Baseball Heads to Arlington Tuesday Night

April 24 | Arlington, Texas | Clay Gould Ballpark

¹⁸Oklahoma

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Pitching Match-Up
First Pitch	Oklahoma	UT Arlington
Tues. 6:30 p.m.	RHP-Kyle (3-2, 2.79)	RHP-Carlos Tavera (0-0, 5.40)
>>>Last Start	vs. UALR (4/10): W, 8.0 IP, 0 ER, 9 K	vs. DBU (4/17): ND, 4.0 IP, 2 ER, 3 K

Oklahoma Sooners
Record: 27-15 (10-5 Big 12) Coach: Skip Johnson (1st Season) Career Record/Years: 27-15/1 Rank: 18^CBN/22^BA

UT Arlington Mavericks
Record: 20-20 (Sun Belt) Coach: Darin Thomas (12th Season) Career Record/Years: 316-300/12 Rank: NR

On the Air
Stream	UTAMavs.com Josh Sours
Radio	KREF 99.3/1400 TuneIn Radio App Toby Rowland Ross Hubbard

Player to Watch
P-Kyle Tyler Since moving into the midweek starter role, Tyle ris 3-0 with a 1.33 ERA and 28 strikeouts over his last three starts. He took a perfect game into the seventh vs. UALR (4/10) in his last start; pitching a career-high eight innings.

FIRST PITCH

The Oklahoma baseball team plays its final scheduled midweek game of the season with a trip to UT Arlington on Tuesday, April 24. The action gets underway from Clay Gould Ballpark at 6:30 p.m. Voice of the Sooners Toby Rowland will call the game across the Sooner Sports Network and locally on Sportstalk 99.3 FM/1400 AM. Former Sooner Ross Hubbard (color) joins Rowland in the broadcast booth. The game can also be streamed online at Sportstalk1400.com or on the TuneIn mobile app. UTA will provide a premium stream at UTMavs.com with Josh Sours handling the play-by-play duties.

ABOUT THE SOONERS

No. 18 Oklahoma lost its second consecutive Big 12 series to drop to 27-15 overall and 10-5 in the Big 12. The Sooners were able to salvage their series at No. 4 Texas Tech with a 12-5 victory on Sunday. Junior right fielder Steele Walker was 4-for-6 in the win with his 11th home run of the season. He is hitting .373 and slugging .634 with 42 RBI. As a team, Oklahoma has hit 30 home runs, including 18 in the last 13 games. Walker has hit nine long balls during that stretch for the Sooners. Junior third baseman Brylie Ware is second on the team in batting average at .331. He has hit 14 doubles and driven in 31 runs. Senior second baseman Kyle Mendenhall is next at .327. He has knocked in 31 runs and scored 26. On the mound, OU turns to junior right-handed pitcher Kyle Tyler to make his eighth start of the season and fourth in the midweek. He is 3-2 with a 2.79 earned run average and 50 strikeouts in just 38.2 innings of work. Tyler took a perfect game into the seventh against Little Rock (4/10) in his last start. He is 3-0 with a 1.33 ERA and 28 strikeouts in his last three starts since being bumped from the weekend rotation.

THE FORECAST

Projected Starters
OU Lineup	BA/OBP/SLG	Notes
LF-Cade	.302/.459/.491	Top-10 in the NCAA in walks, runs and doubles.
SS-Brandon	.284/.357/.321	Made 90 consecutie starts at shortstop.
RF-Steele	.373/.469/.634	Hit nine home runs in the last 13 games.
CF-Kyler	.279/.387/.500	First career two-HR game at TCU (4/6).
C-Brady	.325/.406/.447	Hit first HR of the season at Texas Tech (4/20).
3B-Brylie	.331/.402/.444	Career-high four hits vs. Oral Roberts (4/11).
2B-Kyle	.327/.370/.432	Collected 40th career multi-hit game at Tech (4/22).
1B-Cade	.242/.376/.367	Hit third HR of the season at Texas Tech (4/21).
DH-Tyler	.213/.281/.296	Three of four multi-hit games are in Big 12 play.

