Texas Tech University Athletics
Thursday, May 7
6:30 p.m.
Texas Tech Athletics
25-24, 8-17
2
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BYU
24-24, 12-13
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Runs R | Hits H | Errors E |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BYU | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 |
| Texas Tech | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | X | 2 | 6 | 1 |
Tech downs BYU 2-1 to win series opener
May 08, 2026 | Baseball
Logan Hughes launched a go-ahead home run and Jonny Lowe and Logan Addison contributed four innings of one-hit ball
LUBBOCK, Texas – Locked in a tight pitcher's-duel that carried deep into the night, Texas Tech Baseball used an RBI single from senior Tracer Lopez and a backside laser solo home run from Logan Hughes to defeat BYU, 2-1 Thursday night at Dan Law Field at Rip Griffin Park.
Playing their fourth Big 12 Conference game in six days due to the Thursday start combined with last week's Saturday double dip, Texas Tech (25-24, 8-17 Big 12) turned in one of its most complete games of the season to win for the third-straight game.
After snapping a nine-game Big 12 Conference losing streak in Sunday's 8-3 win, Tech has now won back-to-back Big 12 games to move into sole possession of the final spot in the 2026 Big 12 Tournament held later this month in Surprise, Arizona. The Red Raiders sit one-half game ahead of Arizona who plays host to Houston beginning on Friday night.
In a season that has been defined by the offense, it was the Tech pitching that shined on Thursday, as starter Kaysen Raineri, and relievers Jonny Lowe and Logan Addison combined to toss nine innings of four-hit, one-run ball. The Red Raider trio struck out 10 with Lowe picking up his third win of the season and Addison recording his first career save.
With BYUs (24-24, 12-13 Big 12) southpaw Wayland Crane perfect through three and tossing a no-hitter deep into the fifth, the Red Raiders faced a 1-0 deficit after back-to-back singles and back-to-back productive ground balls scored Cougars catcher Ridge Erickson.
The final groundout was off the bat of BYU SS Ruder Robinson who walked twice in four trips to the plate driving in the lone run of the night for BYU.
Down 1-0 and with two outs in the fifth, the Red Raiders finally got their first hit of the ballgame when first baseman Robin Villeneuve singled up the middle.
After Lowe himself worked around a two-out base hit in the sixth to fire a zero, the Red Raiders finally put the lead-off man on base in the home-half of the sixth when Kyeler Thompson singled to center.
With Thompson at first, Crane spiked a breaking ball that Erickson was able to initially knock down before the ball squirted up the first base line, allowing the speedy Thompson to alertly take second.
The wild pitch proved to be important as just a few pitches later, Thompson was able to come around a score on a single from Lopez, who went 2-for-3 on Thursday with a walk. With the two hits, the Rosebud native tied Randy DuRoss for fifth all-time on the Texas Tech hit list with 235 hits.
Lopez also played in his 212th career games moving into a tie with Michael Davis and Madison Edwards for fourth on the all-time games played list and reached 778 at-bats to pull to within four ABs of tying Taylor Ashby for the third-most career at-bats (782).
After Crane rebounded to put the first two outs of the inning on the board on a 5-4-3 double play, Hughes turned on a 90 MPH fastball from the lefty Crane, ripping a 105 MPH, 21.6 degree laser over the Cougar bullpen in the left.
The homer travelled 386-feet and was his 15th longball of the season and 34th homer as a Red Raider. Hughes has now homered in three straight games and in six of the last 13 games.
The blast was also Hughes' 18th career Big 12 longball tying him with Cameron Blair for the fourth-most Big 12 home runs in program history. Hughes needs just one more Big 12 RBI to crack the top-10 in Big 12 Only runs driven in.
On top for the first time all night, Lowe made the two runs stand up in the seventh when he stranded a two-out walk to Erickson on a line drive to center.
Turning to Addison for the eighth, the freshman reliever struck out Ezra McNaughton after his 2-2 swing sailed just foul down the right field line, falling short of a home run by a couple of feet.
With one out and nobody on, Addison walked Robinson on five-pitches and threw an errant pickoff attempt to place the Cougars first runner in scoring position since the fifth for BYUs fourth and fifth place hitters in third baseman Easton Jones and DH Crew McChesney.
