The game stayed tied at 12-12 until the ninth when the Sooners scored a pair of runs to take the 14-12 lead. Oklahoma used back-to-back-to-back doubles to take the lead, including two off Tech reliever Kevin Tracey.
In the bottom half of the ninth, Tech scored two runs of their own with two outs. After Oklahoma closer Jeff Bajenaru retired the first two batters, Holzhauer singled to rightfield. He moved to third when Larkin doubled to center. Cunningham tied the game with a double down the leftfield line that scored Holzhauer and Larkin. After Eiguren was intentionally walked, Rainey grounded out and the game went to extra innings.
In the 10th, Oklahoma loaded the bases with two outs before Tim Hooper flew out to Cunningham in centerfield for the third out.
Texas Tech didn't waste any time as Chad Landry walked to start the 10th. After he was replaced at first by pinch runner David Garza, Lunsford laced a single to centerfield. Austry then moved both runners up on a sacrifice bunt. The next batter, David O'Keeffe, sent a single through the middle to score Garza and give Texas Tech the 15-14 victory.
Tracey earned his second victory of the series and seventh of the season. He allowed one run on four hits, a walk and a strikeout over 1.2 relief innings. Tracey replaced Steve Rowe who held the Sooners to one run on one hit in two innings of work.
The Red Raiders improved to 30-20 on the year and 17-10 in the Big 12 while Oklahoma fell to 32-18 overall and 15-9 in the conference. Texas Tech will play the final two games at Dan Law Field on Tuesday and Wednesday. The Red Raiders will host UT-San Antonio with the first on Tuesday scheduled for 7 p.m.