POWER SURGE

Oklahoma went 30 games between multi-home run games having gone yard three times opening day vs. Indiana (2/16) and Kyler Murray's two long balls at TCU (4/6). The Sooners then homered in six consecutive games; marking the first stretch of five or more games since 2010 and the first in the BBCOR (2011-present) era. Steele Walker hit two vs. TCU (4/8) and Little Rock (4/10) as the Sooners matched their season-high with three. Oklahoma added two more vs. Oral Roberts (4/11) and another Walker home run vs. Texas (4/13). The Sooners have hit 18 of their 30 home runs in the last 13 games. Walker has homered nine times over that stretch, while Murray has homered three times.

11-HIT WEEKEND

Steele Walker hit .688 (11-for-16) at Texas Tech (4/20-22). He notched at least three hits in every game; matching his career-high with four twice. Walker is a career .512 (22-for-43) hitter against the Red Raiders. In game two, he homered and doubled in a 4-for-5, two-RBI performance. In the finale, Walker went 4-for-6 against a variety of Tech defensive shifts; twice beating the defensive alignment for singles to center and right and finally with all four infielders on the right side he blasted a two-run home run in the eighth. Walker owned a .706 on-base percentage and slugged 1.188 for an astounding 1.894 OPS.

FREE BASES

Cade Harris drew the 100th base on balls on his career vs. Texas (4/15) to become the 14th player in program history to reach that mark, the first since Casey Bookout (1996-99). He currently ranks tied for seventh all-time at OU with 105. Harris is tied with Brian Shackleford (1995-98), Rich Hills (1992-95), and Kenny King (1971-74).

Next Home Series
Oklahoma vs. Kansas State May 4-6 \| Norman, Okla. The Sooners return to L. Dale Mitchell Park for its final home series of the season against Kansas State. TICKETS

SCOUTING THE MAVERICS

Texas Arlington enters Tuesday's contest with a 20-20 record overall and a 10-8 mark in Sun Belt Conference action. Over the weekend, the Mavericks dropped a road series against Georgia Southern. The offense is led by senior outfielder Omar Salinas, who comes in with a team-best .317 batting average. Josh Vaughn leads the team in home runs with seven and tied for the team lead in RBI with 23. Freshman Carlos Tavera will get the ball for the Mavericks on Tuesday night. The right-hander has a 5.40 ERA in 13.1 innings this season and has held opponents to a .217 batting average.

ALL TIME VS. UTA

Last 10 Meetings
Year	Result	Location
2014	Loss, 5-6	Norman
	Win, 3-2 (10)	Arlington
2013	Loss, 1-6	Arlington
2012	Loss, 3-10	Norman
2011	Win, 4-3	Arlington
2010	Win, 4-3	Norman
2009	Loss, 5-8	Arlington
2008	Win, 6-5	Norman
2006	Win, 4-3	Norman
	Win, 8-0	Norman

Oklahoma leads the overall series 21-11 after splitting their two meetings in 2014. The Sooners won 10 straight against the Mavericks from 1989 to 2001.

LAST TIME THEY MET

The Sooners split a pair of games with the Mavericks in 2014. The first matchup was played at Globe Life Park, home of the Texas Rangers. The Sooners would take the game in a 10-inning affair by the score of 3-2. After the Mavericks managed to tie the game in the bottom of the ninth, Taylor Alspaugh belted the first pitch of the 10th inning over the wall in the right field corner to guide the Sooners to the win. Ralph Garza Jr. earned his first victory of the season and Sheldon Neuse went 4-for-5 and scored a pair of runs. In a home game in Norman later in the season, the Sooners staged a late rally, but fell by a score of 6-5. Robert Tasin gave up just two runs and was the losing pitcher in a 4.1-inning start. Oklahoma registered eight hits; all singles.