Needing to retire both Jones and McChesney to keep his team on top, Addison struck out Jones swinging and got McChesney to ground out to Coleman Ryan at short.
In the eighth, the Red Raiders got a lead-off single from Lopez and a productive ground out to place a key insurance run at second with one out for Hughes.
After a pitching change, BYU intentionally walked Hughes to put two on with one out for Linkin Garcia. BYU ultimately got Garcia to line out to third to put the second out of the inning on the board.
Facing a tough lefty-lefty matchup, Tech DH Caden Ferraro ripped a 105 MPH grounder through the middle that Robinson was able to field in the shift and win a foot race to the second base bag to end the Red Raider threat.
In the ninth, Addison used a first-pitch flyout to put the first out of the inning on the board before losing a full-count battle to pinch-hitter Matt Hansen.
After being lifted for a pinch-runner in Ryker Schow, BYU decided to put Schow in motion on the third pitch of the at-bat to centerfielder Tualau Wolfgramm.
On what turned out to be a key turning point, Tech executed a perfect caught stealing, using a perfect throw from catcher Matt Quintanar to Lopez to erase the tying run.
The caught stealing was one of two on the night for Quintanar who has now caught 20-of-47 would-be base stealers (42.6 percent). For comparison purposes the average MLB catcher has thrown out 29 percent of runners attempting to steal and Quintanar's nearly 43
percent caught stealing rate would have been tied for first in all of MLB a season ago.
Guardians catcher Austin Hedges threw out 13-of-30 would-be base stealers while Mets catcher Louis Torrens gunned down 19 of 44 runners who attempted to steal a season ago.
Quintanar's 20 base runners thrown out attempting to steal leads the Big 12 and is nine more than Kansas State's Bear Madliak and Zak Skinner of UCF. Quintanar would lead all four Power-4 conferences.
With the tying run erased and the bases empty and two out, Addison got Wolfgramm to swing and miss on back-to-back pitches to seal the Red Raiders 25th win of the season and record his first career save.
Addison went two hitless innings and whiffed three batters and now fanned 19 batters in 13.1 Big 12 innings. Opposing Big 12 batters are hitting just .188 against the righty.
UP NEXT:
The Red Raiders continue the weekend series with BYU on Friday night. First pitch from Lubbock is set for 6:30 p.m.
Playing their fourth Big 12 Conference game in six days due to the Thursday start combined with last week's Saturday double dip, Texas Tech (25-24, 8-17 Big 12) turned in one of its most complete games of the season to win for the third-straight game.
After snapping a nine-game Big 12 Conference losing streak in Sunday's 8-3 win, Tech has now won back-to-back Big 12 games to move into sole possession of the final spot in the 2026 Big 12 Tournament held later this month in Surprise, Arizona. The Red Raiders sit one-half game ahead of Arizona who plays host to Houston beginning on Friday night.
In a season that has been defined by the offense, it was the Tech pitching that shined on Thursday, as starter Kaysen Raineri, and relievers Jonny Lowe and Logan Addison combined to toss nine innings of four-hit, one-run ball. The Red Raider trio struck out 10 with Lowe picking up his third win of the season and Addison recording his first career save.
With BYUs (24-24, 12-13 Big 12) southpaw Wayland Crane perfect through three and tossing a no-hitter deep into the fifth, the Red Raiders faced a 1-0 deficit after back-to-back singles and back-to-back productive ground balls scored Cougars catcher Ridge Erickson.
The final groundout was off the bat of BYU SS Ruder Robinson who walked twice in four trips to the plate driving in the lone run of the night for BYU.
Down 1-0 and with two outs in the fifth, the Red Raiders finally got their first hit of the ballgame when first baseman Robin Villeneuve singled up the middle.
After Lowe himself worked around a two-out base hit in the sixth to fire a zero, the Red Raiders finally put the lead-off man on base in the home-half of the sixth when Kyeler Thompson singled to center.
With Thompson at first, Crane spiked a breaking ball that Erickson was able to initially knock down before the ball squirted up the first base line, allowing the speedy Thompson to alertly take second.
The wild pitch proved to be important as just a few pitches later, Thompson was able to come around a score on a single from Lopez, who went 2-for-3 on Thursday with a walk. With the two hits, the Rosebud native tied Randy DuRoss for fifth all-time on the Texas Tech hit list with 235 hits.
Lopez also played in his 212th career games moving into a tie with Michael Davis and Madison Edwards for fourth on the all-time games played list and reached 778 at-bats to pull to within four ABs of tying Taylor Ashby for the third-most career at-bats (782).
After Crane rebounded to put the first two outs of the inning on the board on a 5-4-3 double play, Hughes turned on a 90 MPH fastball from the lefty Crane, ripping a 105 MPH, 21.6 degree laser over the Cougar bullpen in the left.
The homer travelled 386-feet and was his 15th longball of the season and 34th homer as a Red Raider. Hughes has now homered in three straight games and in six of the last 13 games.
The blast was also Hughes' 18th career Big 12 longball tying him with Cameron Blair for the fourth-most Big 12 home runs in program history. Hughes needs just one more Big 12 RBI to crack the top-10 in Big 12 Only runs driven in.
On top for the first time all night, Lowe made the two runs stand up in the seventh when he stranded a two-out walk to Erickson on a line drive to center.
Turning to Addison for the eighth, the freshman reliever struck out Ezra McNaughton after his 2-2 swing sailed just foul down the right field line, falling short of a home run by a couple of feet.
With one out and nobody on, Addison walked Robinson on five-pitches and threw an errant pickoff attempt to place the Cougars first runner in scoring position since the fifth for BYUs fourth and fifth place hitters in third baseman Easton Jones and DH Crew McChesney.
Needing to retire both Jones and McChesney to keep his team on top, Addison struck out Jones swinging and got McChesney to ground out to Coleman Ryan at short.
In the eighth, the Red Raiders got a lead-off single from Lopez and a productive ground out to place a key insurance run at second with one out for Hughes.
After a pitching change, BYU intentionally walked Hughes to put two on with one out for Linkin Garcia. BYU ultimately got Garcia to line out to third to put the second out of the inning on the board.
Facing a tough lefty-lefty matchup, Tech DH Caden Ferraro ripped a 105 MPH grounder through the middle that Robinson was able to field in the shift and win a foot race to the second base bag to end the Red Raider threat.
In the ninth, Addison used a first-pitch flyout to put the first out of the inning on the board before losing a full-count battle to pinch-hitter Matt Hansen.
After being lifted for a pinch-runner in Ryker Schow, BYU decided to put Schow in motion on the third pitch of the at-bat to centerfielder Tualau Wolfgramm.
On what turned out to be a key turning point, Tech executed a perfect caught stealing, using a perfect throw from catcher Matt Quintanar to Lopez to erase the tying run.
The caught stealing was one of two on the night for Quintanar who has now caught 20-of-47 would-be base stealers (42.6 percent). For comparison purposes the average MLB catcher has thrown out 29 percent of runners attempting to steal and Quintanar's nearly 43
percent caught stealing rate would have been tied for first in all of MLB a season ago.
Guardians catcher Austin Hedges threw out 13-of-30 would-be base stealers while Mets catcher Louis Torrens gunned down 19 of 44 runners who attempted to steal a season ago.
Quintanar's 20 base runners thrown out attempting to steal leads the Big 12 and is nine more than Kansas State's Bear Madliak and Zak Skinner of UCF. Quintanar would lead all four Power-4 conferences.
With the tying run erased and the bases empty and two out, Addison got Wolfgramm to swing and miss on back-to-back pitches to seal the Red Raiders 25th win of the season and record his first career save.
Addison went two hitless innings and whiffed three batters and now fanned 19 batters in 13.1 Big 12 innings. Opposing Big 12 batters are hitting just .188 against the righty.
UP NEXT:
The Red Raiders continue the weekend series with BYU on Friday night. First pitch from Lubbock is set for 6:30 p.m.
Team Stats
Pitching:
W: Lowe, Jonny (3-1)
L: Wayland Crane (2-4)
S: Addison, Logan (1)
Batting:
2B: Luke Anderson 1
RBI: Ryder Robinson 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Ridge Erickson 1
CS: Bryker Hurdsman 1 ; Ryker Schow 1
Batting:
HR: Hughes, Logan 1
RBI: Lopez, Tracer 1 ; Hughes, Logan 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Thompson, Kyeler 1 ; Hughes, Logan 1
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