Tech drops Saturday double dip to BU

Saturday, May 2

Waco, TX

2 p.m.

Texas Tech Athletics

22-23, 6-16

Baylor

24-21, 10-12

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Runs R	Hits H	Errors E
Texas Tech	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	4	2
Baylor	1	1	1	0	2	1	0	2	X	8	11	2

Texas Tech infielder Tracer Lopez takes a swing during Tech's Saturday doubleheader at Baylor

May 03, 2026 | Baseball

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Senior Tracer Lopez eclipsed 230 hits and moved into sixth all-time on Tech's hit list Saturday

By: Andrew Stern

WACO, Texas – Texas Tech Baseball fell 8-1 and 10-9 in a doubleheader Saturday against Baylor at Magnolia Field at Baylor Ballpark.

In the doubleheader, Texas Tech (22-24, 6-17 Big 12) senior Tracer Lopez went 3-for-8 eclipsing 230 career hits. Through his 209 career games he sits in solo sixth on the Red Raiders with 231 base hits, he needs just four more hits to catch Randy DuRoss for fifth all-time on the hits list.

Down 10-2 in the nightcap, Tech nearly erased the full deficit, pulling to within 10-6 in the eighth with the bases loaded and two outs and to 10-9 with the tying run on third in the ninth again with two away.

The rally was jumpstarted by a lead-off solo home run in the eighth from centerfielder Kyler Thompson as well as a two-run blast from outfielder
Connor Shouse. Thompson's blast traveled 404 feet and left the speedy outfielders bat at 107 MPH, while Shouse's home run traveled 443 feet and was hit 109 MPH.

The longball for Shouse was one of two he would hit in the nightcap, and was the first longball the sophomore has hit since Mar. 27 at TCU. Shouse also homered twice in the Red Raiders midweek contest at DBU (Mar. 17).

To within 10-5, the Red Raiders got back-to-back doubles from Logan Hughes and Linkin Garcia to get to within 10-6. Hughes double was hit directly to center and clanged off the batter's eye while Garcia's was a 104 MPH rocket into the right field corner.

Down just 10-6, the Red Raiders loaded the bases with two outs, but Baylor's (25-21, 10-11 Big 12) Caleb Bunch used a strikeout of Thompson to take a 10-6 lead into the home half of the eighth.

Entering with an ERA below three, Bunch allowed five hits and three runs. He struck out three and expended 41 pitches.

After a scoreless shutdown inning from Connor Mohan, the Red Raiders used a solo one-out home run from Shouse to jumpstart another crooked number in the ninth. The zero fired by Mohan stopped a string of eight-straight innings with at least a one run scored by Baylor.

Shouse's second blast was 107 off the bat and traveled 398-feet.

To within three runs for the first time since the third inning, Tech got three-straight singles from Hughes, Garcia and Caden Ferraro to load the bases with one out.

Batting as the go-ahead run and ahead in the count 3-1, Quintanar lifted a sac-fly to get the Red Raiders to within 10-8.

Down to their final out, the Red Raiders turned to the last position player on the bench, Jace Souza who singled through the right-side on the first pitch he saw from Bunch.The base hit cut the Baylor lead to 10-9 and put Ferraro on third.

With the go-ahead run on base, Baylor turned to Grayson Murray, who coaxed a fly ball deep into the left-center field gap that was run down by Johnson for the 27th and final out.

On the day, the Red Raiders were led by Shouse who went 5-for-7 with six RBIs. He homered in his final two at-bats of game two, after driving in Tech's lone run in the first game.

In Game One, the Red Raiders got a lead-off single from Kyeler Thompson, but Baylor's Lucas Davenport hung the ever-important first inning zero using a caught stealing/perfect throw from his battery mate JJ Kennett to cut down Thompson trying to steal second.

During the double dip, Thompson went 2-for-5 with an eighth inning home run in Game Two.

After the scoreless first inning at the dish, the Red Raiders saw Baylor use a lead-off double from former Red Raider Travis Sanders and back-to-back productive groundballs to take a 1-0 lead.

Down by just a run, the Red Raiders struck for the tying run when a Shouse single plated catcher Matt Quintanar to tie the game at one-all.

Tied again, Tech starter Kaysen Raineri retired the first batter of the second, before BU used three-straight singles to take the lead for good. Raineri tossed five innings and allowed eight hits and five runs in his first career Big 12 start. He struck out two and walked two suffering his first loss. He was previously 4-0.

The final hit, an RBI single from Baylor's Cole Lancols scored center fielder Ty Johnson from second. The hit was Lancols first career hit, as the Freshman entered the day 0-for-10. He went 2-for-5 in game one before going 1-for-4 in the backend of the double dip.

In the third, Tech placed Thompson on second with two outs, but Baylor's righty, Davenport struck out Linkin Garcia on four pitches to strand the tying run on base.

After Baylor used the first of two Tyce Armstrong solo home runs on the day to take a 3-1 lead, Davenport stranded another free pass, using a the first of two double plays to fire another shutdown inning.

Following a Raineri scoreless bottom of the fourth, Tech got the lead-off man on via a HBP, but another two-ball this time one of the 5-4-3 variety allowed Davenport to escape the fifth with no damage.

In the fifth, Baylor struck for two more runs on an RBI single from Armstrong and a sac-fly. The hit and productive out gave the Bears a commanding 5-1 lead.

Down by four, the Red Raiders nearly had first and third with two outs, but a well executed 3-6 put out at third base again extinguished a Red Raider threat.

Using another sac-fly to take a 6-1 lead, Baylor saw Davenport retire nine of the final 10 batters of the game, five via the strikeout, to close out the complete game one-run gem.

The lone batter to reach in that span, Ferraro, reached on an E5 in the seventh with one out. Afte the error, Davenport retired the final eight Red Raiders in order.

The righty allowed just four hits and the Shouse RBI. He struck out 11 and did not walk a batter. He is just the second pitcher this season, to strike out
10-plus Tech batters in an outing joining Oklahoma's Cam Johnson. Johnson fanned 11 in 5.2 innings on opening day.

Tech fell to 0-17 this season when trailing after eight innings and are now 1-58 in their last 59 contests when trailing going to the ninth.

The lone win was against Illinois last Feb. 28, 2025 when Damian Bravo hit a game-tying home run to jumpstart a six-run ninth in the Red Raiders 10-6 win over Illinois.

In the setback the Red Raiders did get two innings of one-run relief from Bryce Suiter and two strikeouts from Logan Addison. Addison has now whiffed 24 batters and walked just five in 18 total innings. He has not allowed a run in nine of his last 11 outings and has struck out 16 batters in 10.1 Big 12 innings pitched.

UP NEXT:
The Red Raiders will look to snap a nine-game Big 12 losing streak and avoid a third-straight Big 12 sweep Sunday afternoon against Baylor. First pitch is set for 1 p.m.