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Red Raiders Drop Big 12 Home Opener, 7-4
March 28, 2015 | Baseball
Carpenter was the only Red Raider to have a multi-hit game.
March 27, 2015
LUBBOCK, Texas - No. 17 Texas Tech dropped its Big 12 home opener to Kansas, 7-4, on Friday evening in front of 3,595 fans at Dan Law Field at Rip Griffin Park.
Tech (16-10, 1-3 Big 12) dropped its fourth straight game while the Jayhawks (10-15, 1-0 Big 12) won their Big 12 opener with 15 base hits in the series opener.
Kansas had its leadoff batter reach base in 7-of-9 innings while having nine batters reach base via walk and hit-by-pitch. The Jayhawks broke a 4-4 tie in the sixth scoring a pair of runs and never trailed the remainder of the game.
Red Raider freshman left-handed pitcher Parker Mushinski (2-1) received his first career loss pitching an inning in relief allowing two runs on a hit with three walks and two strikeouts.
KU starting pitcher Ben Krauth (5-2) struck out eight batters in 6.2 innings allowing four runs on six hits with five walks.
Texas Tech junior outfielder Quinn Carpenter led the team going 3-for-4 with a run, triple and two RBI.
Tech scored first on Orlando Garcia's ground out in the second inning, which scored Carpenter who tripled earlier in the inning. The Red Raiders plated three runs in the fifth to tie the game at four while Carpenter's two-run single drove in first baseman Eric Gutierrez and designated hitter Cory Raley.
Kansas reliever Stephen Villines tallied his seventh save of the season pitching 2.1 scoreless innings to end the game with two strikeouts.
Tech and Kansas will resume their three-game Big 12 series on Saturday, March 28 with a 2 p.m. first pitch at Rip Griffin Park.
NOTES:
- Texas Tech falls to 33-24 all-time against Kansas with an 18-9 record against the Jayhawks in Lubbock.
- Tech is 10-9 in Big 12 home openers ... Red Raiders have lost four of their last five Big 12 home openers dating back to 2011 ... Tech has now dropped eight of its last nine to Kansas.
- Eric Gutierrez has started in 148 straight games - spanning his entire three-year Tech career.
- Tim Proudfoot has reached base safely in 10 consecutive games.
- Matt Custred recorded his sixth straight scoreless outing ... has thrown in back-to-back games for the first time this season.
- Quinn Carpenter went 3-for-4 tallying a season-high three hits and his fifth multi-hit game of the season.
- Corey Taylor pitched 1.2 scoreless innings ... has made a scoreless outing in eight of his last nine outings.
- Anthony Lyons notched his fourth hit this season as a pinch hitter and is batting .571 (4-for-7) ... he is a career .467 hitter (7-for-15) as a pinch hitter.
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