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No. 23 Texas Tech Wins Series Opener Over Baylor
April 11, 2015 | Baseball
Texas Tech sophomore right-handed pitcher Ryan Moseley struck out at least one batter in all six innings pitched.
April 10, 2015
LUBBOCK, Texas - No. 23 Texas Tech defeated Baylor 8-4 behind sophomore right-handed pitcher Ryan Moseley's career-high eight strikeouts in six innings on Friday evening in the Big 12 series opener in front of 3,974 fans at Dan Law Field at Rip Griffin Park.
Tech (20-14, 5-5 Big 12) captured its second Big 12 series opener win while improving to 17-6 at home this season. Baylor (13-20, 4-6 Big 12) dropped to 2-9 on the road this season.
Moseley (3-3) was dominating during his six frames while striking out at least one batter in each inning and recording two strikeouts in the third and fourth innings. He allowed one run on four hits with eight strikeouts and four walks.
Leading 4-1 through six innings, Tech sophomore outfielder Stephen Smith led off the bottom of the seventh with his team-leading fifth home run of the season to start a four-run inning for the Red Raiders.
Junior outfielder Zach Davis went 3-for-5 with a run scored, RBI and stolen base. Junior outfielder Tyler Neslony went 2-for-5 with a pair of doubles and junior outfielder Quinn Carpenter went 2-for-5 with a pair of RBI. Freshman second baseman Michael Davis went 2-for-4 with a run scored.
For the first time this season every starting Red Raider position player had at least one base hit.
The Red Raiders scored two runs in the first inning on Neslony's RBI double and Gutierrez' RBI groundout to third base. Tech added its third run the following inning with Smith's bases-loaded walk.
Carpenter gave Tech a four-run lead (4-0) with a two-out RBI single up the middle to score catcher Tyler Floyd.
Tech's four-run seventh included Smith's homer, Carpenter's RBI double and Zach Davis' RBI infield single.
Five Red Raiders had an RBI and seven players scored a run in the win.
Senior right-handed pitcher Corey Taylor pitched a scoreless inning in relief with a strikeout and junior right-handed pitcher Matt Custred finished the game throwing a scoreless ninth inning with three strikeouts.
Tech's pitching staff, including junior righty Dalton Brown who struck out the side in the eighth, finished with 15 strikeouts.
Tech and Baylor will play game two of their Big 12 series on Saturday, April 11 with first pitch set for 2:07 p.m. at Rip Griffin Park. All three games of the series will be televised on FOX Sports Southwest Plus.
NOTES:
- Texas Tech improved to 80-76 all-time against Baylor with a 51-25 record against the Bears in Lubbock ... Under Tadlock, Tech has won three of the last four against Baylor in Lubbock dating back to 2013 ... Tech has won back-to-back series openers over Baylor in Lubbock.
- Texas Tech scored in the first inning for the 12th time this season ... Red Raiders are now outscoring their opponents 28-4 in the first inning this season.
- Ryan Moseley last two starts: 1-1, 1.29 ERA, 14.0 IP, 7 H, 3 R, 2 ER, 15 SO.
- Ryan Moseley has posted a career-high in strikeouts in back-to-back starts.
- Ryan Moseley is holding opponents to a .104 (5-for-48) batting average with two outs this season ... held Baylor to 0-for-6 batting with two outs.
- Zach Davis notched his third multi-hit game of the season (5th career).
- Quinn Carpenter is batting .440 (11-for-25) with runners in scoring position this season ... leads the team with eight two-out RBI.
- Quinn Carpenter notched his seventh multi-hit game ... posted his fifth multiple RBI game.
- Tyler Neslony has reached base safely in 15 consecutive games.
- Tyler Neslony posted his 11th multi-hit game of the season (33rd career) ... tied with Gutierrez for the team lead in multi-hit games.
- Tyler Neslony threw out a runner at second base trying to stretch a single into a double ... recorded third outfield assist of the season (7th career).
- Stephen Smith hit his sixth career home run ... he has homered in three of his last five games played.
- Stephen Smith recorded his Big 12-leading 31st walk of the season ... has at least one walk in 22-of-30 games played this season.
- Michael Davis notched his sixth multi-hit game of the season.
- Eric Gutierrez has started in 156 straight games - spanning his entire three-year Tech career.
- Eric Gutierrez has an eight-game hit streak ... has reached base safely in 11 consecutive games.
