Baseball team set for five-game home series
By Danny Gillham
Skiff Staff

The Horned Frog baseball team continued its up and down season with one win and two losses this past weekend. The team lost Friday to Southwest Texas 5-4, and then to Texas Tech on Saturday 5-1. TCU then bounced back from their three game losing streak to rout Southwest Texas on Sunday, 12-2.

Despite the 1-2 weekend record, head coach Lance Brown says that there are many positive things that the team can build from.

“We pitched pretty well, we were consistent and we played good defense all weekend,” Brown said.

The key item that really stood out was Sunday’s offensive performance. After scoring just five runs in two games, the Frogs put on a show, scoring 12 runs on 15 hits in their weekend rematch with Southwest Texas.

“We finally got some key hits,” Brown said. “We had been getting some men on base, but we would waste them.”

Brown said that instances like these are the little things that have been hurting them.
“Hitting is the least controllable part of the game,” Brown said. “It will come and go, but it’s what you do without hits. It takes bunting, and hitting a ground ball or getting a fly ball to get a runner in. You have to do those things, and so far we have not done those very well.”

Brown said that while the Texas Tech baseball team may not model an exact team that the Horned Frogs will play in Conference USA, certain components they bring should allow the team to prepare for what lies ahead in conference play.

“I know that Tech has a real good baseball program,” Brown said, “and they are going to have good pitching. The have four or five left-handed hitters, and they have good speed and good defense.”

Brown said he feels that in a three-game series with anyone in Conference USA, Texas Tech has the possibility of winning two of the three, and the quality of Texas Tech should help the Frogs.

Despite the threat of rain, Brown said the team has enough games to compensate for the loss of one and the field would be covered.

“We over-scheduled a game as we do every year,” Brown said. So if we lose one, we have enough games that we are okay.”

With those things to build on, the team begins five consecutive scheduled games at home with two games in two days against Texas Tech, starting today at 2:05 p.m.

Danny Gillham
d.r.gillham@student.tcu.edu

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