Final Stats

THE RUNDOWN
WACO, Texas - Baylor (12-15) dropped an 11-0 decision to No. 20 Houston (20-9) Tuesday evening at Baylor Ballpark. The game was tied until the Cougars put the game out of reach with four runs in the fifth and six runs in the seventh.

BU starter Theron Kay gave up a single to start the game but retired 12 straight batters after that. Then came a tough fifth that started with a leadoff single by Connor Wong and RBI double by Justin Montemayor. UH then pushed three more runs across on one hit, one walk and three errors.

In the seventh, the Cougars scored six runs on five hits, two walks, one error and a wild pitch. UH also added a run in the eighth on one hit, one walk and two wild pitches.

Houston starter David Longville (2-2) earned the win with five shutout innings while allowing six hits and striking out two. Kay (3-2) took the loss after giving up four runs on four hits and one walk with one strikeout in 4.1 innings.

NOTES
*Baylor is 30-34 against ranked teams since 2011 and 3-7 this season.

*Baylor is 192-286-1 overall against Baseball America top 25 teams and 0-7 this season.

*Baylor is 18-9 against ranked teams at home since 2012.

*Baylor leads the all-time series against Houston 87-65, 21-20 under Steve Smith and 35-29 in Waco but the Bears have lost five straight in the series.

*Baylor is 376-160 all-time at Baylor Ballpark, 10-6 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 is 94-67 all-time against current members of the American Athletic Conference and 0-1 this season.

*Baylor is 226-151 in March under Steve Smith and 6-11 this season.

*Duncan Wendel has reached base in his last 14 games and extended his hitting streak to 10 games - both are career high streaks.

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

*Aaron Dodson posted his team-high-tying ninth multi-hit game.

STAT OF THE GAME
10 - The amount consecutive games that Duncan Wendel has a hit for Baylor.

QUOTE OF THE GAME
"We're real thin so we're having to run guys multiple times out there in short time frames. Nobody's going to feel sorry for us. Part of being a good baseball player is more than being able to hit, run, throw - it's being able to think the game and being able to play the game. The only way it seems to me that you learn is almost by failure, and failure costs you ballgames." - Baylor head coach Steve Smith

WHAT'S NEXT
Baylor plays Texas State in a split three-game series. Games are scheduled for 6 p.m. CT in San Marcos, Texas, Thursday, 6:30 p.m. in Waco Friday and 3 p.m. in Waco Saturday.