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BAYLOR BEARS (18-13, 7-5 Big 12) Location: Waco, Texas Conference/Affiliation: Big 12 Head Coach: Mitch Thompson (Fort Hays St., 1988) Roster | Stats | Game Notes (PDF) |
BAYLOR (18-13, 7-5) at UT ARLINGTON (13-17, 2-1) April 7, 2026 • 6:00 p.m. CT Arlington, Texas • Clay Gould Ballpark (1,600) LIVE STATS: BaylorBears.com/Stats WATCH: ESPN+ LISTEN: ESPN Central Texas 1660 AM/92.3 FM Talent: Derek Smith, Tom Barfield Baylor Social Media:    |
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UT ARLINGTON MAVERICKS (13-17, 2-1 WAC) Location: Arlington, Texas Conference/Affiliation: WAC Head Coach: Mike Trapasso (Oklahoma State, 1987) Roster | Stats |
STORYLINES
LEADING OFF
• Baylor Baseball hits the road for a full week of away games, starting Tuesday at UT Arlington before its first flight trip of the season to Cincinnati for a three-game set against the Bearcats.
• BU has won six of its last eight ballgames, including five of its last six Big 12 contests after a weekend sweep at Houston and taking two of three over BYU this past weekend in Waco.
• Baylor is 7-1 in series openers so far in 2026 and has won each of its last six series-opening contests.
• This is the first time since 2021 that BU has won four-straight series openers in Big 12 play.
• The Bears are 6-0 this year in games when redshirt junior RHP Lucas Davenport starts.
• Baylor has turned 27 double plays in 31 games, which ranks third in the Big 12 and 25th 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.
MATCHING UP AGAINST THE MAVERICKS
• Baylor is 93-35 all-time against UT Arlington and 4-0 against the Mavericks under fourth-year head coach Mitch Thompson.
• BU has won each of its last six matchups against UTA, dating back to April 6, 2021, when current BU Director of Operations Darin Thomas was the head coach of the Mavs.
• The Bears are 7-4 this season against fellow teams from the state of Texas.
• BU is 4-3 in midweek contests this year, 31-14 in such games during the Thompson Era, and has won 20 of its last 24 such games.
• Former Mavericks Tyce Armstrong and Cade Dodson will return to their old stomping grounds to face their old team, while former BU assistant coach Mike Taylor, former catcher Zach Mazoch and former RHP Danny Valadez will oppose the Bears.
PROBABLE STARTING PITCHERS
• Tues. April 7 • 6:00 p.m. CT • RHP Cayden Baker (2-2, 8.80 ERA) vs. RHP Dylan Skolfield (0-4, 10.47 ERA)
STACKING W'S
• Baylor won its second-straight Big 12 series after taking two of three from BYU last weekend, including the series opener on Thursday and rubber match in Saturday's series finale.
• The Bears have now won back-to-back Big 12 series for the first time since 2024 (vs. Cincinnati, at BYU).
• Saturday's win marked BU's first in a rubber match so far this season and its sixth in a Big 12 series under Thompson.
• BU has won the series opener in four-straight Big 12 series, its longest such streak since 2021.
• Baylor's series sweep at Houston was the first road sweep by any team in Big 12 play so far this season.
SWIPING RIGHT (ON THE BASES)
• Through 31 games, the Bears have stolen 55 bases, the most by a BU team at this point in a season since 2011 (59).
• Baylor has stolen five or more bases four times in 2026, and have stolen multiple bases in 14 games this year.
• In Sunday's series finale at Houston, BU stole eight bases, their most in a single game since May 16, 2006, vs. Dallas Baptist. Eight stolen bases is just one shy of the program's all-time single-game record.
SOLID STARTERS
• Senior LHP Ethan Calder and redshirt junior RHP Lucas Davenport have been sensational lately, as the duo led the Bears' rotation to a combined 17.1 innings of work at Houston, a season high.
• It was the first time since March 3-5, 2023, against Youngstown State that BU had three starters each go 5+ IP.
• Calder followed up his seven-inning performance with a season-high nine strikeouts and six solid frames against BYU, allowing just one run on six hits without allowing a walk.
• Calder surpassed the 200-career innings mark, becoming the first Bear since Tyler Thomas (2018-2022) to do so.
• Davenport fanned a career-high 12 batters in the series-opening win against the Cougars on Thursday night.
STREAKING SANDERS
• Redshirt junior shortstop Travis Sanders carries a 34-game on-base streak into Tuesday night's game at UT Arlington, dating back to the 2025 season.
• Sanders' streak is the 8th-longest on-base streak on Baylor's modern era (since 2003) leaderboard.
• Sanders became the first Bear in three seasons to be walked four times in a single game when he did so on Sunday vs. BYU.
FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH
• Through 31 games, 45% 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 45% of the team's hits, including 34% from true or redshirt freshmen.
• 50% of Baylor's hits have come from players who have previously redshirted in their careers.
• 43% 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.
A LOOK AT THE SCHEDULE METRICS
• Through 31 games, Baylor own's the nations No. 14 Strength of Schedule (WarrenNolan.com)
• BU has faced seven ranked opponents for a total of nine games, and five of the top-19 RPI teams at this point in the year (No. 3 Texas, No. 6 Oregon State, No. 10 Ole Miss, No. 16 Southern Miss, and No. 19 West Virginia).
• Baylor currently sits at No. 43 in the RPI entering the Tuesday night contest at UT Arlington.
• Baylor will play a combined 22 games against 11 NCAA Tournament teams in 2026, including three conference champions from a year ago.
• 14 30-game winners headline the 2026 campaign, including six teams that won 40 or more games last season.
• 52% of this year's schedule features opponents that finished 2025 with a top-75 RPI.
THE TYCE IS RIGHT
• Redshirt senior 1B Tyce Armstrong ranks tied for fifth in the Big 12 with 12 home runs and 11th in the league with 38 RBIs.
• Armstrong's 12 home runs mark the 11th time since 2012 that a Bear has hit double-digit homers in a single season.
• This is the second time under fourth-year head coach Mitch Thompson that a Bear has hit 10+ home runs, as Wesley Jordan hit 10 in 2025.
• Baylor's school record for home runs in a season is 21, set by Charley Carter in 1998.
• Armstrong sits four blasts shy of cracking the top-10 on BU's single-season leaderboard.
• Baylor has not had two players hit 10+ home runs in the same season since 2021, when Andy Thomas (11) and Jared McKenzie (10) each did so.
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