STILLWATER, Okla. – The Oklahoma baseball team scored seven straight runs to overcome a 3-0 deficit after two innings, but No. 4 Oklahoma State scored five runs in the final three innings to win 8-7 Saturday night at O'Brate Stadium.
The Bedlam Big 12 conference series, which is tied after 8-7 wins by each team, will come down to a rubber game at 3 p.m. Sunday.
Oklahoma (18-10, 4-4 Big 12) tied the game early with three runs in the third inning and broke the 3-3 tie with four runs in the seventh inning. The Cowboys (22-9, 6-2 Big 12) scored a run in the seventh and tied it with three in the eighth before winning in the ninth inning.
Tanner Tredaway drove in three runs for the Sooners and freshman
Wallace Clark notched his first career three-hit game, going 3 for 4 and scoring two runs.
"I thought the offense battled all night," Oklahoma head coach
Skip Johnson said. "There were a few unforced errors. Some catcher's interference led to some runs. We've had some things happen to us and we give up big innings. We have to somehow figure out just getting back to the target. We played a (heck) of a game. It's a game of imperfection. The bullpen was really good. I mean, coming in with runners on first and second and not giving up runs. Those guys battled their butts off."
The game remained tied after the third inning as OU and OSU battled through three scoreless middle frames. In the fifth,
Carson Atwood entered with runners on first and second and no outs, then got a strikeout, a groundout and a fly out to end the inning.
Carter Campbell came on in the sixth in a similar situation and ended the scoring threat with a strikeout and two fly outs.
Oklahoma took the lead for the first time in the seventh inning when Clark hit a one-out single and moved around to score on an errant pickoff throw with
Jackson Nicklaus at first base. Nicklaus then raced home from third on a grounder to third base by
Peyton Graham to make the score 5-3.
Blake Robertson, who went 2 for 4 and scored twice, singled into right center field, and Graham scored when the pickup was bobbled. Tredaway then made it 7-3 with a sacrifice fly.
OSU cut the lead to 7-4 on a solo home run in the seventh by Nolan McLean, then tied the game in the eighth on an RBI double by Caeden Trenkle and a two-run homer by Roc Riggio. Riggio homered in the first inning and hit a two-run double in the second that gave the Cowboys a 3-0 lead.
The Sooners erased the 3-0 deficit with three runs in the top of the third. Tredaway hit a two-run single and Crooks singled home Robertson to tie the game.
McLean (1-0), OSU's starting third baseman, earned the win on the mound while
Cade Horton (1-1), who was also OU's designated hitter, took the loss.