The BYU baseball staff had comebacks to tie in every of its different matchups towards Kansas on Thursday and Friday however dropped every of them.
Would Saturday afternoon be any totally different?
BYU’s Bryker Hurdsman hit an RBI double within the eighth inning to provide the Cougars their first lead of the collection, 4-3. Kansas’ Brady Ballinger hit a sac fly within the ninth to tie the sport 4-4.
After a scoreless ninth and 10th inning, Ryder Robinson walked it off with a solo homer to proper area within the 11th inning to provide the Cougars the comeback win, 5-4.
BYU coach Trent Pratt mentioned postgame that this was Robinson’s “first walk-off dwelling run of his life.”
Pratt added, “Give me a matter of time earlier than one thing good occurs for us. I believe we hit some balls laborious with guys on base, a bit of bit fortunate at instances, but it surely was good for him to have the ability to end the sport that means.”
Saturday evening’s win didn’t come with out some adversity.
Within the first sport, the Cougars discovered themselves down 6-0 via 4 innings and finally manufactured a comeback to tie the sport 6-6 within the sixth inning. The Cougars had been scoreless within the closing three innings, and Kansas scored three runs to take the primary sport 9-6.
Seeing Kansas rejoice its Massive 12 common season title on BYU’s dwelling area didn’t sit properly with the Cougars.
BYU hoped to rewrite the script going into Senior Evening, however the Cougars ended up seeing shadows from the earlier evening.
One other 6-0 deficit for BYU was what it needed to climb. With six innings down and three to go, the Cougars wanted to behave quick.
A 2-RBI triple from Crew McChesney and a sacrifice fly from Tua Wolfgramm minimize the Jayhawks’ result in 6-3. Easton Jones hit a three-run dwelling run within the eighth inning to tie the sport at 6-6.
However a Kansas dwelling run within the high of the ninth was simply what they wanted for the 7-6 win.
Up subsequent, Massive 12 Match
Saturday evening’s win offers BYU some much-needed momentum going into the Massive 12 Match in Shock, Arizona.
“Hopefully this can give us some momentum going into the event subsequent week, and we will get scorching and get on a run subsequent week,” Pratt mentioned.
Utah didn’t give the Cougars the assistance they wanted by shedding to Baylor, 11-10. A Utah win would have given BYU the No. 8 seed within the Massive 12 event.
That consequence means BYU would be the No. 9 seed within the Massive 12 baseball event towards No. 12 seed Texas Tech on Tuesday.