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OU Tops Air Force in Midweek Opener
March 15, 2022 | Baseball
NORMAN – The Oklahoma baseball team scored nine runs in its final four at bats, including seven in the final two frames, to claim a 10-4 victory over Air Force in the first game of a midweek set Tuesday at L. Dale Mitchell Park.
The Sooners (10-5) and Falcons (6-8) meet again at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Mitchell Park.
Diego Muniz went 3 for 4 with an RBI and two runs scored and freshman Wallace Clark drove in three runs in his first career game. Cade Horton hit a two-run single as part of OU's three-run eighth inning.
Oklahoma tied the game with a run in the fifth inning and took a 2-1 lead in the sixth, then poured on four runs in the seventh inning. After Air Force's Cayden Zimmerman hit a two-run home run in the top of the eighth, the Sooners responded with three more runs to reach the final margin.
"We played offense – when they scored a run, we scored a run, just trying to win innings," Oklahoma head coach Skip Johnson said. "I thought we did a really good job offensively to do that. (Carson) Atwood in the middle of the game was really good. He threw some quality pitches and got a big double play that was hit at Wallace pretty hard. It was really big in that inning to take the momentum. That was the momentum change for us, because when we scored a run that inning, and kept just playing offense."
Carson Atwood (2-1) pitched 3.0 no-hit innings in relief of starter Braden Carmichael, who went four frames. Atwood struck out three and walked one. In the fifth inning, he faced the minimum when Clark turned a 5-4-3 double play to erase an error.
OU tied the game 2-all in the bottom of the fifth on an RBI single by Muniz, then took the lead in the sixth on the first of Clark's two sacrifice squeeze bunts. The Tulsa, Okla., product drove in all three runs without a hit, laying two sac bunts and bringing home another on a groundout.
The Sooners extended their lead to 7-2 in the seventh inning. Muniz singled and scored on a balk and two wild pitches, then OU loaded the bases with two walks and a base hit. Clark brought home Horton with a groundout, Jackson Nicklaus hit a sacrifice fly and Tanner Tredaway singled in Sebastian Orduno.
Jimmy Crooks led off the eighth inning with a single and Muniz doubled, before Horton knocked a two-run base hit to right field. Horton later scored on Clark's second squeeze bunt of the game.
Air Force scored a run in the top of the first inning on a sacrifice fly that was dropped in the outfield and took a 2-1 lead in the fourth inning on an RBI double by Trayden Tamiya. The Sooners tied it in the bottom of the first on an RBI groundout by Blake Robertson. Nicklaus led off the inning with a walk, stole second and scored two groundouts later.
The Sooners (10-5) and Falcons (6-8) meet again at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Mitchell Park.
Diego Muniz went 3 for 4 with an RBI and two runs scored and freshman Wallace Clark drove in three runs in his first career game. Cade Horton hit a two-run single as part of OU's three-run eighth inning.
Oklahoma tied the game with a run in the fifth inning and took a 2-1 lead in the sixth, then poured on four runs in the seventh inning. After Air Force's Cayden Zimmerman hit a two-run home run in the top of the eighth, the Sooners responded with three more runs to reach the final margin.
"We played offense – when they scored a run, we scored a run, just trying to win innings," Oklahoma head coach Skip Johnson said. "I thought we did a really good job offensively to do that. (Carson) Atwood in the middle of the game was really good. He threw some quality pitches and got a big double play that was hit at Wallace pretty hard. It was really big in that inning to take the momentum. That was the momentum change for us, because when we scored a run that inning, and kept just playing offense."
Carson Atwood (2-1) pitched 3.0 no-hit innings in relief of starter Braden Carmichael, who went four frames. Atwood struck out three and walked one. In the fifth inning, he faced the minimum when Clark turned a 5-4-3 double play to erase an error.
OU tied the game 2-all in the bottom of the fifth on an RBI single by Muniz, then took the lead in the sixth on the first of Clark's two sacrifice squeeze bunts. The Tulsa, Okla., product drove in all three runs without a hit, laying two sac bunts and bringing home another on a groundout.
The Sooners extended their lead to 7-2 in the seventh inning. Muniz singled and scored on a balk and two wild pitches, then OU loaded the bases with two walks and a base hit. Clark brought home Horton with a groundout, Jackson Nicklaus hit a sacrifice fly and Tanner Tredaway singled in Sebastian Orduno.
Jimmy Crooks led off the eighth inning with a single and Muniz doubled, before Horton knocked a two-run base hit to right field. Horton later scored on Clark's second squeeze bunt of the game.
Air Force scored a run in the top of the first inning on a sacrifice fly that was dropped in the outfield and took a 2-1 lead in the fourth inning on an RBI double by Trayden Tamiya. The Sooners tied it in the bottom of the first on an RBI groundout by Blake Robertson. Nicklaus led off the inning with a walk, stole second and scored two groundouts later.
Team Stats
Pitching:
W: Atwood, Carson (2-1)
L: BENGE,DUKE (0-2)
Batting:
2B: TAMIYA,TRAYDEN 1
3B: COVIN,BLAKE 1
HR: ZIMMERMAN,CAYDEN 1
RBI: COVIN,BLAKE 1 ; GREIVING,JAKE 1 ; ZIMMERMAN,CAYDEN 2
SF: GREIVING,JAKE 1
Base Running:
RUNS: COVIN,BLAKE 1 ; JOE,AERIK 1 ; ZIMMERMAN,CAYDEN 1 ; TAMIYA,TRAYDEN 1
SB: COVIN,BLAKE 1 ; KULASINGAM,SAM 1 ; THOMASON,JAY 1
Batting:
2B: Muniz, Diego 1
RBI: Nicklaus, Jackson 1 ; Tredaway, Tanner 1 ; Robertson, Blake 1 ; Muniz, Diego 1 ; Horton, Cade 2 ; Clark, Wallace 3
SH: Clark, Wallace 2
SF: Nicklaus, Jackson 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Nicklaus, Jackson 1 ; Tredaway, Tanner 1 ; Crooks, Jimmy 1 ; Muniz, Diego 2 ; Horton, Cade 2 ; Squires, Brett 1 ; Brown, Trent 1 ; Orduno, Sebastian 1
SB: Nicklaus, Jackson 1 ; Tredaway, Tanner 2 ; Squires, Brett 1 ; Brown, Trent 1
HBP: Crooks, Jimmy 1
PO: Horton, Cade 1
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