Baylor Baseball Hammers Oklahoma, 16-8

[Calderone, Max]

BAYLOR ATHLETICS COMMUNICATIONS – March 27, 2022

Baylor BSB Hammers Oklahoma, 16-8
Bears explode for season-high 16 runs, Richardson a double shy of cycle
For more information contact: Max Calderone, 254-265-1639, Max_Calderone at Baylor.edu<mailto:Max_Calderone at Baylor.edu>

THE RUNDOWN
NORMAN, Okla. – Baylor baseball (12-11, 2-4) salvaged its series at Oklahoma (14-8, 2-1) by hammering the Sooners 16-8 on Sunday afternoon at L. Dale Mitchell Park in Norman, Okla.

Tre Richardson led an offensive explosion by going 4-for-4 with five runs scored as part of the Bears’ season-high 16-run performance. He was a double shy of the cycle.

BU jumped out to an early 3-0 lead behind a two-run double by Jared McKenzie, who later scored on a wild pitch. OU countered with two runs in the second, but Baylor responded with runs in each of the third and fourth innings to go ahead 5-2.

The Sooners pulled within a run following a two-run single in the fourth, but Baylor answered with a two-spot of its own in the top of the fifth. Richardson blasted a solo home run, his third of the season, and Harrison Caley delivered one of his three RBIs to make it 7-4.

OU tied it in the bottom half of the fifth behind a two-run homer and RBI single, but the Bears pulled away following a run in the sixth and a five-spot in the seventh. After Richardson tripled, Kyle Nevin drove him in with an RBI groundout, then three Oklahoma errors, two walks, a hit-by-pitch and an RBI knock by Casen Neumann made it 13-7.

Cam Caley gave the Bears 1.1 scoreless innings in relief of Will Rigney before turning it over to Jake Jackson who went the final 3.1. Baylor added three more runs in the top of the ninth off RBI hits from Chase Wehsener and Harrison Caley before OU scratched across the final tally of the game.

NOTES
• Baylor scored a season-high 16 runs in the win at Oklahoma.
• BU outhit its opponent for the 12th time this season and improved to 9-3 in such games.
• The Bears tallied double-digit hits for the ninth time this season.
• Tre Richardson tied a career-high with four hits. It was his eighth multi-hit game of the year and second four-hit performance.
• Richardson also produced his fifth multi-RBI game of the season.
• Richardson was a double shy of the cycle, tallying two singles, a triple and a solo home run in the win.
• Richardson scored five runs, the most by a Baylor player in a single game since Darryn Sheppard scored five times against Stony Brook on Feb. 27, 2016.
• Richardson also extended his on-base streak to 14 games.
• Harrison Caley tallied a career-high three RBIs for his second multi-RBI game of the year.
• H. Caley also posted two hits for the fourth time this year.
• Jared McKenzie recorded his sixth multi-hit game of 2022 with three and extended his on-base streak to 10 games.
• McKenzie also notched his fourth multi-RBI effort of the year with two.
• Kyle Nevin drove in a pair of runs for the seventh time this season, a team high.
• Chase Wehsener collected his fifth multi-RBI game of the year with two.
• Cam Caley collected his first win of the season after throwing 1.1 scoreless innings.
• Jake Jackson recorded his first save of the year by getting the final 10 outs of the ballgame.

STAT OF THE GAME
16 – The Bears scored a season-high 16 runs in the victory.

TOP QUOTES
Head coach Steve Rodriguez
On today’s game…
“It was going to be punch-for-punch with Oklahoma today the way things were going and it was just a matter of how we could stop some of their momentum. I thought Cam Caley came in and did a great job, Will [Rigney] did a good job getting us deep into the game and then Jake [Jackson] came in and just did a phenomenal job. But I thought our offense did such a good job of maintaining great at-bats throughout the day. Tre [Richardson] just missed a cycle. They took what they did yesterday and kept pounding the ball off a really good pitching staff. I’m really proud of what these guys did today.”

On production from the entire lineup…
“Sometimes you forget about the two-out RBIs from the bottom of the order, which was enormous. Harrison Caley came through late in the game with two big RBIs, a two-out hit, those are the types of things that are going to continue to propel us to where we want to go. As long as guys keep taking good at-bats, especially off of really good pitching, those are the things that are going to matter later on.”

Sophomore INF Tre Richardson
On the offensive approach and not thinking about a potential cycle…
“Just been staying with the same approach. Friday and Saturday, I hit a few balls hard that didn’t fall. There were a few that I didn’t hit too hard that I got hits for, and today just doing the same things I have been doing the entire weekend and they all fell for me. I knew I was a double away, but I was just trying to hit the ball as hard as I could. If I hit it in the gap and the situation calls for me to go to third for a triple, that’s what I’m going to do. I don’t really care too much about the heroics of it. I’m just trying to get the job done.”

WHAT'S NEXT
Baylor (12-11) returns home for a Tuesday night tilt on March 29 against UT-Arlington (8-15) at 6:30 p.m. CT at Baylor Ballpark in Waco.

For the latest news on the Baylor baseball team all season long, follow its official Facebook, Twitter and Instagram accounts: @BaylorBaseball.

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Max Calderone | Associate Director of Athletics Communications (BSB, FB, EQ)
Department of Athletics | Baylor University
C: 254-265-1639

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