Final Stats

THE RUNDOWN
DALLAS - Baylor (6-9) fell 17-3 to No. 20 Dallas Baptist (11-2) Tuesday evening at Horner Ballpark. The Patriots used a four-run fourth, five-run fifth and four-run sixth to take down the Bears.

Before the game got out of hand, the Bears were down 1-0 with two outs and the bases loaded in the third inning. Unfortunately, Cameron Miller struck out to leave the bases loaded, the Patriots immediately added a run in the bottom half, and never looked back as a heavy flurry of runs were scored by DBU in the next three frames.

In the fourth, the Patriots scored four runs on a Drew Turbin two-run single and Camden Duzenack two-run home run. The DBU fifth featured an RBI single by Nash Knight, RBI double by Turbin and three-run homer by Justin Wall. In the sixth, Chane Lynch had a two-run double and Turbin a two-run single for a 15-0 lead.

DBU added two more in the seventh on singles by Tagg Duce and Knight before the Bears plated three in the ninth on a Ben Carl RBI double and two-run single from West Tunnell.

DBU starter Jay Calhoun (2-0) earned the win after 4.2 shutout innings while allowing four hits and two walks with four strikeouts. BU starter Theron Kay (2-1) took the loss, giving up five runs on five hits and three walks with two strikeouts in 3.1 innings.

NOTES
*Baylor is 30-30 against ranked teams since 2011 and 3-3 this season.

*Baylor is 56-140 all-time on the road against Baseball America ranked teams, 192-282-1 overall since 1981, and 0-3 this season.

*Baylor has lost seven straight games for the first time since May 7-23, 2002.

*Baylor is 46-25 all-time against Dallas Baptist, 10-8 in Dallas and 17-11 under Steve Smith - the teams already met once this season in Waco on Feb. 17 for a 9-6 DBU win.

*Baylor is 51-28 all-time against current members of the Missouri Valley Conference and 0-2 this season after falling to DBU earlier in the year.

*Baylor is 220-144 in March under Steve Smith and 0-4 this season.

*Redshirt freshman Case Smith made his first career start (first base).

*Logan Brown has reached base in his last five games.

*Duncan Wendel has reached base in his last three games.

*West Tunnell has reached base in his last three games.

STAT OF THE GAME
12 - The amount of extra base hits by Dallas Baptist in the game.

QUOTE OF THE GAME
"The issue here right now is not talent - it's the ability to compete and play and handle failure. Some of these guys have never been on a team where they didn't play and all of a sudden they have to compete at a little bit of a different level, at a much higher level. It's my job to raise that level for them and bring that out of them, and that's what my goal is." - Baylor head coach Steve Smith

WHAT'S NEXT
Baylor continues its 11-game venture away from Baylor Ballpark by opening Big 12 play this weekend at No. 4 TCU. Games are slated for 6:30 p.m. CT Friday, 2 p.m. Saturday and 1 p.m. Sunday.