LUBBOCK, Texas – Winners of 15 of its last 20 games, Texas Tech Baseball welcomes New Mexico Tuesday afternoon for a 2 p.m. midweek matinee affair from Dan Law Field at Rip Griffin Park.
Fresh off an exciting 12-10 series clinching win on Sunday afternoon against Arizona, Texas Tech will seek to win its 13th home game of the young season. If successful the Red Raiders will eclipse the home win total from a season ago and will move to within just four total wins of tying last season's total number of victories.
Boasting one of the nation's top offenses, the Red Raiders enter the week ranked inside the top-5 in the country in batting average (No. 2), Scoring (No. 2) doubles per game (No. 1), on-base percentage (No. 3) and slugging percentage (No. 4).
The Red Raider bats have scored at least six runs in 20 straight contests and have scored eight times in 18 of those 20 games.
Tuesday's midweek against UNM will be the lone home game for the Red Raiders this week, as Tech will return to the DFW area for the third time this season, when they head to Fort Worth to tangle with TCU.
INSIDE THE MATCHUP:
MATCHUP: Texas Tech (15-8) vs. New Mexico (15-9)
DATE: Tuesday, March 24, 2026
TIME: 2 p.m.
LOCATION: Lubbock, Texas (Dan Law Field at Rip Griffin Park)
PITCHING MATCHUP: RHP Adam Hayes (0-0, 10.12 ERA) vs. RHP Tyler Do (1-2, 9.37 ERA)
HIGHLIGHTS IN 1-2-3:
* Texas Tech enters Tuesday's midweek contest with New Mexico riding a bit of momentum after winning a road series this past weekend at Arizona. With the series win, the Red Raiders opened league play with back-to-back series wins for the first time since the 2022 season when Tech took 2-of-3 from both Texas and on the road against Kansas. The Red Raiders have also won five-straight weekend series for the first time since 2022 and have won back-to-back Big 12 series for the first time since the 2023 campaign when Tech won at Oklahoma (Apr. 14-16) before winning a home weekend set against Baylor (Apr. 21-23)
* Named the Big 12s Newcomer of the Week on Monday, Texas Tech infielder and pitcher Connor Shouse enters the week ranked inside the top-25 in the following offensive categories: Hits (15th), Hits per game (14th), Runs (21st), RBIs (8th) and runs per game (20th). Shouse is hitting .390 with seven home runs and 38 RBIs after hitting .476 (10-for-21) against Arizona and DBU last week. Shouse who homered twice against DBU, hit a game-tying triple in Friday's win over UofA and hit the game-winning home run in Sunday's 12-10 come-from-behind win.
*On Tuesday the Red Raiders will again turn to Freshman Adam Hays, who after starting last week at Dallas Baptist will make his second career start. Hays went 2.1 innings last Tuesday and allowed just two hits and one earned run. Hays, who tossed 49 pitches, struck out two. Hays has made four total appearances including the start against DBU and has struck out five batters in 5.1 innings pitched.
MIDWEEK NOTES:
STAND UP AND SHOUSE
After helping the Red Raiders to a series win at Arizona and hitting 10-for-21 with three home runs and nine RBIs, Texas Tech infielder
Connor Shouse was named the Big 12s Newcomer of the Week on Monday afternoon. Shouse became the third different Red Raider this season to win the league's newcomer weekly honor joining fellow infielder
Linkin Garcia and outfielder
Caden Ferraro. A native of Jasper, Ga., Shouse went 10-for-21 in the Red Raiders four contests last week and hit three home runs and drove in nine. Four of Shouse's 10 hits were for extra bases including three home runs. He also threw a scoreless inning on the mound and struck out two. Shouse recorded at least two hits in all four contests and scored a run in all four games as well. After going 3-for-6 with two home runs and three RBIs on Tuesday against DBU, Shouse combined to go 7-for-15 in the three-game weekend series against the Wildcats helping the Red Raiders to back-to-back Big 12 series wins to open conference play and to five-straight series wins overall. On Friday night, Shouse tied the game on his first triple as a Red Raider and ultimately scored the winning run. On Saturday night, the two-way player went 2-for-5 at the plate and tossed a scoreless eighth inning with two strikeouts. And while the game-tying triple was a big swing, Shouse saved his biggest and most important swing for the series finale at UofA when he lifted a 432-foot three-run home run that gave Tech a 10-7 lead. Shouse also drove in a run in the second inning on a bases loaded free pass. Shouse is now hitting .390 through his first 100 at-bats as a Red Raider and has hit seven home runs and driven in 38 runs. Shouse's slugging percentage sits at an even .700 the second-best mark by a qualified hitter (40+ ABs) on the Red Raiders squad.
