Final Stats

THE RUNDOWN
WACO, Texas - Baylor (16-24) earned an 8-6 win over Lamar (18-22) Tuesday evening at Baylor Ballpark. The Bears scored all eight runs in the fourth, fifth and sixth innings en route to victory.

Kameron Esthay started the scoring for the Bears by leading off the fourth with a long solo homer to right field. Mitch Price followed with a double and Cameron Miller singled to right. Lamar right fielder CJ Moore had Miller's ball go through his legs to allow Price to score for a BU 2-0 lead.

In the fifth, Miller struck again after an Esthay walk and Price single as he roped a two-run double down the right field line.

Following a three-run homer by Lamar's Kyle Markum in the sixth, the Bears countered with four runs in the bottom half. Justin Arrington started the frame with a walk and Darryn Sheppard followed with a double. Logan Brown then smashed a two-run double to left-center. An out and Adam Toth walk later, a double steal cause a throwing error and scored Brown before Esthay singled home Toth for an 8-3 lead.

The Cardinals got a run in the seventh off a Stijn van der Meer solo homer and then plated two in the ninth on five hits before BU reliever Joe Kirkland ended the rally.

BU starter Kody Hessemer (4-1) earned the win after giving up two runs on five hits and two walks in five innings. Kirkland picked up his first save as he allowed no runs on three hits with two strikeouts in 0.2 frames. Lamar starter Eric Foshee (2-4) took the loss after allowing two runs on three hits and two walks with one strikeout in three innings.

NOTES
*Since the park opened in 1999, Baylor owns a 379-162 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 13-8 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 against Lamar 43-31-1 overall, 24-12 in Waco and 6-3 under Smith. The teams last met on March 5, 2014 in Waco and the Bears won a 3-2 decision.

*Baylor is 209-115-1 all-time vs. current members of the Southland Conference and 4-1 this year.

*Baylor 229-161 in April under Smith and 4-8 this year.

*Kameron Esthay has a hit in his last five games as he blasted his team-high third homer of the season and tallied his ninth multi-hit game and team-high eighth multi-RBI effort.

*Kody Hessemer tied a season high with five innings pitched and earned his team-high fourth win.

*Joe Kirkland earned his first career save.

*Logan Brown has a 13-game on-base streak as he posted his team-high 17th multi-hit game and sixth multi-RBI contest - it's the fifth time he's had three hits in a game this year.

*Mitch Price had his sixth multi-hit game.

*Cameron Miller notched his fifth multi-hit game and third multi-RBI effort.

STAT OF THE GAME
6 - The amount of hits by Baylor's 4-5-6 hitters as Esthay, Price and Miller each had two hits apiece and drove in a combined four runs.

QUOTE OF THE GAME
"[Kody Hessemer] was able to eat up five innings, and do it really, really well. He doesn't seem to be a guy that really needs a lot of a routine. He threw in the game on Saturday up in Stillwater, and usually that will take the edge off a guy the next time you ask him to start, but for him it didn't. He's done it a couple times for me, so he is what he is and he had a little life on his fastball today and good command on it. He was really able to throw his breaking ball for strikes and eat up some innings for us." - Baylor head coach Steve Smith

WHAT'S NEXT
Baylor hosts Kansas State at Baylor Ballpark this weekend for a three-game Big 12 series. Games are set for 6:30 p.m. CT Friday, 3 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday.