OU Plays Host to Kansas at Mitchell Park

First Pitch

• Oklahoma (22-19, 7-8 Big 12) returns home to L. Dale Mitchell Park to face Kansas (20-21, 5-10 Big 12) in a Big 12 conference series this weekend. Game times are set for 12:30 p.m. Friday, 3 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday.
• Oklahoma is celebrating its 125th anniversary season in 2023. The program was established in 1898, and OU has competed in 118 seasons since (including 2023).

Tickets/Promotions

• Tickets are available via SoonerSports.com. Mini plans and flex packages are available for all remaining home games.
• The L. Dale Mitchell Park ticket office and entrance gates will open two hours prior to the scheduled game time. The ticket office and will call windows are located behind home plate, along W. Imhoff Rd.
• Fans are invited to take advantage of pregame social hours each day, from gates open until first pitch. On Friday, $2 12-oz. beers will be available from open gates (10:30 a.m.) through the seventh inning. Social hour on Saturday and Sunday (1-3 p.m. Saturday and 12-2 p.m. Sunday) features $4 16-oz. beers.
• Saturday — and all weekend long — the Sooners are celebrating Alumni Weekend and the program's 125th anniversary season. An OU baseball alumni pregame tailgate will be held Saturday and a former player will throw the ceremonial first pitch. The first 250 fans can receive a 1994 College World Series pennant.
• Saturday is also Country Day, featuring a mechanical bull in the grass area behind home plate and an OU baseball shot glass giveaway to the first 250 fans.
• Sunday is OU's annual Go Mitch Go game, with a pregame recognition, as well as Sunday Runday. For this, and every Sunday OU home contest, kids 12 and under can run the bases on the field following the game. The first 250 fans can receive a 1973 CWS pennant.

Watch/Listen/Follow

• The games will be televised via SoonerVision on ESPN+, and the radio broadcast of all three games will be carried on the Sooner Radio Network (locally on Sportstalk 99.3 FM/1400 AM KREF, Sportstalk1400.com and the Varsity Network app anywhere). Toby Rowland and George Frazier have the call for all three contests in a TV/radio simulcast.
• Live stats will be available via OUStats.com.

Series History

• Oklahoma leads the overall series against Kansas 145-78-1, and holds a 65-29 advantage in Norman.
• The Sooners have won 10 of the last 11 against the Jayhawks, including all three meetings in 2019, two of three in 2021 in Norman and all three games in Lawrence last season.
• OU has won five of the last six meetings played in Norman, over the 2019 and '21 seasons, and four straight contests overall. KU's only win in Norman in its last two visits was an 8-7 win in 10 innings during the 2021 season.

Leading Off

• Oklahoma ranks 10th nationally and third in the Big 12 with its 248 walks, and ranks 16th nationally and fourth in the Big 12 with its 88 stolen bases. OU batters have also been hit by a pitch 52 times, totaling 300 free passes (an average of 7.3 free passes per game).
• The Sooners also rank fifth nationally with their 30 sacrifice flies (second in the Big 12 to 32 by Texas Tech) and 23rd nationally with 14 triples (second in Big 12; league leader Texas Tech has 18 triples).
• Junior right fielder Bryce Madron has registered 44 walks in his 41 games, a figure that leads the Big 12 and ranks third nationally. He also ranks 10th nationally and second in the Big 12 by averaging 1.1 walks per contest. Freshman catcher Easton Carmichael ranks second in the Big 12, tied for 26th nationally and tied for second among catchers with his four triples. Junior infielder Anthony Mackenzie ranks 38th nationally and third in the Big 12 with his 20 stolen bases (in 23 attempts). Junior Carter Campbell is fifth nationally and first in the Big 12 with his 25 pitching appearances (national leaders have made 27 appearances). Graduate pitcher Braxton Douthit leads the Big 12 (ranks 30th nationally) by allowing 5.98 hits per nine innings.
• Mackenzie has reached base in 32 straight contests; Madron's 30-game streak ended on Saturday at Texas. Junior infielder Dakota Harris leads the team with 13 multiple-hit games. Mackenzie and Carmichael each have 12 multi-hit game, Madron and freshman Rocco Garza-Gongora each have 11, and sophomore John Spikerman has 10. Carmichael leads the team with 10 multiple-RBI games while Harris has nine, and Mackenzie and sophomore second baseman Jackson Nicklaus each have eight.
• Carmichael, Madron and Nicklaus lead the team with 34 RBIs apiece while Harris and Mackenzie follow with 32 and 31, respectively. Mackenzie has notched a team-high 39 runs scored, Madron has scored 37 runs and Pettis has 33 runs scored.
• Dakota Harris, who was named on the Brooks Wallace Award Watch List in mid-April, leads Oklahoma with a .369 batting average (41 for 111), and has eight doubles and five home runs in 24 games, despite missing 14 games with an injury. In four games last week at Oklahoma State and Texas, he went 8 for 16 (.500) with four RBIs, a home run and two doubles (most of the damage was done with a three-run homer and both doubles at OSU).
• Junior Carter Campbell is the reigning Big 12 Pitcher of the Week. He has pitched 13.0 innings over his last six appearances since April 11, and is 2-0 with one save and a 0.69 ERA in that span. He has notched seven strikeouts and allowed one run on six hits and one walk. He gave up one run on five hits and struck out four batters in three outings last week at Oklahoma State and Texas, earning a win and a save in two scoreless appearances at Texas last weekend.
• Sophomore Aaron Weber was named on the NCBWA Stopper of the Year Midseason Watch List this week. He has recorded seven saves over 15 appearances and struck out 18 batters in 13.2 innings.
• In five of his last seven starts, dating back to March 11 at Houston, graduate senior Braxton Douthit has allowed zero or one run. In those five starts, he is 3-0 with a 0.30 ERA (two runs allowed, one earned) across 30.0 innings. In his last seven starts overall, Douthit is 3-2 with a 3.63 ERA over 39.2 innings.
• Fifth-year senior Braden Carmichael has pitched at leads 5.0 innings over his last four appearances (three starts) and, in that time, is 3-0 with a 2.22 ERA over 24.1 innings.
• In the last 21 games, Bryce Madron has raised his batting average 99 points from .182 to .281 while going 29 for 80 at the plate (.363) with six home runs, five doubles, 26 RBIs, 20 runs scored and 12 walks. He drew a ton of walks by comparison in the first 20 games of the season (32 walks, 12 hits, five extra base hits). He leads the team with 17 extra base hits (eight doubles, one triple, eight homers) and is second on the squad with 37 runs scored.
• Fourth-year junior outfielder Kendall Pettis is batting .312 (34 for 109) with 33 runs scored, five doubles, two triples, one home run, 24 walks and 12 stolen bases. He has hit .351 (26 for 74) with 20 runs, four doubles, two triples, a home run and eight steals in his last 20 games (19 starts) since March 19.
• In his last nine games, John Spikerman is batting .344 (11 for 32) with five RBIs, six runs scored and six walks. Seven of his 19 stolen bases this season (7 for 7) have come in the last nine contests.
• Jackson Nicklaus (six doubles, three triples, six homers) is second on the team with 15 extra base hits, and Spikerman has 13 extra base hits (11 doubles, one triple, one homer), as does Harris (eight doubles, five homers). Anthony Mackenzie leads the Sooners with 39 runs scored, while Madron, Nicklaus and Easton Carmichael all pace OU with 34 RBIs.