March 27, 2015 Final Stats
THE RUNDOWN
WACO, Texas - Baylor (11-14, 3-4) earned a 3-0 win over Oklahoma (17-11, 2-2) Friday night at Baylor Ballpark. The Bears rode starter Daniel Castano as he threw a complete game shutout.
Baylor started the game quickly as Logan Brown led off with a single and stole second. Mitch Price then delivered a two-out RBI single to give the Bears all the support they needed.
In the fifth, BU added to its lead with a pair of runs. Jonathan Ducoff led off with a single and scored on Levi Gilcrease's sacrifice bunt attempt as OU starter Jake Elliott threw wildly down the right field line to put Gilcrease at third. Steven McLean scored Gilcrease on the next play with a sac fly for a 3-0 lead.
Castano (2-3) earned the win, allowing no runs on five hits and five walks with four strikeouts in a career-high nine innings, and picked up his first career shutout to become the first Baylor pitcher to throw a complete game shutout since 2011 (Logan Verrett) and first to do so in Big 12 play since 2008 (Shawn Tolleson). Elliott (3-3) took the loss, surrendering three runs on seven hits with no walks and 10 strikeouts in seven innings.
NOTES
*Baylor is 375-158 all-time at Baylor Ballpark, 9-4 this season and has won 15 of its 20 home series since 2012, including all three thus far in 2015 (No. 13 Cal Poly, 3-0 | Kent State, 2-1 | West Virginia, 2-1).
*Baylor owns a 491-553-4 record against current members of the Big 12 and a 271-213 all-time record in regular season play.
*Baylor has won five of its last seven games since enduring a program-record-tying 10-game losing streak from Feb. 27-March 15.
*Baylor trails the all-time series vs. Oklahoma 41-40, 35-30 under Steve Smith but leads 26-15 in Waco - the Bears have won 10 of the 18 Big 12 series between the two teams, including the last two.
*Baylor is 225-149 in March under Steve Smith and 5-9 this season.
*Daniel Castano tossed his first complete game shutout and Baylor's first since 2011 (Logan Verrett vs. Louisiana Tech, March 22, 2011) and first in Big 12 play since 2008 (Shawn Tolleson at Kansas State, April 13, 2008). Baylor also had a seven-inning complete game shutout in 2009 (Willie Kempf vs. Missouri, April 11, 2009).
*Duncan Wendel has reached base in his last 11 games and extended his career-best hitting streak to seven games with his fifth multi-hit effort of the season.
*Logan Brown has reached base in his last seven games and posted his team-best ninth multi-hit game.
*Freshman Jonathan Ducoff has a hit in his last four games.
*Mitch Price notched his fourth multi-hit game.
STAT OF THE GAME
7 - The amount years it's been since a Baylor pitcher tossed a complete game shutout in Big 12 play (Shawn Tolleson, 2008).
TWEET OF THE GAME
QUOTE OF THE GAME
"No, not even close [to Daniel Castano's best game at Baylor]. He had five walks and four strikeouts - that wasn't the best I have ever seen but he competed. I don't think he had a 1-2-3 inning the whole game. It really seemed like they weren't seeing him very well. He was just kind of effectively wild. He was up a little bit in the zone, and there were quite a lot of fly ball outs in the game. On a night when nothing is really going, he competed as well as he has competed all year, as did their guy." - Baylor head coach Steve Smith
WHAT'S NEXT
The teams continue the series at 3 p.m. CT tomorrow and 1 p.m. Sunday. The pitching matchup for Saturday features BU RHP Drew Tolson (0-5, 5.02 ERA) vs. OU RHP Alec Hansen (3-2, 3.34 ERA) while both teams have yet to announce a Sunday starter.
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