Black team wins the Series opener 3-0
By: Scott Lacefield - Texas Tech University
Updated: October 22, 2012
LUBBOCK, Texas -
The Texas Tech baseball program held the first game of its annual Red
& Black Series on Monday while the Black Team captured a 3-0 victory
over the Red Team at Dan Law Field at Rip Griffin Park.
Junior
right-handed pitcher Trey Masek struck out six in 3.1 innings while
freshman first baseman Eric Gutierrez drove in two runs with a single to
center field in
his first at-bat of the series to give the Black Team all the run
support it would need.
Masek
and five relief pitchers - including freshman Matt Withrow who earned
the one-inning save - combined for the shutout while collecting 12
strikeouts and allowing
eight base hits.
Red Team starting pitcher Corey Taylor took the loss allowing three runs on four hits in 2.2 innings with one strikeout.
Devon
Conley led off the bottom of the first with a single to center field
and shortstop Tim Proudfoot followed with a single through the left
side. Gutierrez drove
in both Conley and Proudfoot with a single before freshman Tyler Neslony
scored Gutierrez for the third and final run of the game with a double
to right field.
Gutierrez
went 2-for-3 with a stolen base and also reached base with a
hit-by-pitch and Conley also finished with a pair of hits going 2-for-3
with a walk.
Senior
right-handed pitcher Jerad McCrummen (1.2 IP, 2 SO), freshman
right-handed pitcher Johnathon Tripp (2.0 IP, 2 SO) and Withrow (1.0 IP,
2 SO) all finished with
multiple strikeouts in relief.
The
Red Team was led on the mound by junior left-handed pitcher Andre
Wheeler who pitched 2.1 scoreless innings with four strikeouts. Junior
right-handed pitcher Heath
Herrington also worked two scoreless frames with two strikeouts and
sophomore right-handed pitcher Dominic Moreno struck out the side in a
scoreless eighth inning.
Sophomore
center fielder Brett Bell (2-for-4, SB) was the only Red Team player
with a multi-hit game while third baseman Bryant Burleson (1-for-4),
shortstop Jake
Barrios (1-for-3, BB), first baseman Blake Bass (1-for-4), designated
hitter Wade Stramp (1-for-4) and right fielder Conner Smith (1-for-4,
2B) all had base hits in the game.
The
annual Red & Black Series will continue a week from today with Game
2 scheduled for Monday, Oct. 29 with a 6:30 p.m. first pitch. The
series finale - Game 3 -
is set for Tuesday, Oct. 30 at 3 p.m. All games of the series will be
played at Dan Law Field at Rip Griffin Park and admission is free.
RED & BLACK SERIES GAME 1 NOTES:
BLACK TEAM
- Tallied four of the team's six base hits in the first inning.
-
With the bases loaded and two outs in the top of the fourth, 2B Alec
Humphreys robbed a base hit from Wade Stramp and saved at least two runs
with a diving stop
up the middle with a force at second base to end the Red Team scoring
threat.
- Trey Masek recorded five consecutive outs via strikeout from the first to third inning.
-
Four pitchers (McCrummen, Tripp, Bethard, Withrow) combined faced one
over the minimum (retiring 14-of-15 batters) from the third out in the
fifth inning to the
final out of the game in the ninth.
-
Humphreys reached base in three of his four at-bats with three straight
walks, including a nine-pitch walk in the bottom of the eighth inning.
- Batters 1-through-5 combined went 6-for-16 with three runs and three RBI.
RED TEAM
- Had at least one base hit in six of the nine innings.
- Seven of the nine players had at least one base hit.
- Left three runners on base in back-to-back innings (4th and 5th).
- Had the leadoff batter on base via a base hit in four of the first five innings of the game.
- Jarrard Poteete had back-to-back plate appearances with seven-pitch walks in the fourth and sixth innings.
-
Conner Smith hit perhaps the hardest ball of the game, a line-drive
double off the top of the left field wall to lead off the fifth inning.
