Tuesday Night Baseball in Tulsa vs. ORU

April 11 | 6:30 P.M. | Tulsa, Okla. | J.L. Johnson Stadium

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Oral Roberts

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Midweek Pitching Match-Up
First Pitch	Oklahoma	Oral Roberts
Tuesday 6:30 pm	RHP-Austin Hansen (3-0, 2.39)	RHP-Logan Michaels (3-1, 2.45)
>>>Last Start	Oral Roberts (4/4): ND, 3.0 IP, 2 H, 1 R, 1 K	at Missouri State (4/1): W, 6.0 IP, 3 H, 1 R, 8 K

Oklahoma Sooners
Record: 27-8 (5-4 Big 12) Coach: Pete Hughes (4th Season) Career Record/Years: 644-476-3/21 Rank: 11^BA/14^CBN/16^USA/18^D1B

Oral Roberts Golden Eagles
Record: 22-9 (11-1 Summit) Coach: Ryan Folmar (5th Season) Career Record/Years: 156-104/5 Rank: NR

On the Air
Stream	ESPN3 Al Jerkins George Frazier
Radio	KREF 1400 AM TuneIn Radio App Toby Rowland

Player to Watch
1B-Austin O'Brien, Sr. In his first game back from a torn UCL that kept him out for 12 games, O'Brien went 2-or-4 against ORU last Tuesday with a game-winning grand slam in the seventh.

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FIRST PITCH

The No. 11 University of Oklahoma baseball team is on the road all week in non-conference action beginning Tuesday, April 11 at Oral Roberts. The Sooners and Golden Eagles take the field at J.L. Johnson Stadium for a 6:30 p.m. start. Tuesday night's game will be broadcast across the Sooners Sports Network; airing locally on the Sportstalk 1400 AM/99.3 FM. The voice of the Sooners Toby Rowland (play-by-play) will have the call. Video of the game will be streamed on ESPN3 and the WatchESPN app for mobile devices. Al Jerkins (pbp) and former Sooner and 10-year MLB veteran George Frazier (color commentary) will broadcast the game.

ABOUT THE SOONERS

Oklahoma dropped its series at Texas over the weekend to move to 27-8 overall and 5-4 in the Big 12. The Sooners fell in the first two games in Austin before salvaging the series with a 2-1 come-from-behind win in Sunday's finale. Senior catcher Renae Martinez followed up his Big 12 Player of the Week honor by .615 (8-for-13) last week to take over the team lead with a .369 batting average. He has homered five rimes with seven doubles and 26 RBI. Sophomore Brylie Ware, who divides his time between first base and designated hitter, is hitting .352; good enough for second on the team. He went 4-for-11 at Texas and owns a team-leading .445 on-base percentage, including a Big 12-leading eight times hit by a pitch. Sophomore outfielder Steele Walker is third with a .346 average and is tied with Martinez and junior second baseman Kyle Mendenhall with a team-leading five home runs. Walker also leads the Sooners with 10 doubles, 32 RBI and 31 runs. For the second week in a row, sophomore right-hander Austin Hansen gets the nod against ORU. Overall, he is 3-0 with a 2.39 earned run average and 21 strikeouts. He went three innings in a short start last week.

THE FORECAST

Projected Starters
OU Lineup	BA/OBP/SLG	Notes
CF-Ben Hollas	.297/.440/.418	Game-winning RBI on Sunday to beat Texas (4/9).
3B-Jack Flansburg	.261/.404/.333	Has reached base in career-best 15 straight games.
DH-Brylie Ware	.352/.445/.398	Named the Big 12 Newcomer of the Week (3/13).
LF-Steele Walker	.346/.417/.579	First Sooner to hit home run at Texas since 2011.
1B-Austin O'Brien	.329/.398/.549	Missed 12 games from 3/11 to 4/2 with torn left UCL.
C-Renae Martinez	.369/.421/.583	Hitting .583 (14-for-24) over seven-game hit-streak.
2B-Kyle Mendenhall	.261/.356/.426	Hit walk-off home run to beat No. 2 Texas Tech (4/2).
RF-Blake Brewster	.271/.386/.542	Go-ahead three-run home run at Baylor (3/24).
SS-Brandon Zaragoza	.273/.362/.333	Started 24 consecutive games at shortstop.

Last 10 Meetings
Year	Result	Location
2017	Win, 6-2	Norman
2016	Win, 12-3	Norman
	Loss, 0-5	Tulsa
2015	Loss, 1-5	Norman
2014	Loss, 0-2	Norman
	Loss, 0-3	Tulsa
2013	Win, 3-1	Tulsa
	Win, 15-8	Norman
	Win, 9-0	Norman
2012	Win, 6-3	Tulsa

SCOUTING THE GOLDEN EAGLES

Oral Roberts bounced back from its loss in Norman last Tuesday to sweep a series at Fort Wayne (formerly IPFW) in conference play. The Golden Eagles are 22-9 overall, 11-1 in the Summit League and hold a 13-5 record at their home field. Shortstop and leadoff hitter Dylan Snypes is hitting a team-high .344 with 11 doubles and 24 runs. Center fielder Noah Cummings is second at .325 with eight home runs and 32 RBI. As a team, ORU is hitting .280, including six regulars hitting .293 or better, with 35 home runs. Right-handed pitcher Logan Michaels, who was scratched from last Tuesday's start due to illness, will get the ball for the Golden Eagles. He is 3-1 with a 2.45 ERA.

ALL-TIME VS. ORU

Oklahoma leads the all-time series with Oral Roberts, 39-33. The Sooners snapped a four-game win-streak for the Golden Eagles in the series late last season. Prior to that, OU had won five in a row in the all-time series. Oral Roberts leads the all-time series, 15-12, when playing in Tulsa. The Sooners last win over the Golden Eagles in Tulsa was a 3-1 decision in 2013.

Next Home Game
Oklahoma vs. Kansas April 21 \| Norman, Okla. The Sooners are on the road for eight in a row before returning to face Kansas in a Big 12 series. April 22 will be round two of OU's Bark in the Park. TICKETS

LAST TIME THEY MET

Exactly one week ago, Austin O'Brien returned to the OU lineup from a torn left UCL and hit a game-winning grand slam in the seventh inning to break a 2-2 tie and lead Oklahoma to a 6-2 win over Oral Roberts at L. Dale Mitchell Park. The Golden Eagles scored the first two runs of the night with single tallies in the second and fifth. The Sooners cut the lead in half in the sixth, but left the bases loaded. OU tied the game in the seventh ahead of O'Brien's blast on a double from Steele Walker.

STARTING STRONG

Despite having a 12-game win-streak snapped against Wichita State (3/7), the Sooners' 27-8 record is the best since a 28-8 record in 2013. The Sooners' win-streak earlier this season was the best under head coach Pete Hughes and the longest at OU since a 13-game win-streak in 2013.