Bedlam Baseball Heads to Tulsa on Tuesday

Oklahoma

²¹Oklahoma State

Tuesday, May 11 / Tulsa, Okla. / ONEOK Field

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Matchups
Game Time	OU Projected Starter	OSU Projected Starter
Tuesday, 7 p.m.	TBA	TBA

First Pitch:
•   Oklahoma (24-22) and Oklahoma State (27-15-1) meet for a non-conference Bedlam matchup Tuesday at ONEOK Field in Tulsa, Okla. Game time is set for 7 p.m. on ESPN2. Oklahoma will be the home team for this contest.
•   Tuesday's game will be the fifth meeting this season between Oklahoma and Oklahoma State. The in-state rivals have each won two games (OU won on April 30 and May 1; OSU won on March 30 and May 2). The last season in which the Sooners and Cowboys played five regular season games was 2014 (Oklahoma won two of them).
•   This will be Oklahoma's 11th contest this season at a professional ballpark. The Sooners played at Globe Life Field (Feb. 23-24), in the Round Rock Classic at Dell Diamond (Feb. 26-28), in the Frisco Classic Dr. Pepper Ballpark in Frisco, Texas (March 4-7) and faced Texas Tech at HODGETOWN in Amarillo, Texas on May 4.

Watch/Listen/Follow:
•   The game will be televised on ESPN2 with Chris Cotter and Mike Rooney calling the action.
•   The radio broadcast will be carried on the Sooner Sports Radio Network (locally on SportsTalk 99.3 FM/1400 AM KREF and via the TuneIn app anywhere) with Toby Rowland and George Frazier on the call.
• Live stats will be available at OUStats.com.

Leading Off:
•   Braden Carmichael was named the Big 12 Newcomer of the Week after pitching 7.0 no-hit innings in the series finale at West Virginia on Saturday night. He struck out a season-high 10 batters and walked four, and retired 13 straight from the third through seventh innings.
•   Oklahoma's 53 home runs this season are the most by a Sooners squad since the 2010 team hit 105 homers. OU has totaled 50 home runs only one other time since 2010 (51 in 2017).
•   Oklahoma ranks fifth nationally in hits (467), 12th in walks (238), 14th in doubles (94), 17th in runs (334), 26th in scoring (7.3 runs per game), 28th in strikeouts per nine innings (10.3), 33rd in batting average (.292) and doubles per game (2.12), 34th in OBP (.393), 36th in home runs (53) and 38th in slugging (.463).
•   OU ranks second in the Big 12 in hits, runs, doubled per game and sacrifice flies (22), and third in batting average, doubled, strikeouts per nine innings and strikeout-to-walk ratio (2.42).
•   Thirty-four percent of Oklahoma's hits (157 of 467) have gone for extra bases. The Sooners have totaled 94 doubles, 10 triples and 53 home runs in 46 games, an average of 3.4 extra base hits per contest.

Series History:
•   This will be the 307th meeting between Oklahoma and Oklahoma State in baseball. OSU leads the series 161-144.
•   Oklahoma claimed the Big 12 conference Bedlam series over Oklahoma State with 16-2 and 5-3 wins on Friday (April 30) and Saturday (May 1). It was OU's first conference series win over OSU since 2016, and the first time it had won the initial two games of the conference series since 2009.
•   The Cowboys won 5-4 in Stillwater on March 30.
•   OU last beat OSU in Tulsa during the 2016 season, a 3-1 victory in the series finale (three games played at ONEOK Field between the schools since 2016).

About the Sooners:
•   Oklahoma won two of three games at West Virginia last weekend. The Sooners rebounded from a 7-1 defeat Friday night to win 8-7 (11 innings) and 9-1 in a doubleheader on Saturday to clinch their first true road series win of the season (OU won two of three at the Round Rock Classic in February).
•   Oklahoma has outscored opponents in the last two-thirds of games (innings four through nine) this season by a total of 216 to 152. In the first three innings of games, OU has been outscored by opponents 120 to 115 (allowed 2.6 runs in first three innings of games vs. 3.3 across last six innings).
•   OU has scored at least seven runs in 23 games this season (averaging 7.3 runs per game overall), and notched double-digit hits in 23 games.
•   The Sooners are 5-9 in 14 games against ranked opponents so far this season.
•   All of Oklahoma's remaining scheduled games are against Big 12 opponents, including Tuesday's non-conference midweek contest Oklahoma State (OU's last midweek game of the season).
•   OU is in its fourth season under the direction of head coach Skip Johnson (third full year; the 2019 season ended after 18 games due to the COVID-19 pandemic). Johnson has led the Sooners to a 109-74 record and an NCAA postseason appearance in 2018.

Key Player Trends:
•   Tyler Hardman continues to lead the nation in hits (74). He ranks seventh in total bases (121), 15th in hits per game (1.61), 25th in batting average (.394), 45th in OBP (.484), 64th in slugging (.644), 70th in runs (43) and 74th in RBIs (43).
•   Hardman has notched multiple hits in 24 of OU's 46 games this season and has at least one hit in 40 contests (a hit in all but six games).
•   Jace Bohrofen batted .545 last week (played in three of the four games and started two), going 6 for 11 at the plate with a double, a triple and three runs scored. He went 3 for 5 with a triple and two runs in Tuesday's contest against Texas Tech in Amarillo, and 2 for 2 with a double and a run in the first game of the doubleheader at West Virginia on Saturday.
•   Conor McKenna batted .467 (7 for 15) in four games last week, including a .400 average (4 for 10) in the series at West Virginia. He notched five RBIs, two home runs, a double, three walks and four runs scored on the week. He homered on Tuesday against Tech and in game one on Saturday. He drove in three runs and scored three runs at WVU.
•   Justin Mitchell went 3 for 9 with three walks in the West Virginia series, including a 2 for 3 performance with two RBIs in game one on Saturday. He has hit in four of his last five contests and is batting .333 (5 for 15) in his last five games.
•   Jimmy Crooks hit the game-winning home run in the top of the 11th inning in the first game of Saturday's doubleheader as Oklahoma evened the series at WVU. The two-run opposite-field blast was his ninth homer of the season, and his first hit of the series.
•   Peyton Graham homered in both games of the doubleheader on Saturday, and one was inside the park. He hit the second pitch of the day over the left field wall, then banged an inside-the-park homer off the center field wall. Graham, Crooks and McKenna each have hit nine home runs this season.
•   For the second straight week Jason Ruffcorn turned in a career-long outing. On Saturday, he entered to begin the second inning and pitched 7.1 frames, striking out seven batters. Last week, he punched out 10 batters over 6.2 relief innings to earn the victory, and was named Big 12 Pitcher of the Week (May 3).
•   McKenna leads the Sooners with 14 multiple RBI games while Hardman has 12 and Crooks has 10 multiple RBI contests.