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Redshirt sophomore Brett Squires shared Big 12 Player of the Week honors after his impressive performance against West Virginia.
For the fifth time this season, Oklahoma Baseball was awarded a Big 12 weekly honor with infielder/outfielder Brett Squires selected as the conference’s co-Player of the Week, sharing the honor with Texas Christian University’s Luke Boyers. This is the second time in his collegiate career that Squires has won a weekly award from the Big 12.
The redshirt sophomore had a good series against West Virginia, going 6 for 8 with seven RBIs, including a home run in the rubber match of the series, a 17-7 win for the Oklahoma Sooners.
No. 12 has appeared in 28 games in 2022, hitting .338 with four home runs and 19 RBIs on the season. Squires is in his second season with OU after transferring from Texas JUCO McLennan College.
After winning the award, Squires went 0 for 3 with two strikeouts against Wichita State in an 18-0 loss on the road.
The Sooners are going to need their best from Squires and everyone else in the lineup going into their final series of the season against No. 5 Texas Tech Red Raiders. The three-game series begins on Thursday night. Tech just swept the Oklahoma State Cowboys in their three-game series last week in Stillwater.
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Oklahoma baseball fell to TCU 7-3 Sunday afternoon for their seventh loss in the last eight games and suffer a series sweep.
Oklahoma baseball limped into Sunday’s series finale against No. 11/12/22/25 TCU needing a win about as bad as you could need one. After getting clobbered 17-6 by the Horned Frogs Saturday night, the Sooners had dropped six of their last seven games and had fallen all the way back down to .500 on the season.
Needing a good outing desperately, Skip Johnson turned to left-hander Braden Carmichael who did well in a similar spot just a week ago to help Oklahoma salvage the series and avoid a sweep against Texas. He was solid in this one, giving his team a chance to win, but got burnt late perhaps being left in the game just an inning too long.
Carmichael started off strong tossing three scoreless frames to open things up. Meanwhile, the Sooners were able to plate three runs in the second and third innings on a sacrifice fly from second baseman Conor McKenna and a two-run home run by first baseman Tyler Hardman to hold a 3-0 lead heading to the fourth.
It was at that point where Carmichael would run into serious problems for the first time, allowing the Horned Frogs to knot things up with three runs of their own on a two-run double by shortstop Tommy Sacco and an RBI single by left fielder Porter Brown.
The game would remain even at 3-3 into the seventh inning when TCU’s bats would come alive again on a trio of home runs. The first was a two-run shot off the bat of Brown to make it 5-3 and knock Carmichael out of the game. Oklahoma would then turn to one of their best relievers in right-hander Carson Carter, but he would serve up a pair of solo home runs to right fielder Phillip Sikes and third baseman Brayden Taylor to make the lead 7-3.
7-3 would go on to be the final score as the Horned Frogs completed the sweep of Oklahoma in Norman, dropping the Sooners below .500 on the season at 13-14 and just 1-5 in Big 12 play.
This rough patch for Oklahoma has gotten to a very tough point for the team, as this is their seventh loss in the last eight games. To say they have to find a way to turn things around soon would be a pretty big understatement, as their hopes for making much of this season are starting to hang on by a thread.
Granted playing Texas, Oklahoma State and TCU is certainly a difficult seven-game stretch on the schedule for just about any team in the country…but you still have to find a way to win more than once. You just have to. The next week is easily the biggest of the season to this point for the Sooners as they simply have to pick up wins to try to turn things around before any hope of NCAA Tournament berth is gone.
Luckily for the Sooners, they have many home games still coming up over the month of April to try and stock pile some wins and get momentum back. Next up is a date with in-state foe Oral Roberts on Tuesday night back at L. Dale Mitchell Park.
Oklahoma baseball was blown out at home by TCU Saturday evening 17-6 for their sixth loss in the last seven games.
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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Oklahoma baseball lost their fifth in the last six games falling to TCU on Friday night 11-7 in Norman.
Oklahoma baseball is going through it right now as they dropped their series opener against No. 11/12/22/25 TCU on Friday night 11-7 for their fifth loss in the last six games. Continue reading “Oklahoma handed fifth loss in last six games, fall in series opener to TCU 11-7”
Everything you need to know for Oklahoma baseball’s three-game weekend set against TCU beginning Friday night.
Oklahoma (13-11, 1-2) has returned back to home soil for their first set of games in Norman since they took on Houston a couple of weeks ago. This will be the Sooners first home conference series of the season as awaiting them will be another tough foe in No. 11/12/22/25 TCU (17-7, 3-0).
The road swing wasn’t especially kind to Skip Johnson’s club, for after sweeping the Cougars to run their win streak to six in a row they dropped four of the five games played away from Norman including getting walked off by Oklahoma State in Stillwater earlier this week. The team enters this weekend looking for a good series to right the ship.
The Horned Frogs come into the weekend as one of the better teams in the country playing some really good baseball as of late. They have won each of their last six contests including a home sweep of Baylor in their first conference set last weekend. They also have a very impressive win over Mississippi State under their belt they picked up back in February.
For Oklahoma to be successful against another tough opponent, they will need to fair far better with runners in scoring position – something that has been an issue over the losing skid. Both Johnson and players expressed this week a necessary mentality change to do better in those situations moving forward.
This series will provide the 100th, 101st and 102nd all-time meetings between the Sooners and TCU, with Oklahoma leading historically 62-37. The Horned Frogs, however, took three of the four meetings between the two in 2019. TCU is coached by Jim Schlossnagle in his 18th year with the program.
For this important conference series, here is everything you need to know:
PITCHING MATCHUP: Oklahoma RHP Wyatt Olds (1-2, 6.67) vs TCU LHP Russell Smith (4-1, 1.91)
WHEN: 6:30 p.m. CT
WHERE: Norman, Oklahoma (L. Dale Mitchell Park)
HOW TO WATCH: Bally Sports Oklahoma Plus (Chad McKee & George Frazier)
HOW TO LISTEN: Sooner Sports Radio Network – Sportstalk 99.3 FM/1400 AM KREF; Tune In Radio App; Sportstalk1400.com (Toby Rowland & Blake Brewster)
PITCHING MATCHUP: Oklahoma LHP Jake Bennett (3-1, 4.50) vs TCU LHP Austin Krob (3-0, 2.48)
WHEN: 4:00 p.m. CT
WHERE: Norman, Oklahoma (L. Dale Mitchell Park)
HOW TO WATCH: Bally Sports Oklahoma (Chad McKee & George Frazier)
HOW TO LISTEN: Sooner Sports Radio Network – Sportstalk 99.3 FM/1400 AM KREF; Tune In Radio App; Sportstalk1400.com (Toby Rowland & Blake Brewster)
PITCHING MATCHUP: Oklahoma LHP Braden Carmichael (4-0, 3.00) vs TCU RHP Johnny Ray (2-1, 2.18)
WHEN: 2:00 p.m. CT
WHERE: Norman, Oklahoma (L. Dale Mitchell Park)
HOW TO WATCH: SoonerSports.tv (Chad McKee & George Frazier)
HOW TO LISTEN: Sooner Sports Radio Network – Sportstalk 99.3 FM/1400 AM KREF; Tune In Radio App; Sportstalk1400.com (Toby Rowland & Blake Brewster)
