GoFrogs: TCU Falls To K-State in Big 12 Tournament

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TCU Falls To K-State in Big 12 Tournament - TCU Athletics

SURPRISE, Ariz. – Kansas State scored early en route to eliminating TCU from the Big 12 Tournament with a 9-4 win Wednesday night at Surprise Stadium. Jack B...

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TCU Falls To K-State in Big 12 Tournament​

Bell records two hits in the contest

Box Score

SURPRISE, Ariz. – Kansas State scored early en route to eliminating TCU from the Big 12 Tournament with a 9-4 win Wednesday night at Surprise Stadium. Jack Bell had two of TCU's five hits in the game.

The Rundown
Kansas State raced out to a 5-0 lead after three innings of play. The Wildcats plated two runs in the first on a trio of hits and three more on three hits in the third. The lead grew to 7-0 win two more runs in the fourth.

TCU got on the scoreboard in the fifth. Preston Gamster led off the frame with a double and scored on a Noah Franco double. An error in the outfield had Franco at third with nobody out. Rob Liddington followed with a base hit up the middle to pull the Frogs within five, 7-2.

The Wildcats got the two runs back in the top of the sixth to regain their seven run advantage, 9-2.

The Horned Frogs had a golden opportunity to get back in the game in the seventh. An error, a walk and a hit batter had the bases loaded with nobody. Cole Cramer reached on an error to drive in a run. Lucas Franco worked a bases-loaded walk with one to make it a 9-4 game. But the Frogs would leave them loaded as Kansas State worked out of the jam.

Tommy LaPour (1-3) took the loss after allowing three runs on four hits in two innings of work. He struck out two and walked one. Mason Brassfield struck out four, but allowed four runs on three hits and walked three. Trever Baumler went 2 2/3 innings, allowed a pair of runs on five hits. Noah Franco gave the Frogs 1 1/3 scoreless innings of relief, while Tanner Sagousperetired all three batters he faced.

Stat of the Game:
10 – TCU left 10 runners on base in the game.

Notes:
• TCU fell to 31-17 all-time in the Big 12 Tournament.
• TCU is now 60-38 all-time in conference tournaments.
• TCU failed to win a tournament game for just the fifth time in program history.
• TCU was outhit in a game for the 23rd time this season.
• TCU turned one double play in the game.
• Nolan Traeger has reached safely in 10 straight games.
• Jack Bell has reached safely in seven straight games.
• Bell tallied his 11th multi-hit game of the year and the 18th of his career.
• Noah Franco has driven in a run in three straight games.

Next Up:
With the loss, TCU falls to 33-21 on the season. The Horned Frogs will await their postseason fate which will be revealed during the NCAA Selection Show set to air at 11 a.m. on ESPN2 on Monday, May 25.

 

[Frogs1983]

Saarloos era at TCU has been mediocrity personified after his first year. Remember when TCU baseball was really good? Not in the past 3-4 years.

Time for a new HC, program fresh start.

 

[Nolaeer]

Why did TCU not throw Davis v K-State? Saving him for WVU does nothing if you dont win game 1?

 

[NewFrogFan]

Why did TCU not throw Davis v K-State? Saving him for WVU does nothing if you dont win game 1?

I wondered the same. Lots of weird decisions this year about pitching by a coach that was a pitcher.

 

[Spike]

Why did TCU not throw Davis v K-State? Saving him for WVU does nothing if you dont win game 1?

I pondered this. Figured we needed to beat KSU w/ La Pour n the Friday night crew to have a real shot at winning the tournament. Not sure we can beat much of anyone w/o Davis or James.

 

[LisaLT]

Such a disappointing season. TCU baseball needs to do some soul searching to figure out how to get back on track. We've come to expect a lot for our baseball program. It has been slipping each year.

 

[NewFrogFan]

Such a disappointing season. TCU baseball needs to do some soul searching to figure out how to get back on track. We've come to expect a lot for our baseball program. It has been slipping each year.

Make the TP the exception, recruit HS players that can play as freshmen. I think many teams have realized this year there are too many TP busts.

 

[FrogBall09]

I pondered this. Figured we needed to beat KSU w/ La Pour n the Friday night crew to have a real shot at winning the tournament. Not sure we can beat much of anyone w/o Davis or James.

we didn't need to win the tournament - we needed to not get beat the first game. We are a bubble team for the post season but were in before the tourney started and are probably now out or maybe back to being the last 4 in and hoping there are not many surprise conference tournament winners to push us out of an at large.

But even a single win would have solidified our position - getting rolled by a bad Kstate team killed us.

That is the difference between Schloss and Loos - Schloss understood how the system worked and Loos just tries to coach baseball and hope it works out.

This year and 2024 show he is not the guy to lead a program at the level we should be at - no one in the B12 does less with more than we do currently.

 

[Strat Frog]

Saarloos era at TCU has been mediocrity personified after his first year. Remember when TCU baseball was really good? Not in the past 3-4 years.

Time for a new HC, program fresh start.

Completely agree. We have talent, but we are not producing. Let’s see if our AD has the cojones…

 

[bc puckett]

Completely agree. We have talent, but we are not producing. Let’s see if our AD has the cojones…

Think its more a matter of does he have the checkbook?

 

[Frog79]

This year and 2024 show he is not the guy to lead a program at the level we should be at - no one in the B12 does less with more than we do currently.

100% true, unfortunately.