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Game Notes: Oklahoma vs. Texas Tech (Big 12)
May 27, 2016 | Baseball
Game Notes: Oklahoma vs. Texas Tech (Big 12)
Game Notes: Oklahoma vs. Texas Tech (Big 12)
Location: Oklahoma City - Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark
Result: Win, 17-4 (7)
Attendance: 5,104
Date: May 27, 2016
Notes:
- Oklahoma repeated the exact same lineup and order in back-to-back games for just the third time this season.
- The Sooners had three freshmen in the starting lineup, including pitcher Dylan Grove, marking the 42nd time this season OU has started three or more in a game.
- Oklahoma and Texas Tech have met in the Big 12 Championship 12 times, the most of any Sooner opponent, with OU leading the series, 9-3.
- The Sooners have won seven in a row against the Red Raiders in the tournament.
- Steele Walker hit his team-leading 17th double of the season to tie Sheldon Neuse (2014) for second most by a Sooner freshman on record (1993-present).
- Walker recorded his second multi-hit game of the tournament and 15th of the season.
- Neuse drove in two runs in the first to push his season total to a career-best 48 with his 14th multi-RBI game of the year and 34th of his career.
- Neuse added his 24th multi-hit game of the season and 63rd of his career.
- Oklahoma has scored 11 two-out, third-inning runs in the last two games.
- Austin O'Brien hit his fifth home run of the season and 10th of his career. It marked the first home run for OU at the Big 12 Championship since a solo home run by Anthony Hermelyn in the opener against Kansas State (5/21/15).
- O'Brien collected his 11th multi-hit game of the season and 26th of his career.
- Renae Martinez recorded his third multi-hit game of the season. He is hitting .348 (8-for-23) over the last eight games with nine runs and five RBI.
- Kyle Mendenhall is a career .588 (10-for-17) hitter against Texas Tech.
- The Sooners scored double digit runs for the 14th time this season and the seventh time in 14 games played in May.
- Every Oklahoma hitter recorded a hit for the second day in a row and the third time this season. Eight of nine players had a multi-hit game.
- Cody Thomas recorded his 11th multi-hit game of the season with. He has doubled in four-consecutive games with five total doubles.
- The Sooners have scored three or more runs in an inning 48 times this season.
- Oklahoma has scored 114 runs in the last 14 games.
- The Sooners are 36-32 all-time in the Big 12 Championship and 5-5 under Pete Hughes.
- Oklahoma's 17 runs were the most in a Big 12 Championship game since scoring a program-best 21 against Oklahoma State (5/27/06).
- Dylan Grove pitched a season-high seven innings in the Sooners' first complete-game of the season. It marked the first complete game since Alec Hansen vs. Texas Tech (3/21/15) and first seven-inning complete-game since Jonathan Gray vs. Northwestern State (3/15/13).
- Grove's win marked the 19th of the season by an OU freshman; putting the Sooners one ahead of Texas Tech for the league lead.
- Oklahoma's three run-rule victories this season are the most since three in 2009.
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