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GoFrogs: TCU Blanks Kansas State, 12-0
FORT WORTH – Payton Tolle and Andrew Mosiello combined to hold Kansas State to five hits and struck out 13 to lead TCU to a 12-0 series-opening victory Friday night at Lupton Stadium. Sam Myers and Ryder Robinson combined for six hits and scored seven runs to lead the offense.
The Rundown
Anthony Silva worked a lead-off walk in the first and scored the first run of the game on a Kurtis Byrne sacrifice fly for a 1-0 lead.
Back-to-back four run innings for the Horned Frogs broke the game open. Luke Boyers led off the second with a home run to right. A two-out, bases-loaded single from Logan Maxwell pushed the lead to 4-0. Byrne collected his second RBI of the game for a 5-0 lead. The third inning featured RBIs for Silva, Karson Bowen, Maxwell and Byrne.
Sam Myers' one-out triple led to another TCU run as he scored on a Ryder Robinson base hit. Peyton Chatagnier's double followed to make it an 11-0 ballgame. Robinson scored his fourth run of the game in the sixth on an error after leading off the inning with a double to account for the final score.
The pitching duo of Payton Tolle and Andrew Mosiello battled base runners throughout the game. Kansas State ultimately stranded 12 base runners in the game. Tolle (5-3) tossed five shutout innings, allowing three hits, walking four and striking out seven. Mosiello finished the game with four scoreless, allowing two hits, walking four and striking out six to earn his first save at TCU.
Stat of the Game:
0 - TCU tallied its fourth shutout of the season. Payton Tolle has been the starting pitcher for three of the shutouts.
Notes:
- TCU out-hit its opponent for the 20th time this season.
- TCU tallied double-digit hits (17) for the 16th time this season.
- TCU scored double-digit runs for the eighth time this season
- TCU scored first for the 28th time this season.
- TCU scored a first inning run for the 15th time this season.
- TCU drew more walks (7) than it struck out (6) for the 11th time this season.
- TCU homered in a game for the 17th time this year.
- TCU pitchers recorded double-digit strikeouts (13) for the 25th time this season.
- TCU turned one double play in the game.
- Karson Bowen collected his ninth multi-hit game of the year and the 33rd of his career.
- Logan Maxwell posted his 11th multi-hit game of the season and the 20th of his career.
- Maxwell tallied his third multi-RBI game of the year and the 12th of his career.
- Kurtis Byrne notched his sixth multi-RBI game of the year and the 32nd of his career.
- Jack Arthur tallied his second career multi-hit game.
- Luke Boyers hit his fifth home run of the season and the 19th of his career.
- Boyers registered his 10th multi-hit game of the season and the 49th of his career.
- Sam Myers registered his ninth career multi-hit game.
- Ryder Robinson has reached safely in seven straight games.
- Robinson tallied his sixth career multi-hit game.
- Andrew Mosiello collected his first save of the season and the fourth of his career.
- Mosiello matched his career-high with six strikeouts.
With the victory, TCU improves to 25-15 on the season and 9-13 in Big 12 play. The Horned Frogs and Kansas State will play a doubleheader on Saturday starting at 1 p.m. There will be 45 minutes between games. Both contests will be televised on Big 12 Now on ESPN+.
