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No. 5 TCU Tops Washington State In Extra Innings - TCU Athletics
FORT WORTH – Luke Boyers' two-out, bases-loaded single in the 12th gave No. 5 TCU an 8-7 walk-off victory over Washington State Tuesday night at Lupton Stadium.
GoFrogs: No. 5 TCU Tops Washington State In Extra Innings
FORT WORTH – Luke Boyers' two-out, bases-loaded single in the 12th gave No. 5 TCU an 8-7 walk-off victory over Washington State Tuesday night at Lupton Stadium. Zachary Cawyer turned in three scoreless innings of relief to get the win.
The Rundown
TCU took advantage of its only opportunity in extra frames to walk-off with the win. Sam Myers beat out an infield single to open the 12th. Back-to-back base hits from Peyton Chatagnier and Karson Bowen had the bases-loaded with nobody out. The Cougars got two outs but could not get the third as Luke Boyers delivered the walk-off base hit to left.
Zachary Cawyer (3-0) took over in the 10th. He allowed a couple of base runners and a pair of wild pitches that had the go-ahead run on third with two outs. He got a fly out to end the inning. Cawyer ultimately retired eight of the last nine batters he faced to earn the win.
The Cougars opened up the scoring with a lead-off home run in the first. TCU scored twice in the third to take a 2-1 lead. Chatagnier tripled and tied the game on a Bowen sacrifice fly. With two outs, Kurtis Byrne walked and later scored on a Payton Tolle base hit.
TCU and Washington State traded runs to make it a 4-3 ballgame. Anthony Silva delivered the two-run single for TCU in the fourth. Washington State answered with two in the fifth. Louis Rodriguez took over and left the tying run at third.
Three more runs crossed the plate in the bottom of the fifth as the Horned Frogs built a 7-3 lead. Chatagnier drove in the first run of the inning with a sacrifice fly. Singles from Bowen and Byrne also drove in runs.
Washington State forced extra innings with four runs in the ninth. Ben Abeldt was able to work out of trouble as he left the bases loaded, setting up extra innings.
Ben Hampton started and allowed three runs on six hits. He walked one and struck out five over 4 1/3 innings. Rodriguez fanned three in 1 2/3 innings. Chase Hoover and Hunter Hodges worked scoreless innings.
Stat of the Game:
6 - Six of TCU's eight runs scored came with two outs.
Notes:
- TCU's 8-0 start to the season is its best start to a season since the 1994 campaign.
- It's the fifth time in program history the Horned Frogs have opened the season 8-0 (1967, 1975, 1985 and 1994).
- TCU played its first extra-inning game of the season.
- TCU improved to 5-1 in extra inning games with Kirk Saarloos as head coach.
- TCU allowed a first-inning run for the second time this season.
- TCU tallied double-digit hits (16) for the fifth time this season.
- TCU played flawless defense for the fourth time this season.
- TCU registered double-digit strikeouts (17) for the fourth time this season.
- The 17 strikeouts match a season-high set on opening night against FGCU (2/16)
- Peyton Chatagnier tallied his fourth multi-hit game of the season and the 49th of his career.
- Karson Bowen picked up his fourth multi-hit game of the year and the 28th of his career.
- Bowen registered his third multi-RBI game of the season and the 16th of his career.
- Anthony Silva collected his fifth multi-hit game of the year and the 25th of his career.
- Silva registered his second multi-RBI game of the season and the 16th of his career.
- Ryder Robinson collected his first career multi-hit game.
- Sam Myers registered his second career multi-hit game.
With the win, TCU improves to 8-0 on the season. TCU wraps up its season-opening nine game homestand Wednesday night when it hosts Arizona. Game time is set for 6 p.m. The contest will be televised on Big 12 Now on ESPN+.
