Final Stats

THE RUNDOWN
WACO, Texas - Baylor (12-15, 4-5) came up short in its attempt to sweep Oklahoma (18-12, 3-3) as the Sooners earned a 13-3 victory Sunday afternoon at Baylor Ballpark behind an eight-run first inning.

The Sooners' eight runs in the first came off starter Kody Hessemer (1-1), who only recorded one out while giving up six hits, one walk and one HBP. Troy Montemayor cooled the OU bats to end the inning and gave Baylor 4.2 scoreless innings before the Sooners added a run in the seventh off Brad Kuntz, three in the eighth off Kyle Ott and one in the ninth off Case Smith.

Baylor scored in the fifth inning on a Logan Brown sacrifice fly, sixth on a Kameron Esthay RBI single and eighth on a Matt Menard RBI double.

OU starter Robert Tasin (5-1) earned the win after surrendering two runs on seven hits with four strikeouts in six innings.

NOTES
*Baylor is 376-159 all-time at Baylor Ballpark, 10-5 this season and has won 16 of its 21 home series since 2012, including all four thus far in 2015 (No. 13 Cal Poly, 3-0 | Kent State, 2-1 | West Virginia, 2-1 | Oklahoma, 2-1).

*Baylor has won four of its six three-game series in 2015 and 21 of 39 since 2012.

*Baylor owns a 492-554-4 record against current members of the Big 12 and a 272-214 all-time record in regular season play.

*Baylor has won six of its last nine games since enduring a program-record-tying 10-game losing streak from Feb. 27-March 15.

*Baylor trails the all-time series vs. Oklahoma 42-41 and 36-31 under Steve Smith but leads 27-16 in Waco - the Bears have won 11 of the 19 Big 12 series between the two teams, including the last three.

*Baylor is 226-150 in March under Steve Smith and 6-10 this season.

*Junior transfer Kody Hessemer made his first career start in a Baylor uniform.

*Lane Kelly made his season debut and first career start (left field).

*Duncan Wendel has reached base in his last 13 games and extended his career-best hitting streak to nine games with his sixth multi-hit effort.

*Redshirt freshman Case Smith made his pitching debut for Baylor.

*Matt Menard has reached base in his last four games and had his fourth multi-hit game.

*Kameron Esthay has a hit in his last three games.

*West Tunnell posted his third multi-hit game.

STAT OF THE GAME
8 - The amount of runs scored by Oklahoma in the first inning and the amount of runners left on base by Baylor.

QUOTE OF THE GAME
"Troy [Montemayor] was good, I thought, after the first. That inning was a combination of things. There were some plays in there that we can make that we don't make, and obviously they hit some balls well. I thought it was more really about them taking some very, very good approaches throughout the ballgame. They stayed on that side of the field and took the outer half of the plate away from our guys and really just executed very well at the plate." - Baylor head coach Steve Smith

WHAT'S NEXT
Baylor hosts Houston Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. CT at Baylor Ballpark.