Tech drops series, 11-inning heartbreaker to TCU

Sunday, March 23

Lubbock, Texas

1 p.m.

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7-13, 0

TCU

17-7, 0

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Tech drops series, 11-inning heartbreaker to TCU

March 23, 2025 | Baseball

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The Red Raiders led 4-1 and 5-3 before falling 9-5 in extras

By: Andrew Stern

LUBBOCK, Texas – Up 4-1 headed to the fourth and 5-3 headed to the seventh, Texas Tech Baseball fell 9-5 in 11 innings Sunday afternoon to TCU at Dan Law Field at Rip Griffin Park.

Locked in a tight 5-5 game, the Red Raiders (7-13, 4-2 Big 12) looked to be in business in the home half of the ninth when freshman Coleman Ryan lead-off of the frame with a single through the right side.

Tech's next batter, outfielder Kyeler Thompson, laid down a pair of bunts on the first two pitches he saw from TCUs (17-7, 3-3) Kade Eudy that just rolled foul.

After taking a pitch high in the zone, Thompson once again pushed a bunt down the first base line that this time before rolling foul clipped the first base bag.

Showing off his speed, Thompson beat the ball to the bag, and Tech had its two fastest runners on base with the heart of its lineup up.

Sitting at 2-for-3 on the day with a walk and a three-run home run, Damian Bravo flashed bunt on the first pitch he saw from Eudy and popped the ball up for the first out.

The Red Raiders next batter, first baseman Robin Villeneuve, got ahead in the count 3-1 before grounding into an inning-ending double play to send the game to the 10th.

Returning to the mound for his fourth inning of work and with three scoreless in the books, reliever Trendan Parish stranded a one-out double on second base on a pair of strikeouts, one looking and one swinging.

Parish took the hard-luck loss on Sunday, as the righty allowed two runs in 4.2 innings. He struck out five and did not walk a batter.

In the 10th, Tech got a 110 MPH lead-off single from outfielder Logan Hughes before TCU again used a two-ball to escape a jam.

Armed with a bit of momentum, TCU got a lead-off single from pinch hitter Jack Bell to place the go-ahead run on first.

After a batters interference put the first out of the inning on the board and negated a stolen base by Bell, TCUs Saywer Strosnider delivered the biggest swing of thw eeeknd for TCU when he golfed a 1-2 slider in the dirt from Parish into the Jetstream and over the right field wall for a two-run home run.

With two outs in the 11th, TCU added two runs on back-to-back doubles and a two-out bloop single.

Up by four, the Horned Frogs worked around a two-out walk to fire a scoreless 11th and close out the rubber-game victory.

After falling behind early 1-0 and going down in order in both the first and second, Tech rebounded in the bottom of the third, using three straight singles from Tracer Lopez, Ryan and Kyeler Thompson to tie the game at one.

Thompson, Ryan and Lopez all recorded multiple hits on the afternoon and scored a run.

With runners on the corners and one out, Tech's next batter Bravo, launched a 392-foot home run that cleared the Red Raider bullpen in left off of TCUs Kole Klecker.

The blast gave Tech a 4-1 lead and chased Kelcker from the game after just 2.1 innings.

Down by three runs, TCU immediately answered off Tech's starter Zane Petty in the fourth when they used a lead-off double and a hit batter to put runners on first and second. Following a pop-up and an infield single loaded the bases, Petty rebounded to strike out TCUs Jack Arthur on three pitches.

Just one out from escaping the inning and throwing up a zero in a shutdown inning, Petty got ahead of Strosnider 0-2 before the rightfielder poked a two-run single into right that cut the Tech lead to 4-3.

The game remained 4-3 Tech until the bottom of the sixth when the Red Raiders used a two-out RBI single from Tracer Lopez to pull in front 5-3.

With two perfect innings under his belt, sophomore Logan Bevis coaxed a ground ball to open the top of the seventh that TCUs Jack Arthur initially was able to beat out for a hit. Seeing a throw go wide of the base, Arthur broke towards second before deciding against it. Thinking he did not re-establish his path, Villeneuve slapped the tag on Arthur but the umpire crew deemed that the runner re-established his basepath.

With the tying-run at the plate in the form of Strosnider, TCU eventually tied it when the outfielder launched a 2-0 fastball from Bevis for his first of two, two-run home runs on the afternoon.

The homer was the final pitch that Bevis threw, as Tech turned to Parish who used three straight grounders to send the game to the seventh.

After a pair of singles from Bravo and Hughes put the go-ahead runner in scoring position with two outs, catcher Dylan Maxcey ripped one 101 MPH to center that Chase Brunson was able to chase down for the third and final out.

Returning for the eighth and ninth, Parish worked around singular base runners in both half innings to send the game to the ninth.

As previously stated, TCU used the key shutdown innings in the ninth and 10th as well as the clutch swing from Strosnider to win the series, 2-1.

UP NEXT:
The Red Raiders will close out the four-game homestand on Tuesday afternoon when Tarleton State visits for a midweek contest. First pitch from Dan Law Field at Rip Griffin Park is set for 2 p.m.