FWST: TCU baseball, usually powered by pitching, finds offensive identity

BY CARLOS MENDEZ cmendez@star-telegram.com

It took until last week, but TCU appears finally comfortable with the way it plays.

“A club that’s going to grind — we just do it in a different way,” coach Jim Schlossnagle said Monday at a watch party for the NCAA bracket show. “The last couple of years, it’s been done with pitching and defense. This year, it’s been done with offense and timely pitching.”

A good example? Sunday’s Big 12 tournament championship game against West Virginia.

The Horned Frogs busted out to an 8-0 lead. But by the sixth inning, they trailed 10-9. Finally, relievers Ryan Burnett and Durbin Feltman put up five consecutive scoreless innings, then Ryan Merrill’s sacrifice fly in the ninth and Luken Baker’s home run in the 10th inning won the game. …