Oklahoma baseball: Bedlam a Sooner bummer
By Chip Rouse
Playing at home for the final time this season — and on Mother’s Day — wasn’t enough to secure an Oklahoma baseball win, as Oklahoma State rallied late to earn a 10-7 victory and win the 2019 Bedlam baseball series over the Sooners.
The Sooners (31-20, 9-12) squandered leads of 4-1 and 5-4 on Sunday, allowing Oklahoma State to score four times in the top half of the eighth and once more in the ninth to salt away a come-from-behind win.
Oklahoma has now lost five of seven Big 12 series this season, with one series remaining, at Texas this weekend.
Oklahoma State came out firing right out of the gate in the series opener on Friday in Tulsa. Back-to-back-to-back solo home runs in the top of the first put Oklahoma back 3-0, and the Sooners were never able to overcome the deficit. Cowboys’ starter Jenson Elliott went the distance, allowing just one Sooner run on five hits in a 5-1 win. Four of OSU’s five runs came on four home runs.
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Junior Nathan Wiles pitched into the seventh inning for Oklahoma, giving up three earned runs on seven hits, but was tagged with the loss, his third of the season to go along with seven wins.
The venue switched to Bricktown Ballpark in Oklahoma City for Saturday’s game. A run-scoring single by catcher Justin Mitchell, his third hit of the game, scored Tanner Tredaway from second base to give the Sooners a walk-off 3-2 win over their in-state rivals. The dramatic victory enabled Oklahoma to snap a four-game losing streak and get its first win over Oklahoma State in the last 10 tries.
Designated hitter Brady Lindsly, third baseman Brylie Ware, left fielder Jordan Vujovich and Tredaway accounted for eight of the Sooners’ nine hits between them in Sunday’s rubber game of the series. Each had two hits. One of the hits by Vujovich was his first career home run.
Southpaw Levi Prater started Sunday’s game for OU. He pitched the first four innings before giving up the mound to freshman Ben Abram, who gave up three runs and four hits in 3 1/3 innings of relief and was charged with the loss.
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The Sooners will be in Austin, Texas, this weekend to face Red River rival Texas on the final weekend of the regular season.