Final Stats | Postgame

THE RUNDOWN
AUSTIN -- Baylor baseball dropped a 7-6 decision at Texas on Saturday afternoon at Disch-Falk Field, coming just short of a series sweep. The Bears (24-27, 10-14) took the lead with a three-run seventh but the Longhorns (22-30, 10-14) countered with three in the bottom half to hold on.

Trailing 2-0 after the first inning, Baylor started chipping away at the lead in the third. Justin Arrington singled with one out and Josh Bissonette reached on an error to set up a Matt Menard RBI ground out.

In the fourth, BU tied the game on a two-out solo home run by West Tunnell. However, UT reclaimed the lead with a two-run bottom half.

Just like Friday night, the Bears rallied in the seventh inning for three runs and a lead. Tunnell started it by reaching on an error and Ben Carl followed with a double to set up Richard Cunningham, who ripped a two-run single up the middle and advanced to second on the throw home. An out later, Bissonette reached on an error to let Cunningham score and give Baylor a 5-4 lead.

Unfortunately, the Bears weren't able to hang on as Texas plated three runs on four hits and an error for a 7-5 lead.

BU made it interesting in the ninth as Cunningham launched a solo homer and Bissonette singled with two outs, but the Bears did not do any more damage.

UT reliever Nolan Kingham (2-3) earned the win, allowing three runs (one earned) on four hits with four strikeouts in 3.1 innings. Chase Shugart picked up his fifth save, giving up a run on two hits with two strikeouts in the ninth. BU reliever Drew Robertson (0-1) took the loss, surrendering two unearned runs on one hit in 1.1 innings.

NOTES
*Baylor trails the all-time series against Texas 239-108-4 overall, 135-43-1 in Austin and had won two straight in the series after entering the series with a three-game losing streak to UT -- BU has won 10 of the 20 all-time Big 12 series against UT. Baylor won its first series over UT since a sweep in Waco on April 26-28, 2013.

*Baylor has won five of its 12 three-game series in 2016 and 26 of 56 since 2012.

*Baylor was won 10 or more game in Big 12 play for the 18th time in 20 seasons and first time since going 12-11 in 2013.

*Baylor has won four of its last six games.

*Baylor is 8-11 on the road in 2016.

*Baylor has 31 home runs in 51 games in 2016, which are 14 more than the team had in 55 games in 2015 -- BU has 30 or more homers for the first time since blasting 46 in 2012.

*Matt Menard's career-high 14-game on-base streak ended.

*Justin Arrington has a career-high-tying nine-game on-base streak and three-game hitting streak.

*Josh Bissonette has a seven-game on-base streak and three-game hitting streak.

*West Tunnell hit the second home run of the season and his career.

*Richard Cunningham hit his fifth homer of the season and his career as he notched his 13th multi-hit and eighth multi-RBI game of the season.

*Kameron Esthay posted his team-high-tying 16th multi-hit game of the season.

STAT OF THE GAME
6 -- The amount of runs scored by both teams in the seventh inning as the lead changed hands twice.

QUOTE OF THE GAME
"I'm excited to go (to the Big 12 Championship) and see what it's all about. Postseason is what everyone is excited about and that's when your best players have the opportunity to rise up. Hopefully the guys who have been doing a good job for us this year will be able to maximize that." -- Head Coach Steve Rodriguez

WHAT'S NEXT
Baylor heads to Oklahoma City for next week's Big 12 Championship as the No. 6 seed and will face No. 3 seed TCU on Wednesday at 4 p.m. CT