Sooners Come Back to Clinch Series at Kansas

Saturday, April 23

Lawrence, Kan.

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University of Oklahoma

24-13, 6-5

Kansas

16-22, 2-9

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Kansas

Photo by: Ty Russell

Sooners Come Back to Clinch Series at Kansas

April 23, 2022 | Baseball

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LAWRENCE, Kan. – The Oklahoma baseball team came back from three runs down in the ninth inning to tie the game and defeated Kansas 7-6 in 14 innings Saturday afternoon at Hoglund Ballpark.

The Sooners (24-13, 6-5 Big 12) scored three runs in the ninth inning on four straight walks and a pinch-hit, two-out RBI single by Cade Horton that tied the game. Tanner Tredaway's sacrifice fly in the 14th inning gave OU its first lead of the contest.

Trevin Michael (3-0) finished the game by pitching 6.0 shutout innings with eight strikeouts. Jimmy Crooks threw out three runners stealing in the game, including one to end the ninth and another as part of a strike-out throw-out double play in the 10th inning.

Peyton Graham and Blake Robertson each registered four hits in the game, continuing their recent tear at the plate. Tredaway drove in two runs, Wallace Clark notched three hits and Crooks walked four times.

"Offensively, we hit balls hard early in the game, but nothing fell," Oklahoma head coach Skip Johnson said. "Then in that one inning, there were some little simple things we didn't do and all of a sudden, we gave up four runs. But we just kept persevering and came back in the ninth, which was really huge. Then Trevin and Jimmy took over. The unsung hero in the whole game was Jimmy."

Michael entered to start the ninth inning and went the distance. Singles in the ninth and 10th were erased trying to steal, and he stranded a one-out double in the 11th with a fly out and a strikeout. He stranded walks in the next two frames before retiring the side in order to end the game. Michael's six-inning outing was a season-best for the graduate transfer and Piedmont, Okla., product. The eight strikeouts were his second most this season (had 10 in a five-inning start vs. DBU on March 8).

Trailing 6-3 in the ninth inning, Robertson hit a leadoff single and the Sooners drew four straight walks to pull within 6-5. Horton then tied the game with his base hit into center field.

Oklahoma put a runner on base in every extra stanza before it broke through in the 14th inning. Graham hit a one-out single and Robertson hit a double that would have scored Graham had it not bounced over the right field wall. Tredaway followed with a sacrifice fly that brought in the winning run.

The Sooners tied the game in the third inning on Graham's 10th home run of the season, a blast that measured at 480 feet and landed on Naismith Drive, well beyond the left field wall. KU had scored on an RBI single in the first inning.

Kansas took a 5-1 lead with four runs in the fourth inning. Nolan Metcalf homered, an error scored another run and Cooper McMurray hit a two-run single. After an RBI groundout by Robertson cut it to 5-2, Kansas scored on a solo home run by Tom Lichty in the sixth. Tredaway made it 6-3 in the seventh inning when he singled home Graham.

The Sooners will go for their first series sweep of the season on Sunday. Game time is set for 1 p.m.