Bedlam Baseball in Tulsa Tuesday Night

Oklahoma

⁶ Oklahoma State

Tuesday, March 29 / Tulsa, Okla. / ONEOK Field

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Matchups
Game Time	OU Projected Starter	OSU Projected Starter
Tuesday, 7 p.m.	LHP Braden Carmichael	LHP Mitchell Stone

First Pitch

• Oklahoma and Oklahoma State meet for the first Bedlam baseball showdown of the 2022 season in a non-conference contest on Tuesday night at ONEOK Field in Tulsa, Okla. First pitch is scheduled for 7 p.m. Oklahoma is the home team for this game.
• Limited tickets remain available for purchase via TulsaDrillers.com.
• This is the first of four scheduled meetings between OU and OSU over the next two weeks. The Sooners and Cowboys are slated to meet in a Big 12 conference series April 8-10 in Stillwater, Okla.

Watch/Listen/Follow

• The game will be broadcast on the Sooner Sports Radio Network (locally on Sportstalk 99.3 FM/1400 AM KREF, Sportstalk1400.com and the Varsity Network app anywhere) with Toby Rowland and George Frazier calling the action.
• A live video stream accompanied by the radio broadcast will be available via SoonerSports.tv.
• Live stats will be available at OUStats.com.

Leading Off

• Oklahoma plays four games against its biggest rivals this week, beginning with Tuesday's non-conference Bedlam matchup against Oklahoma State in Tulsa. The Sooners then travel to Arlington, Texas, this weekend for the Red River Rivalry against Texas at Globe Life Field. Game times for the Big 12 conference series are 6:30 p.m. Friday and noon on Saturday and Sunday.
• During its recent 12-game homestand (9-3 record), Oklahoma turned up the offense. The Sooners batted .336 with 40 extra base hits (average of 3.3 per game), 26 doubles, 12 home runs, 67 walks (5.6 per game) and 29 stolen bases. OU totaled 100 runs (8.3 per game) and registered 133 hits (11.1 per game), scoring at least seven runs in 10 of the 12 games.
• OSU is hitting .267 as a team and averaging 6.5 runs and 3.0 extra base hits per game (44 doubles, 26 home runs). The pitching staff has compiled a 3.32 ERA, 270 strikeouts to 79 walks and 169 hits in 217.0 innings and has allowed a .267 opponent batting average.
• Oklahoma is in its fifth season under the direction of head coach Skip Johnson (including the 2020 season that was shortened due to the COVID-19 pandemic). Johnson, who spent the 2017 season on staff as an assistant coach, has led the Sooners to a 126-88 record since taking over as head coach prior to the 2018 season.

Series History

• This will be the 308th meeting between Oklahoma and Oklahoma State in baseball. OSU leads the series 163-144. The teams played each other six times last year; the Sooners won two of three games during the Big 12 conference series, but the Cowboys won both midweek games and the first-round matchup in the Big 12 Championship
• This will be the 34th contest between OU and OSU played in Tulsa (all since 1991), and the 15th meeting at ONEOK Field since the ballpark opened in 2010.
• OSU has won the last four matchups played in Tulsa (two in 2018, one in '19, one in '21). Oklahoma's last win over Oklahoma State in Tulsa came in 2016 (OU won the second of two meetings at ONEOK Field).

#LaunchPad

• The #LaunchPad is back for 2022. For the second straight year, pledged donations to a customized dollar amount for every homer that OU baseball hits in 2022 will go towards the the stadium renovation project. For more information, visit TheSoonerClub.com/LaunchPad.
• All donations from the Pledge Per Home Run Campaign will be treated as charitable donations supporting either the OU Softball Stadium Project or the OU Baseball Stadium Renovation Project and are tax-deductible.

Recapping the Baylor Series

• Oklahoma opened its Big 12 conference slate by winning two of three games against Baylor last weekend at L. Dale Mitchell Park. The Sooners won by scores of 5-3 and 9-5 before dropping the finale 16-8.
• The Sooners called on a little "Sooner Magic" in the series-clinching victory on Saturday. Peyton Graham hit a walk-off grand slam in the bottom of the ninth inning, and that was after Tanner Tredaway hit a game-tying grand slam in the eighth inning. The home runs were the first hit of the game for either player, and Graham's first hit of the series to that point.
• The "Graham slam" is believed to be the first walk-off grand slam for Oklahoma in at least 25 years, and potentially longer. It was OU's first walk-of home run since Renae Martinez beat TCU in 2017.
"That was probably the coolest thing I've ever experienced here at OU," Graham said after the game.
• Jake Bennett continued his ace pitching in the series opener on Friday night. He turned in his longest career outing (7.1 innings) and struck out seven batters. Amazingly, the three runs scored were his most allowed in six starts this season. Trevin Michael earned his fourth save of the season, getting the last five outs on Friday.
• Tredaway led OU with a .455 (5 for 11) batting average and seven RBIs during the Baylor series. Diego Muniz, who paces the Sooners with an overall .358 batting average, hit .400 (4 for 10) and drove in three runs in the series.
• Freshman Max McGwire went 3 for 8 (.375) at the plate and hit his first career home run during Friday's win.
• Oklahoma hit six home runs during the series, and they were hit in pairs. Trent Brown hit his second homer of the year on Friday night, while Jimmy Crooks hit his first of the year on Sunday. Graham homered again on Sunday, with a blast reminiscent of Saturday's game-winner. He leads the team with five homers on the season.

Noting the Recent Homestand

• Oklahoma went 9-3 during its recent 12-game homestand. OU swept a three-game series against UTSA March 12-13, then swept a midweek set against Air Force, dropped two of three games against New Orleans, and won two of three games over Baylor last weekend.
• During the first 10 games of the season, Oklahoma scored a total of 35 runs (average of 3.5 per game). The Sooners have scored 100 runs during the last 12 games (8.3 per game).
• Jimmy Crooks paced the Sooners with a .400 batting average, a .538 OBP and four doubles (tied), and is tied for second during the stretch with 16 hits and is third with 12 runs scored. Nine Sooners batted better than .300 over the last 12 games.
• OU was 29 for 36 on stolen base attempts in the last 12 games (average of 2.4 steals per game). Twelve different players registered at least one steal during that stretch, led by Tanner Tredaway's six steals.
• OU scored at least seven runs in eight straight games between March 8-19. The Sooners had a similar eight-game scoring run between March 9-21 of last season, but this was only the third occurrence in the last 11 years. Oklahoma opened the 2011 season by scoring at least seven runs in nine consecutive games.

Base Snatchers

• The Sooners have registered 51 stolen bases in 64 attempts through 22 games this season. OU surpassed its total from all of last year (46 steals) in the 18th game of this season. Kendall Pettis, who led OU with seven steals in 2021, already has nine stolen bases. Tanner Tredaway (six steals last year) leads the team with 10, while Peyton Graham and Blake Robertson each have six steals so far this season. Catcher Jimmy Crooks has five stolen bases.
• OU's most steals over the last 12 seasons was 98, in 2010. The Sooners registered 56 steals in 2016, 62 in 2013 and 79 steals in 2011.
• Oklahoma finished opening weekend with six stolen bases over three games, then went off for 11 steals against Wichita State on Feb. 22. Three players — Graham, Pettis and Tredaway — each had three stolen bases in the game. In five games last week vs. Air Force and New Orleans, the Sooners were 15 of 16 in stolen bases.
• Prior to Feb. 22, no single Sooner had stolen three bases in a game since Erik Ross against Hartford in 2012. Oklahoma (3-1) finished the Wichita State game one steal shy of the school record of 12, set in 1937 against East Central (Okla.) University.