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Game Notes: Oklahoma vs. Kansas (Game Three)

April 23, 2017 | Baseball

Game Notes: Oklahoma vs. Kansas (Game Three)

Game Notes: Oklahoma vs. Kansas (Game Three)
Location: Norman, Okla. - L. Dale Mitchell Park
Result: Win, 7-6
Attendance: 1,121
Date: April 23, 2017

Notes

Team:

  • Oklahoma is 7-5 when the opponent scores in the first inning and 11-7 when the opponent scores first, while the Sooners are 9-2 when scoring in the first.
  • The Sooners are 8-0 on Sundays this season.
  • Oklahoma overcame a deficit of four runs or more to win for the second time this season; having last done so at Kennesaw State (3/18).
  • Sooner pitchers combined for 10 strikeouts marking the 21st time this season in double figures.
  • Second win of the season when trailing after seven innings.
  • Oklahoma is 6-2 in one-run games this season.

Jack Flansburg:

  • Recorded his seventh multi-hit game of the season and 17th of his career.

Cade Harris:

  • Started in left field for the first time in his career.
  • First Sooner to walk four times since Austin O'Brien vs. Oklahoma State (5/13/16).

JB Olson:

  • Moved to 3-0 on the season and 4-1 in his career.
  • Has pitched two or more shutout inning of relief 15 times in 47 career relief appearances.

Steele Walker:

  • Drove in four runs to lift team-leading total to 41.
  • Hit his team-leading sixth home run of the season and ninth of his career.
  • Recorded his 17th multi-hit game of the season and 32nd of his career.
  • Posted his 10th multi-RBI game of the season and 17th of his career.
  • First Sooner with four RBI in a game since Austin O'Brien vs. Oral Roberts (4/4).
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