April 16, 2010

KANSAS STATE 5, BAYLOR 2 Box Score | Quotes 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 4 1 4 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 X 5 12 1 Pitching IP H R ER BB SO W - Rooke (3-1) 4.0 0 0 0 0 5 L - Tolleson (1-5) 0.1 5 4 4 0 0 S - Allen (4) 1.0 0 0 0 0 1 Batting Leaders AB H RBI R BB HR BU - Ware 2 1 1 1 0 0 KSU - Urban 4 3 1 1 0 0 KSU - Muenster 3 2 0 1 2 0 Notes: Freshman Logan Vick has reached base safely (via hit or walk) in all 33 games this season ... Joey Hainsfurther's hitting streak was snapped at eight games ... Tyler Collins tied a career best by extending his hitting streak to four games ... The last time the Bears had four or fewer hits was also in the state of Kansas - Baylor had just three hits in a 6-0 loss at Kansas on April 4, 2009 ... Baylor is now 31-14 in the all-time series with Kansas State, and the Bears are 10-9 all-time in games played in Manhattan. BAYLOR BASEBALL CENTRAL • Baylor Athletics Experience • Baseball Media Almanac

MANHATTAN, Kan. - Kansas State jumped out to an early lead with four runs in the first inning, and that was enough as the Baylor offense was held to a season-low four hits in a 5-2 loss on Friday night at Tointon Stadium.

The first seven Kansas State (24-8, 7-3 Big 12) batters to come to the plate against Baylor (21-12, 5-6 Big 12) starting pitcher Shawn Tolleson reached base safely. The Wildcats knocked two singles, three doubles and twice had batters hit by a pitch to take a 4-0 lead with just one out.

Tolleson turned the ball over to Craig Fritsch out of the bullpen, and he quickly got out of the inning with a groundball double play.

KSU starter Ryan Daniel retired the first six Baylor batters before Tyler Collins led off the third inning with a double, and Landis Ware got the Bears on the board with a RBI single. After Logan Vick moved Ware to third with a single, Brooks Pinckard cut the deficit to 4-2 with a run-scoring groundout.

Raynor Campbell led off the fourth with a single, but that would be the Bears' last hit of the night.

"They pitched it really, really well," head coach Steve Smith said. "Their Friday night guy (Daniel) was really good and then they went to (Thomas) Rooke very early in the game. That is as good as it is going to get, and then they finished with their closer. We saw the three best guys they have got, and obviously they were very good. I thought we hung in there extremely well."

Gregg Glime walked leading off the fifth, and Ware reached when his sacrifice bunt was misplayed into an error. Daniel turned the ball over to Thomas Rooke out of the KSU bullpen, and he got a double-play grounder and a groundout to first to escape the inning.

Fritsch kept the Bears within striking distance by working 5.1 innings of shutout relief, but Baylor couldn't manage any offense against the Kansas bullpen that combined to work 5.0 perfect innings.

Rooke (3-1) picked up the win after working 4.0 shutout innings of relief with five strikeouts, and James Allen worked a perfect ninth to notch his fourth save of the season.

Kansas State added a run to its lead in the seventh when Kent Urban singled, stole second base and came around to score on Mike Kendel's RBI single off of Kolt Browder.

Browder allowed just one run on two hits with three strikeouts in 2.1 innings of relief. Tolleson (1-5) took the loss after allowing four runs on five hits in 0.1 inning.

Vick, Collins, Campbell and Ware each had one hit for Baylor. The Wildcats were led at the plate by Urban, who went 3-for-4 with a run and one RBI.

The Bears will attempt to even the series when the teams meet again at 2 p.m. tomorrow. Logan Verrett (4-2, 3.33 ERA) gets the starting nod for Baylor against Kansas State's Kyle Hunter (6-0, 3.32).