Sooner Baseball in Dallas Tuesday Night

April 18 | 6:30 P.M. | Dallas | Horner Ballpark

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Midweek Pitching Match-Up
First Pitch	Oklahoma	Dallas Baptist
Tuesday 6:30 pm	RHP-Austin Hansen (3-1, 3.03)	RHP-Trevor Conn (1-2, 6.12)
>>>Last Start	at Oral Roberts (4/11): L, 3.0 IP, 3 H, 3 R, 3 K	vs. Grambling (3/18): ND, 3.2 IP, 5 H, 3 R, 1 K

Oklahoma Sooners
Record: 27-12 (5-4 Big 12) Coach: Pete Hughes (4th Season) Career Record/Years: 644-480-3/21 Rank: 19^BA/22^USA

Dallas Baptist Patriots
Record: 20-15 (3-3 MVC) Coach: Dan Heefner (13th Season) Career Record/Years: 366-202/13 Rank: NR

On the Air
Stream	DBUPatriots.com Brendan Smith Reagan Ratcliff
Radio	KREF 1400 AM TuneIn Radio App Toby Rowland Ross Hubbard

Player to Watch
OF-Steele Walker, So. Walker is hitting .360 over the last 15 games; all against top-100 RPI opponents. Last season, he posted the first three-hit game of his career in a 12-2 win over DBU.

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FIRST PITCH

The No. 19 University of Oklahoma baseball team wraps up en eight-game road swing, all against top-100 RPI opponents, on Tuesday, April 18 at Dallas Baptist. The Sooners meet the Patriots at Horner Ballpark for a 6:30 p.m. first pitch. Tuesday'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 alongside former Sooner Ross Hubbard (color commentary). Video of the game will be streamed at DBUPatriots.com/watch.

ABOUT THE SOONERS

Oklahoma, playing without key contributors due to injury over the last few games, has lost six of seven and enters the week at 27-12 overall and 7-9 on the road. Sophomore outfielder Steele Walker is the Sooners' top hitter at .352 with a team-leading .566 slugging percentage on 10 doubles, three triples and five home runs. Walker also leads the team in runs with 35 and RBI at 33. Senior catcher Renae Martinez is second of four OU starters hitting .300 or better this season. He is hitting .339 and slugging .530 with seven doubles and five home runs. Freshman catcher Brady Lindsly has seen an increase in playing time over the last week. His average is up to .308 (16-for-52) as he added a 2-for-4, two-RBI game in Oklahoma's series finale at Michigan (4/15). For the third Tuesday in a row, the Sooners looks to sophomore right-handed pitcher Austin Hansen on the mound. He took his first career loss at Oral Roberts (4/11) a week ago and enters Tuesday night's contest at 3-1 overall with a 3.03 earned run average. Hansen has made seven starts and one relief appearance this season with 24 strikeouts in 29.2 innings, while opponents are hitting just .167 off of him. Redshirt-junior lefty Austin Kerns has appeared in a team-high 21 games in relief with a 2-2 record and 2.82 ERA in 22.2 innings with 17 strikeouts.

THE FORECAST

Projected Starters
OU Lineup	BA/OBP/SLG	Notes
CF-Ben Hollas	.276/.421/.381	Game-winning RBI on in finale to beat Texas (4/9).
2B-Jack Flansburg	.242/.404/.308	10th in the country with 32 base on balls.
C-Renae Martinez	.339/.398/.530	Seven-game hit-streak snapped at Oral Roberts (4/11).
LF-Steele Walker	.352/.424/.566	First Sooner to hit home run at Texas since 2011.
1B-Austin O'Brien	.309/.376/.526	Missed 12 games from 3/11 to 4/2 with torn left UCL.
DH-Brady Lindsly	.308/.429/.404	14 hits in 13 starts this season.
3B-Brylie Ware	.328/.415/.369	Second on the team with 12 multi-hit games.
RF-Blake Brewster	.250/.360/.500	Four multi-RBI games tied for fourth most on the team.
SS-Brandon Zaragoza	.252/.340/.276	Started 28 consecutive games at shortstop.

Last 10 Meetings
Year	Result	Location
2016	Win, 12-2	Norman
2015	Loss, 5-7	Norman
2014	Loss, 1-9	Norman
2013	Loss, 4-6	Norman
	Loss, 0-2	Dallas
2012	Loss, 2-8	Norman
	Loss, 6-7	Dallas
2011	Loss, 2-3 (10)	Fort Worth
	Loss, 2-3	Norman
2010	Win, 14-0	Norman

SCOUTING THE PATRIOTS

Dallas Baptist is 20-15 overall and 3-3 in the Missouri Valley Conference under 10th-year head coach Dan Heefner after taking two of three games from Central Arkansas over the weekend. The Patriots are 13-5 in their home ballpark this season. The offense is led by infielder Devlin Granberg, who is hitting a team-high .386 and holds a slugging percentage of .535. Catcher Matt Duce is second at .326 with 43 hits, 13 doubles, and 31 RBI. Outfielder Jameson Hannah is hitting .318 and leading the team with 36 runs scored and 48 hits.

ALL-TIME VS. DBU

The Sooners lead the all-time series with the Patriots, 22-10. Prior to last season, Dallas Baptist had won eight in a row dating back to 2011, including a 10-inning, 3-2 win at TCU in the 2011 NCAA Fort Worth Regional. Six of the eight-consecutive losses were by two runs or less. Oklahoma won the first 14 games of the series, which started with a 12-3 decision in 1978. Since 2004, DBU is ahead in the series, 10-8.

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

Oklahoma beat the Patriots 12-2 in Norman last season on April 5, 2016. The Sooners snapped an eight-game losing streak in the series against DBU. Sheldon Neuse stretched his reached base streak to 13 games with a first inning-single. In the game, Neuse had two runs scored and two hits. Steele Walker posted his first three-hit game of the year and added two runs scored. Jake Irvin earned his first career win on the mound after striking out five in five innings.

A YEAR OLDER, STRONGER

At the 39-game mark of the 2016 season, Oklahoma sat at 19-19-1 overall and 5-8 in the Big 12 following a series-opening, 1-0, extra-inning win over West Virginia (4/22/16) in Norman. The Sooners' current 27-12 record marks an eight-game improvement in wins from this same point one year ago. In 2016, Oklahoma was 3-14-1 against Top-100 RPI teams through 39 games vs. 8-11 this season; good enough for an 85-spot improvement in the RPI from 106 to 21..