Baylor Baseball Drops 8-4 Contest at No. 23 TCU

Sat Apr 26 18:21:20 CDT 2025

BAYLOR ATHLETICS COMMUNICATIONS – April 26, 2025

Baylor Baseball Drops 8-4 Contest at No. 23 TCU
Bears unable to overcome pair of three-run innings by Horned Frogs
For more information contact: Max Calderone, 254-265-1639, Max_Calderone at Baylor.edu<mailto:Max_Calderone at Baylor.edu>

FORT WORTH, Texas – Baylor baseball fell 8-4 in game two of its weekend series at No. 23 TCU Saturday afternoon at Lupton Stadium in Fort Worth.

The Bears (26-16, 8-12) struggled early and couldn’t overcome back-to-back three spots from the Frogs’ (31-12, 14-6) offense in the fourth and fifth innings. TCU was led by starter Cademon Parker’s longest outing of the season, as he went six innings and allowed just two hits and one earned run while punching out four.

For BU at the plate, redshirt senior designated hitter Hunter Simmons tallied his seventh multi-RBI performance of the year and freshman infielder Pearson Riebock recorded his ninth game this season with each a hit, a run scored and an RBI. Redshirt sophomore southpaw Caleb Jameson was sharp on the mound in his two-inning relief appearance, fanning three for his second multi-strikeout outing of the year.

THE RUNDOWN
Freshman lefty Carson Bailey made his 11th start of the season and despite some early traffic, induced a ground ball double play thanks to a nifty glove flip from redshirt sophomore infielder Travis Sanders that kept the Frogs off the board in the first.

However, TCU opened the scoring in the bottom of the second, capitalizing on a BU error to advance a runner into scoring position that later scored on a sacrifice fly. Bailey continued to pitch well in high-leverage situations, drawing weak contact in another bases-loaded jam and got the Bears out of the third inning unscathed, stranding five Frogs on base through three innings.

TCU increased its lead in the bottom of the fourth, sending a solo home run over the left-field wall. Later in the inning, the Frogs added two more on a wild pitch and an infield single to lead 4-0 into the fifth.

That’s when BU got on the board, as Riebock crossed the plate on a wild pitch, but TCU responded with another three spot thanks to a pair of RBI singles to swell the lead back up to 7-1.

Jameson came on to start the back half of the sixth and retired four of the first five batters he faced and finished his outing with three strikeouts in two scoreless innings, keeping the Bears within six.

Baylor put up three runs in the top of the eighth thanks to a two-run double by Simmons and a run-scoring flare shot by Riebock to make it 7-4. However, TCU added an insurance run in the home half with an RBI double to move the gap back to four.

BU was unable to complete a comeback effort, as TCU reliever Louis Rodriguez struck out the side in the ninth to seal the 8-4 victory and clinch the series.

HIGHLIGHTS
• Baylor still leads the all-time series against TCU, 151-138.
• Redshirt senior OF Enzo Apodaca extended his hitting streak to nine games.
• Senior INF Tyriq Kemp extended his on-base streak to 18 games.
• Redshirt senior DH Hunter Simmons tallied his 22nd game of the season with both a hit and an RBI.
• Simmons extended his hitting streak to five games and logged his seventh multi-RBI effort of the season.
• Freshman INF Pearson Riebock collected his ninth game of the season with each a hit, a run scored and an RBI.
• Redshirt sophomore LHP Caleb Jameson made his fifth scoreless appearance of the year.
• Redshirt senior RHP Cole Stasio has punched out 13 batters in his last 6.1 innings of relief.

STAT OF THE DAY
5 – Redshirt sophomore LHP Caleb Jameson made his fifth scoreless appearance of the year, fanning three Horned Frogs in two innings of work.

QUOTABLE
Head Coach Mitch Thompson
On looking ahead to the series finale…
“It’s huge. We have 10 games left in conference play, and every one of them is big and every one of them counts. There’s just no ands, ifs or buts about it. It’s the most important game of the year for us, and we need to try and get a win here, salvage the series, then try to see if we can pick it up when we get back home next week.”

WHAT’S NEXT
Baylor (26-26, 8-12) looks to salvage the series with No. 23 TCU (31-12, 14-6) on Sunday, April 27, at Lupton Stadium. First pitch is set for 1 p.m.

To stay up to date on all things Baylor baseball, follow the team on its official Facebook, Twitter and Instagram accounts: @BaylorBaseball.

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Max Calderone | Director of Athletics Communications (Baseball, Football)
Department of Athletics | Baylor University
C: 254-265-1639

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