Final Stats

THE RUNDOWN
WACO, Texas - Baylor (17-24, 6-10) earned a 4-1 win in the series opener against Kansas State (18-22, 5-11) Saturday afternoon at Baylor Ballpark as the teams resumed play from Friday night's suspended game.

The Bears had a 3-0 lead thanks to a two-run, two-out triple by Matt Menard in the fourth and RBI two-out single by Adam Toth in the fifth.

The Wildcats answered with a run in the sixth on a two-out double by Steve Serratore, and then had their first two runners reach in the seventh off BU starter Drew Tolson but the game was suspended at that point.

Over 18 hours later, the teams resumed play with BU reliever Sean Spicer on the mound. He made a nice play on a sacrifice bunt attempt to get a force at third against his first batter. After hitting the next batter to load the bases, Spicer fanned the next two to escape unscathed.

BU added an insurance run in the seventh on a two-out RBI single from Toth again, and Spicer easily closed out the game.

Tolson (3-6), who retired the first 10 batters he faced, earned the win after giving up one run on six hits and two walks with one strikeout in six-plus innings. Spicer picked up his fifth save, tossing three perfect frames with three strikeouts. KSU starter Colton Kalmus (1-3) took the loss, allowing three runs on five hits and two walks with two strikeouts in 4.1 innings.

NOTES
*Since the park opened in 1999, Baylor owns a 380-162 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 14-8 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 vs. Kansas State 43-21 overall, 42-20 under Steve Smith and 26-4 in Waco. Last season, KSU took two of three in Manhattan, Kansas, on April 17-19, 2014. Overall, Baylor has won 14 of the 18 all-time Big 12 series vs. KSU, including three of the last four series. The other three series wins for KSU also came in Manhattan: April 16-18, 2010, May 19-21, 2006, and April 26-28, 2002.

*As one of the league's founding members in 1997, Baylor owns a 494-559-4 record against the current members of the Big 12 Conference. The Bears own a 274-219 all-time record in regular season play.

*Baylor 230-161 in April under Smith and 5-8 this year.

*Drew Tolson earned his second straight win and had his fifth straight start while giving up three or less runs.

*Sean Spicer extended his career high saves total to five by achieving his longest save of his career, tying a season-high three-inning appearance.

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

*Matt Menard has a hit in his last three games and posted his third multi-RBI game.

*Logan Brown has a career-high 14-game on-base streak.

*Mitch Price had his sixth multi-hit game.

*Adam Toth notched his fourth multi-hit game, first three-hit game of the season and fourth multi-RBI game.