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Cowboys Fall To Texas Tech
April 05, 2014 | Cowboy Baseball
April 5, 2014
STILLWATER, Okla. – Oklahoma State had its four-game winning streak snapped Saturday as No. 25 Texas Tech defeated the 20th-ranked Cowboys, 16-6, in front of a near-capacity crowd at Allie P. Reynolds Stadium.
With the loss, OSU fell to 21-10 overall and 4-4 in Big 12 Conference play, while the Red Raiders are now 24-10 and 5-6 in the league heading into Sunday's rubber game scheduled for a 1 p.m. start.
The 16 runs allowed by the Cowboys is the most an OSU opponent has scored this season. Coach Josh Holliday's club had not allowed more than four runs in its previous 10 games.
“We didn't play very well in any phase of the game, and Texas Tech came out and played an aggressive ball game and took advantage of some mistakes and took it to us,” Holliday said. “But it's just one game. The series is tied, and we need to rest up, recharge the battery and come out (Sunday) and try to win the series.”
TTU took command early against OSU starter Tyler Buffett, who suffered the loss and fell to 2-1. Adam Kirsch got things going with a home run to lead off the top of the second, one of two round trippers on the day for the Red Raiders' designated hitter as he finished 3-for-5 with six RBIs.
The visitors were not done as later in the inning, Tim Proudfoot delivered an RBI single to put TTU up, 2-0.
The Red Raiders tacked on a run in the third inning, then rallied for six runs on four hits in the fifth. In that inning, Kirsch picked up two RBIs on a double, while Zach Davis and Tyler Floyd each collected two-RBI singles to push the TTU lead to 9-0.
After being shut out in each of the first four innings by TTU starter Johnathon Tripp, the Cowboys finally tallied a run in the fifth. Gage Green led off the frame with a single, a hit that ended Tripp's day on the mound, and three batters later, Tim Arakawa made it 9-1 with a two-out, RBI single.
TTU rallied for multiple runs in the sixth, seventh and ninth innings, while OSU's lone multi-run inning came in the seventh.
In that inning, pinch hitter Andrew Rosa delivered his first-career home run, a two-run blast to left field, and Hunter Hagler followed with the first homer and first RBI of his career.
