Final Stats

THE RUNDOWN
WACO, Texas - Baylor (14-22) earned a 2-1 win over Incarnate Word (11-24) Tuesday night at Baylor Ballpark. The Bears used a two-run first inning and stellar pitching to top the Cardinals.

Logan Brown started the game for BU with a leadoff double and scored on an Adam Toth single. After a ground out by Cameron Miller moved Toth to second, Mitch Price singled him home with two outs to give the Bears all the runs they'd need.

The lone run UIW scored came in the fourth after a leadoff walk and one-out single as Ethan McGill singled in the run. The Cardinals best chance to tie the game came in the seventh off reliever Troy Montemayor but the Bears held tight.

Montemayor gave up a two-out double and walk before getting Weston Pitts to ground a ball up the middle. Second baseman West Tunnell was shaded up the middle and ranged to his right to field it behind the bag and delivered a one-hop laser off his back foot that first baseman Mitch Price scooped to end the inning and preserve the lead.

BU starter Kody Hessemer (3-1) earned the win, allowing the one run on three hits and one walk with two strikeouts in five innings. Theron Kay, Montemayor, Sean Spicer and Brad Kuntz each tossed a scoreless frame in order to end the game. Kuntz picked up his first save of the season while striking out two batters. UIW starter Kris Looper (0-4) took the loss after giving up two runs on five hits and two walks with eight strikeouts in eight innings.

NOTES
*Since the park opened in 1999, Baylor owns a 378-162 record at Baylor Ballpark and has never had a losing season in the stadium. The closest BU came to a losing season was in 2011, when the Bears were 16-14 at Baylor Ballpark. Since 2012, BU has won 16 of its 22 home series. The Bears are 12-8 at home this year and have won four of five series thus far (3-0 vs. No .13 Cal Poly | 2-1 vs. Kent State | 2-1 vs. West Virginia | 2-1 vs. Oklahoma | 0-3 vs. Texas State).

*Baylor leads the all-time series 3-0 overall, 3-0 in Waco and 3-0 under Steve Smith. The teams first met last season at Baylor Ballpark on April 1-2, 2014, and the Bears took both games.

*Baylor is 208-115-1 all-time vs. current members of the Southland Conference and 3-1 this year.

*Baylor 227-159 in April under Smith and 2-6 this year.

*Brad Kuntz earned his first save of the season and third of his career.

*Logan Brown has a nine-game on-base streak as he tallied his team-high 14th multi-hit game.

*Mitch Price has reached base in three straight games.

STAT OF THE GAME
4 - The amount of scoreless innings of relief by Baylor's bullpen.

QUOTE OF THE GAME
"If [Kody] Hessemer would've thrown six more fastballs instead of six more offspeed stuff, he wouldn't have given up a run and we would've ended up with under 100 pitches. [Troy] Montemayor was in the [big] spot. He pitched around a guy with two outs, then started attacking with the fastball, I mean just attacked. Then [Brad] Kuntz came in and pitched a good ninth for us." - Baylor head coach Steve Smith

WHAT'S NEXT
Baylor heads to Stillwater, Oklahoma, this weekend for a three-game series against Oklahoma State. Games are set for 7 p.m. CT Friday, 3 p.m. Saturday and 1 p.m. Sunday.