LEADING OFF
• Baylor Baseball welcomes No. 12 Texas to Baylor Ballpark this weekend for a three-game series to start the second half of Big 12 play.
• The Bears are coming off a tight, 6-5 loss at No. 21 DBU Tuesday night. Down to their last strike, the Bears rallied to load the bases in the top of the ninth and had the game-tying run just 90 feet away before junior OF Hunter Simmons' 105 mile-an-hour line drive was caught in center field.
• The Bears bounced back from an 0-4 week to go 3-1 against Stephen F. Austin and Oklahoma, claiming their second conference series victory of the year and moving into 8th place in the league standings at 4-8.
• BU hit .283 as a team last week, including standout performances from freshman INF Kolby Branch (.467), junior INF/OF Cole Posey (.438) and junior OF Hunter Simmons (.412).
BY THE NUMBERS VS TEXAS
• Texas leads the all-time series, 250-112-4, over Baylor and has won nine of the last 11 meetings.
• BU is looking for its first series win over the Longhorns since 2017, though the two sides split a two-game series in 2019.
PROBABLE STARTERS
• Friday, April 14 • 6:30 p.m. • RHP Blake Helton (0-3, 7.61 ERA) vs. LHP Lucas Gordon (3-0, 2.17 ERA)
• Saturday, April 15 • 2:00 p.m. • RHP Mason Marriott (1-5, 7.97 ERA) vs. RHP Charlie Hurley (3-0, 2.43 ERA)
• Sunday, April 16 • 1:00 p.m. • RHP Will Rigney (3-1, 3.31 ERA) vs. TBA
• Baylor Baseball welcomes No. 12 Texas to Baylor Ballpark this weekend for a three-game series to start the second half of Big 12 play.
• The Bears are coming off a tight, 6-5 loss at No. 21 DBU Tuesday night. Down to their last strike, the Bears rallied to load the bases in the top of the ninth and had the game-tying run just 90 feet away before junior OF Hunter Simmons' 105 mile-an-hour line drive was caught in center field.
• The Bears bounced back from an 0-4 week to go 3-1 against Stephen F. Austin and Oklahoma, claiming their second conference series victory of the year and moving into 8th place in the league standings at 4-8.
• BU hit .283 as a team last week, including standout performances from freshman INF Kolby Branch (.467), junior INF/OF Cole Posey (.438) and junior OF Hunter Simmons (.412).
BY THE NUMBERS VS TEXAS
• Texas leads the all-time series, 250-112-4, over Baylor and has won nine of the last 11 meetings.
• BU is looking for its first series win over the Longhorns since 2017, though the two sides split a two-game series in 2019.
PROBABLE STARTERS
• Friday, April 14 • 6:30 p.m. • RHP Blake Helton (0-3, 7.61 ERA) vs. LHP Lucas Gordon (3-0, 2.17 ERA)
• Saturday, April 15 • 2:00 p.m. • RHP Mason Marriott (1-5, 7.97 ERA) vs. RHP Charlie Hurley (3-0, 2.43 ERA)
• Sunday, April 16 • 1:00 p.m. • RHP Will Rigney (3-1, 3.31 ERA) vs. TBA
