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<a name="_Hlk490052374"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">BAYLOR ATHLETICS COMMUNICATIONS –
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Baylor BSB Falls in Tight 7-5 Contest at K-State<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Bears erase five-run deficit, but come up short despite Richardson’s three hits<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">For more information contact:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> Max Calderone, 254-265-1639,
</span><a href="mailto:Max_Calderone@Baylor.edu"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Max_Calderone@Baylor.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">
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</span><strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">THE RUNDOWN</span></strong><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white"><br>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">MANHATTAN, Kan. –</span></strong></span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white"> Baylor baseball (24-23, 6-14) erased a five-run deficit, but ultimately
fell to Kansas State (26-23, 7-13) by a final of 7-5 on Saturday afternoon at Tointon Family Stadium in Manhattan, Kan.<br>
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Behind a Jared McKenzie two-run home run and a game-tying three-run blast by Tre Richardson, the Bears knotted the tally at 5-5, but a pair of runs in the seventh allowed the Wildcats to pull away. Richardson notched three hits for the second game in a row
and the BU bullpen combined for 11 strikeouts on the day.<br>
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K-State got to Baylor’s starter Kobe Andrade early, chasing him after just 1.1 innings of work while scoring two in the first and three in the second. However, reliever Grant Golomb came on to throw the next 3.2 scoreless and picked up four punchouts, allowing
Baylor to get back in it.<br>
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McKenzie’s two-run shot came in the top of the fourth, then Richardson tied the ballgame with a three-run round-tripper in the fifth. The duo combined for four of Baylor’s seven hits, as Kyle Nevin, Casen Neumann and Esteban Cardoza-Oquendo accounted for the
other three.<br>
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Mason Marriott struck out the side following a leadoff single in the sixth, but ended up being hit with the loss after giving up the go-ahead two-run single in the seventh. K-State was able to hold on from there, matching the zeros put up by Baylor’s Hambleton
Oliver over the final 1.1 innings with three strikeouts and setting up a rubber match for Sunday’s series finale.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">NOTES</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">• Baylor extended its streak to 26 games in a row with an extra-base hit.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">• The Bears have tallied two or more XBH in 15 of their last 16 games.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">• BU’s pitching staff racked up 11 strikeouts for its 13<sup>th</sup> double-digit outing of the season.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">• Tre Richardson recorded his 16th multi-hit and 10th multi-RBI game of the year with his second-consecutive three-hit game.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">• Richardson also blasted his fourth home run of the season.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">• Jared McKenzie’s eighth home run of the year resulted in his 11<sup>th</sup> multi-RBI game of 2022.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">• Jacob Schoenvogel extended his on-base streak to a team-leading nine games.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">• Kyle Nevin extended his hit streak to five games.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">STAT OF THE GAME</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">3 – Tre Richardson collected his second three-hit effort of the weekend and hit a game-tying three-run home run in the fifth inning.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white">TOP QUOTES</span></strong></span><em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;background:white;font-style:normal"><o:p></o:p></span></em></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><em><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white;font-style:normal">Head coach Steve Rodriguez</span></b></em><i><o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">On today’s ballgame…<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">“It seemed like a tale of two different pitchers. [German] Fajardo did a really good job for Kansas State. He had three pitches that he was mixing in and was filling
up the zone in all different counts. He had our guys kind of fooled a little bit. Then we finally got to him late, which I was really happy about. Our guys continued to battle and kept putting good swings on balls as the game went on. We just couldn’t get
ahead of hitters early. I thought we did a good job holding it down, but later on we just gave up too many free bases. Overall, it was a good game, it was a competitive game, but too many mistakes at the end kind of put us down.”</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">On Tre Richardson’s hot weekend at the plate…<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">“He’s seeing the ball really well and what I like is that he’s hitting the ball hard on a consistent basis. Even the last out of the game he smoked right on a line. That’s all
I can ask, that every time you get in to the box and get a good pitch to hit that you lay a good swing on it and hit it hard. He’s doing that really well and filling up that kill zone, doing a really good job of maximizing every swing he gets out of that spot.
This weekend has been really good for him and good for our team.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white">WHAT'S NEXT</span></strong><br>
<span style="background:white">Baylor (24-23, 6-14) and K-State (26-23, 7-13) return for a rubber match in Sunday’s series finale at 1:00 p.m. CT at Tointon Family Stadium in Manhattan, Kan.<br>
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For the latest news on the Baylor baseball team all season long, follow its official Facebook, Twitter and Instagram accounts: @BaylorBaseball.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#154734">Max Calderone</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"> | Associate Director of Athletics Communications (BSB, FB, EQ)</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Department of Athletics | Baylor University</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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