Game Notes: Oklahoma vs. Baylor (Game One)
Game Notes: Oklahoma vs. Baylor (Game One)
Location: Norman, Okla. - L. Dale Mitchell Park
Result: Win, 4-2
Attendance: 669
Date: March 29, 2018
Notes
Team:
- Oklahoma leads the all-time series vs. Baylor, 43-37.
- Sooner pitchers combined for 10 strikeouts; the 17th game in double digits this season.
- OU is 14-4 when scoring first and 11-2 when scoring in the first inning.
- Sooner pitchers have totaled seven starts of six innings of more, four by Irvin, and three already in Big 12 play.
Braidyn Fink:
- Earned the second save of his career; both of which he has entered with the bases loaded and two outs.
Cade Harris:
- Registered his 12th multi-hit game of the season and 27th of his career.
Jake Irvin:
- Had a stretch of 19 innings in a row without allowing an earned run snapped on a two-out double in the sixth.
- Faced the minimum through five and did not give up a hit until the sixth with two gone.
- First Sooner to take a no-hitter into the sixth since Alec Hansen vs. Kansas State (5/8/16), who gave up a leadoff bunt-single.
- Pitched into the eighth for the first time since facing Louisville (6/3/17) in the NCAA Regional.
- Finished a career-high eight innings; the longest outing by a Sooner since Chris Andritsos' 7.2 inning vs. West Virginia (4/22/16) and the first of eight innings or more since Alec Hansen's complete game vs. Texas Tech (3/21/15).
- Moved to 17-5 in his career and 6-1 in Big 12 play.
Kyler Murray:
- Recorded his sixth multi-hit game of the season and seventh of his career.
- Hit his fifth double of the season.