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BSB Begins Week of In-State Showdowns With UTSA
4/13/2026 5:30:00 PM | Baseball
Bears host Roadrunners on Tuesday night
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BAYLOR BEARS (20-15, 8-7 Big 12) Location: Waco, Texas Conference/Affiliation: Big 12 Head Coach: Mitch Thompson (Fort Hays St., 1988) Roster | Stats | Game Notes (PDF) |
BAYLOR (20-15, 8-7) vs UTSA (25-11, 8-4) April 14, 2026 • 6:30 p.m. CT Waco, Texas • Magnolia Field at Baylor Ballpark (5,000) LIVE STATS: BaylorBears.com/Stats WATCH: ESPN+ Talent: John Morris, Matt Czimskey LISTEN: ESPN Central Texas 1660 AM/92.3 FM Talent: Derek Smith, Tom Barfield Baylor Social Media:    |
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UTSA ROADRUNNERS (25-11, 8-4 AAC) Location: San Antonio, Texas Conference/Affiliation: American Athletic Head Coach: Patrick Hallmark (Rice, 2002) Roster | Stats |
STORYLINES
LEADING OFF
• Baylor Baseball returns home for a week full of games against in-state rivals at Magnolia Field at Baylor Ballpark, starting with a Tuesday night tilt against UTSA ahead of a weekend series against TCU.
• BU is coming off a series loss at Cincinnati, though the Bears were able to salvage the weekend finale on Sunday in thrilling fashion.
• Baylor erased a pair of one-run deficits (2-1 through four innings, 3-2 through six innings) to stay neck-and-neck with the Bearcats, then exploded for a five-run top of the ninth inning to pull away on Sunday and win an 8-3 ballgame.
• After the weekend at UC, Baylor sits in a three-way tie for fifth place in the Big 12 standings at 8-7 alongside TCU and BYU.
• Baylor is 7-2 in series openers so far in 2026 and has won six of its last seven series openers.
• Prior to the Cincinnati series, BU had won four-straight series openers in Big 12 play, marking the first such streak for the program since 2021.
• The Bears are 6-1 this year in games when redshirt junior RHP Lucas Davenport starts.
• Baylor has turned 29 double plays in 35 games, which ranks fourth in the Big 12 and 37th nationally.
• BU opened the year on a 10-game winning streak at home, its longest home winning streak to start a season since 2021.
• The home winning streak extended to 11 games when counting the 2025 home finale, making it Baylor's longest home winning streak since 2012, when the Bears won 22 in a row in Waco.
TUESDAY NIGHT'S TILT
• Baylor is 37-11 all-time against UTSA, but just 1-3 against the Roadrunners under fourth-year head coach Mitch Thompson.
• BU and UTSA met earlier this season at the BRUCE BOLT College Classic in Houston at Daikin Park, where the Roadrunners won an 11-6 game.
• UTSA jumped out to a 9-0 lead after the first five innings, but the Bears were able to scratch their way back into the ballgame with some late runs in each the sixth, seventh and eighth innings.
• The Bears are 8-4 this season against in-state rivals.
• BU is 5-3 in midweek ballgames so far in 2026 and 32-14 in such games during the Thompson Era.
• The Bears have won 21 of their last 25 midweek contests.
PROBABLE STARTING PITCHERS
• Tues. April 14 • 6:30 p.m. CT • RHP Luke McLeod (0-0, 1.84 ERA) vs. RHP Christian Okerholm (0-2, 4.50 ERA)
SWIPING RIGHT (ON THE BASES)
• Through 35 games, the Bears have stolen 63 bases, the most by a BU team at this point in a season since at least 2003.
• Baylor has stolen five or more bases five times in 2026, and have stolen multiple bases in 16 games this year.
• 2026 is the first season since 2013 that BU has had three or more players reach double figures in stolen bases: Brady Janusek, 14; Travis Sanders, 10; Pearson Riebock, 10.
• Cade Dodson (8) and Ty Johnson (7) are within striking distance of also joining the 10+ bags club.
• Janusek sits 10 stolen bases shy of the program's all-time freshman record, set by Mike Robison in 1988 (24).
NO BROOMS AROUND THE BEARS
• With Baylor's win over Cincinnati in last Sunday's series finale, it marked the 16th-consecutive Big 12 series in which the Bears collected at least one win.
• The last time BU was swept in a conference series was May 10-11, 2024, at Oklahoma.
• This was Baylor's fifth-straight win in a weekend finale when down 0-2 in a Big 12 series.
• Baylor had not been down 0-2 in a conference series since May 9-11, 2025, vs. Oklahoma State, making this the first time BU faced an 0-2 deficit on the weekend in six Big 12 series.
DIALING UP THE STRIKES
• Senior LHP Ethan Calder saw his 16-inning streak without allowing a walk snapped in Sunday's finale at UC.
• Of his 27 career starts, Calder has never walked more than three batters, and has allowed two walks or less 23 times. This was Calder's 16th-career start with just one walk allowed or less.
• Calder worked his 13th career start of at least five innings with three or fewer earned runs allowed, and fifth such start of 2026.
• It was also his fourth start of the year with five or more strikeouts.
FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH
• Through 35 games, 44% of Baylor's total plate appearances have been taken by players with less than 55 career PA's entering the 2026 season. True or redshirt freshmen account for 33% of the team's total plate appearances.
• That group also accounts for 44% of the team's hits, including 34% from true or redshirt freshmen.
• 48% of Baylor's hits have come from players who have previously redshirted in their careers.
• 42% of Baylor's IP this season have been thrown by players who have thrown less than five career innings at the Div. I level.
• Baylor has nine true freshmen on its 2026 roster and an additional four redshirt freshmen.
• This year, 19 Bears have made their Baylor debuts (9 hitters, 10 pitchers), including 10 true or redshirt freshmen.
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