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Oklahoma Baseball: Sooners Shut Out K-State 3-0 in Series Finale

By Chip Rouse

Jan 2, 2017; New Orleans, LA, USA; A member of the against the Oklahoma Sooners Ruf/Neks runs the field with flag after a Sooners score against the Auburn Tigers in the fourth quarter of the 2017 Sugar Bowl at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome. Mandatory Credit: Derick E. Hingle-USA TODAY Sports
Jan 2, 2017; New Orleans, LA, USA; A member of the against the Oklahoma Sooners Ruf/Neks runs the field with flag after a Sooners score against the Auburn Tigers in the fourth quarter of the 2017 Sugar Bowl at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome. Mandatory Credit: Derick E. Hingle-USA TODAY Sports /
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Home runs by Austin O’Brien and Brylie Ware led the Sooners in a 3-0 shutout win in the rubber game Sunday of their three-game weekend series at Kansas State, fueling Oklahoma baseball to its second consecutive series win in the Big 12 and fifth series win in the conference this season.

Three of OU’s five Big 12 series wins this season have come on the road.

Senior first baseman O’Brien clubbed a solo round-tripper in the top of the fourth inning to put the Sooners out in front 2-0, and sophomore designated hitter Ware launched a solo shot to dead center in the ninth to cap the Oklahoma scoring.

O’Brien’s fourth-inning home run was his second of the series, and he was two for four at the plate on Sunday, giving him 12 multi-hit games in 2017 and 39 in his career.

Starter Devon Perez went six and two-thirds for the Sooners, the longest outing of his career. The junior right-hander allowed just five hits while striking out eight Kansas State hitters in posting his fifth victory of the season against two losses.

Senior center fielder Ben Hollas was hit by a pitch in the fifth inning on Sunday, extending his consecutive-game on-base streak to 24 games.

Oklahoma recorded eight hits in Sunday’s victory, one more than Kansas State, but the Wildcats left 11 runners on base to just five for the Sooners.

The series win over K-State boosts Oklahoma’s Big 12 record to 10-8 and gives the Sooners four wins in their last five games and an overall season mark of 32-17.

The 3-0 shutout of the Wildcats is the Sooners’ fifth of the season. It also marks the 12th consecutive time, going back to the 2016 season, that Oklahoma has prevailed in the deciding third game of a series.

The Sooners are back home next weekend for their final home stand of the 2017 season. Big 12-leader TCU (35-11, 15-6) will be the opponent. The Horned Frogs swept their three-game series against Texas this weekend. The Longhorns are the only Big 12 team, out of the six Oklahoma has played in 2017, that have won the series against the Sooners.

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