LUCKY NUMBER 13
Off to a dynamic 12-2 start at "The Rip" this season, Texas Tech Baseball will seek home win No. 13 on Tuesday afternoon against the Lobos. If the Red Raiders are able to defeat UNM, they would eclipse the home win total from the entire 2025 season, as Tech went a disappointing 12-13 at home a season ago. After scoring just 189 total runs at home in 2025 (7.6 per game), the Red Raider offense through the seasons first 14 games has already scored 184 times this season, meaning the Red Raiders need just five total runs to equal the entire 25-game 2025 home output and six runs to eclipse it. So far at home this season, the Red Raiders are hitting .400 at the friendly confines of Rip Griffin Park, as four Red Raiders are hitting better than .400 at home:
Caden Ferraro (.488),
Jesse Rusinek (.476),
Linkin Garcia (.444) and
Logan Hughes (.412). The Red Raiders have recorded a home OPS of 1.190 and have hit 28 home runs and 52 doubles.
RACKING UP THE SERIES WINS
After winning 2-of-3 on the weekend in Arizona, the Red Raiders have now won all five weekend series in 2026. The streak started with a four-game weekend sweep of UAlbany (Feb. 20-22), the first four-game sweep for a Red Raider team since the 2023 season. After taking 2-of-3 from CSU Bakersfield, Tech swept Penn State the following weekend in three-game series before taking 2-of-3 from KU to open Big 12 play. The Red Raiders have won five straight series for the first time since 2022 when Tech won series against Kent State, Merrimack, at Rice, vs. No. 2 Texas and at Kansas. The Red Raiders have also won back-to-back series in Big 12 play for the first time since the 2023 season when Tech took 2-of-3 in Norman against Oklahoma (Apr. 21-23) and at home against Baylor (Apr. 21-23). The Red Raiders last won the first two series of Big 12 play during that 2022 stretch when they defeated the second-ranked Longhorns and KU to open Big 12 play. If Tech is able to win the series this weekend at TCU, they will start the year with three-straight Big 12 series victories for the first time since the 2018 season when the Red Raiders went 15-9 in league play and advanced to Omaha for the second time in program history. Tech enters the weekend tied for third in the Big 12 standings, just one game behind UCF (5-1) and West Virginia (5-1). Tech is tied with both Arizona State and KU at 4-2, but the Red Raiders have the tiebreaker over the Jayhawks by virtue of the series win two weekends ago.
LOBOS AND RED RAIDERS USUALLY MEANS RUNS
Known as two of the better offensive programs year-in-and-year-out, when the Red Raiders and Lobos meet in a midweek contest it usually leans toward being more offensive, as the program who has won the last five matchups in the series and nine of the last 10 matchups have scored double figures. In fact just once have the Red Raiders and Lobos met since 2016 in the regular season without the cumulative total number of runs scored in the game equaling 10 (19 matchups). The lone matchup that featured less than 10 combined runs was a Mar. 7, 2023, 6-3 Texas Tech win. The Red Raiders enter the midweek contest second overall in the country in both average (.364) and scoring (11.0), while UNM is currently 28th in the country (.314) in batting average and 29th in scoring (8.9).
HAYS ON THE BUMP
When he takes the ball in the top of the first on Tuesday afternoon, freshman Adam Hays will become the first Red Raider this season to start consecutive midweek contests. In fact, the righty from Colorado will become the first Red Raider midweek pitcher to start multiple midweek contests this season. The Red Raiders started lefty Jorden Espinoza in the first midweek contest of the season at UTRGV, before turning to Jackson Burns and Donovan Becerra in the two-game series against UTRGV. Hays started last Tuesday's midweek contest at DBU and pitched well, tossing 2.1 innings of two-run (one earned) ball. Hays struck out two batters and threw 49 total pitches. The game was his first career start.
UP NEXT:
The Red Raiders hit the road once again this weekend for a Big 12 series at TCU. First pitch Friday night is set for 6 p.m.
