Oklahoma Baseball: Sooners Decimate Kansas in Series Opener

An excellent technique to return to convention motion.

After a five-game stretch away from the Large 12, Oklahoma bought again to league play on Friday night time opening up a three-game weekend set with Kansas.

The Sooners would get the collection off on the suitable foot hammering the Jayhawks 15-2 at Hoglund Ballpark in Lawrence, KS.

Getting the Sport 1 beginning nod was left-hander Jake Bennett, who would flip in a really high quality outing towards KU.

Bennett labored six rock stable innings permitting simply two runs (one unearned) and 5 hits whereas putting out seven Kansas hitters.

Oklahoma bought the scoring began within the third with the younger Max McGwire ripping a ball over the left subject fence for his second dwelling run of the yr.

The Sooners then prolonged their lead the next body by putting for 3 runs within the fourth because of pricey defensive miscues by the Jayhawks.

After a Jimmy Crooks sacrifice fly scored a run, Diego Muniz and Cade Horton would each rating runs that might go in as unearned because of a defensive error.

The Jayhawks would seemingly make it a sport within the fifth by scoring two runs to slice the OU lead in half at 4-2, however the contest wouldn’t stay shut for lengthy.

The Sooners went for 3 runs proper again within the sixth with RBIs from Crooks, McGwire and Trent Brown to carry a commanding 7-2 lead heading into the late innings.

The seemingly always-hot Blake Robertson bought in on the enjoyable within the seventh, connecting on an RBI single to increase the benefit to 8-2.

The Oklahoma offense wasn’t accomplished there, because the OU bats plated 4 extra runs within the eighth on an RBI single from Peyton Graham and a two-run double from Robertson – who later scored on a wild pitch. 

Graham and Robertson nonetheless weren’t completed as they continued the onslaught within the ninth with Graham ripping a two-run triple adopted by Robertson knocking him in to balloon the Oklahoma lead all the best way out to 15-2. 

Jaret Godman then escaped a bases loaded jam within the ninth to place the ending touches on the blowout win. 

The victory strikes Oklahoma to 10 video games over .500 on the yr at 23-13 and again to even in Large 12 play at 5-5.

The center sport of the collection will happen at midday Saturday in Lawrence after being moved up from the beforehand scheduled 2 p.m. resulting from impending inclement climate within the space.