Oklahoma baseball’s struggles continued in a major way on Saturday getting hammered by TCU 17-6 at L. Dale Mitchell park for their sixth loss in the last seven games.
Jake Bennett (3-2), who has arguably been the Sooners most reliable starting pitcher, had massive problems in this one allowing an obscene eight runs and was unable to get through the second inning. He would go on to get handed the loss.
The Oklahoma bullpen didn’t fare much better, as Ben Abram, Jaret Godman, Dalton Fowler and Javier Ramos would allow nine more runs between the four of them over the rest of the game. The Horned Frogs held a 17-1 lead through seven and a half innings.
The Sooners wouldn’t go down without battling despite the score, managing five runs in the bottom of the eighth and ninth to bring the final to 17-6. First baseman Tyler Hardman, left fielder Diego Muniz and center fielder Tanner Tredaway all picked up RBI hits and right fielder Brett Squires picked up his first home run of the season.
There really isn’t much to analyze with this game from an Oklahoma standpoint, the game was inarguably a disaster. After dropping the first game of the series, finding a way to bounce back and set up a rubber match on Sunday felt relatively important. This couldn’t have been all that much further from that as the game was essentially over before the Sooners came to the dish.
Now at 13-13 and 1-4 in conference play, Sunday’s series finale feels like the most important game of the season to date. Avoiding the home sweep is absolutely paramount.
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