Teams combine for record 13 hit batters
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP)
Juuuuust a bit inside................
TCU and Baylor pitchers combined for a rather painful NCAA single-game record by hitting 13 batters with pitches Tuesday night.
Horned Frogs pitchers matched the record of 10 by one team, but they still won 9-4. Three TCU batters also were hit by pitches.
"It was ugly, it was just an ugly game," Baylor head coach Steve Smith said in a report on the school's website. "It's hard to watch some of what we do, particularly on the mound. This was not a hard game to pitch, the wind is blowing in the batters' faces, and it's just not that hard."
Some lowlights:
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP)
Juuuuust a bit inside................
TCU and Baylor pitchers combined for a rather painful NCAA single-game record by hitting 13 batters with pitches Tuesday night.
Horned Frogs pitchers matched the record of 10 by one team, but they still won 9-4. Three TCU batters also were hit by pitches.
"It was ugly, it was just an ugly game," Baylor head coach Steve Smith said in a report on the school's website. "It's hard to watch some of what we do, particularly on the mound. This was not a hard game to pitch, the wind is blowing in the batters' faces, and it's just not that hard."
Some lowlights:
- There were more batters hit by pitches than hits (12).
- There were also a combined 11 walks in the game that took 3 hours, 53 minutes to play.
- Baylor leadoff batter Nathan Orf was hit by three different pitchers.
- TCU starter Brandon Finnegan threw 4-2/3 innings of no-hit ball, but hit six batters.
