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TCU Completes Sweep At Wichita State
Skoug homers, Baker drives in four
WICHITA, Kan. – A six-run fifth inning broke open a close game and TCU cruised to a 12-5 victory over Wichita State, completing its second sweep of the season. The victory pushes TCU’s winning streak to five games.
The Rundown
The Horned Frogs rode a solid pitching performance from Dalton Horton and backed him up with 12 runs. The freshman, making his first career weekend start, allowed a run on two hits, walked one and struck out four to improve to 4-0. He retired the final seven batters he faced.
TCU opened up the scoring in the third inning as it took advantage of a one-out triple from Ryan Merrill. Austen Wade put the Frogs on top with a sacrifice fly.
The teams traded home runs in the fourth. Evan Skoug launched his third of the season, while Gunnar Troutwine delivered his fourth of the campaign to make it a 2-1 game heading to the fifth.
The Horned Frogs sent 11 men to the plate in the fifth and broke the game open with six runs on six hits. Connor Wanhanen led off the inning with a hit and scored from first on a double from Dane Steinhagen. Cam Warner doubled home the second run of the inning.
After an intentional walk to Skoug loaded the bases, Luken Baker cleared them with a double to left center. He scored on an Elliott Barzilli base hit to push the lead to seven, 8-1.
TCU opened up a double-digit lead in the eighth with four runs on three hits. With the bases loaded, Skoug picked up his second RBI of the day. After a ground out drove in the second run of the frame, Barzilli doubled home two more for a 12-2 lead.
Wichita State pushed across three runs in the ninth to account for the final score.
Stat of the Game
9 – Evan Skoug, Luken Baker and Elliott Barzilli combined to drive in nine of TCU’s 12 runs in the game.
Notes
• TCU scored double-digit runs for the 12th time this season.
• TCU tallied double-digit hits for the 16th time this season.
• TCU has scored four or more runs in an inning 25 times this season.
• Cam Warner stretched his hitting streak to 16 games.
• Austen Wade has reached base safely in 15 straight games.
• Elliott Barzilli and Luken Baker have reached base in 12 straight games.
• Elliott Barzilli has hit safely in 12 straight.
• Elliott Barzilli notched his team-leading 16th multi-hit game and the 31st of his career.
• Elliott Barzilli also collected his 11th multiple-RBI game of the season and the 18th of his career.
• Luken Baker notched his eighth multi-hit game and his 10th multiple-RBI game of the season.
• Evan Skoug collected his sixth multiple-RBI game of the season and the 19th of his career.
• Evan Skoug collected his eighth multi-hit game of the season and the 27th of his career.
Next Up
With the victory, TCU improves to 22-5 on the year. TCU will make a brief stop at home on Wednesday when it plays host to UT Arlington at 6:30 p.m. The game will be televised on FSSW+.