The regular season Big 12 title just wasn’t meant to be it seems. The Sooners fell in their regular-season finale to the No. 5 Texas Tech Red Raiders 10-2.
With the loss, TCU captures sole possession of the Big 12 regular-season title, with Texas Tech and OU finishing one game behind the Horned Frogs.
Oklahoma’s only runs of the day came from a pair of RBI singles from Tanner Tredaway and Jimmy Crooks. Things were looking good in the top of the first as Oklahoma struck first. Perhaps the Sooners would end up pulling off the improbable and finish off the sweep in enemy territory.
Then the Red Raiders came to bat.
Texas Tech jumped all over OU starting pitcher Cade Horton early. Horton walked the lead off batter and hit the next one to give Tech two early base runners.
Another walk, two RBI singles and an RBI double later, the Red Raiders had a 5-2 lead after the first inning.
The Sooners just couldn’t string any hits together after their strong first inning. After that first inning, OU didn’t get more than one hit in a frame for the rest of the game. The closest OU came to putting more runs on the board was when they loaded the bases in the seventh with a single and a pair of walks.
Peyton Graham and Blake Robertson both struck out with the bases loaded, leaving all three runners stranded.
While it was a disappointing way for the regular season to end, the Sooners head into the postseason on a quite a run. The Sooners won five straight Big 12 series to close the season, including taking two of three from the No. 5 ranked Red Raiders.
OU’s late surge in Big 12 play was good enough to earn the No. 3 seed in the Big 12 Tournament and will face West Virginia in their first game of the double-elimination bracket.
Oklahoma took two of three from the Mountaineers just a week ago, outscoring West Virginia 40-17 in the three-game set.
The Big 12 tournament will be streamed on ESPN+ and played at Globe Life Field, home of the Texas Rangers.
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