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Baseball Falls To No. 3 LMU 3-1 at Los Angeles Regional

May 31, 2019
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LOS ANGELES – The No. 2-seeded Bears fell 3-1 in their opening game against No. 3-seed Loyola Marymount at the Los Angeles Regional Friday afternoon at Jackie Robinson Stadium.

Baylor (34-18) was unable to string together hits, tallying just four on the day and only scoring once. The Bears had two baserunners in the second inning, but didn’t have more than one aboard in any other inning.

LMU (33-23) manufactured a run in the top of the second to open the scoring, but the Bears answered back with a run in the bottom half to even the score as Davion Downey picked up an RBI with a groundout that scored Andy Thomas.

Things were tied at 1-1 until the top of the sixth, when LMU snapped Jimmy Winston’s streak of 10-consecutive batters retired with a walk and two hits to take a 3-1 lead.

Daniel Caruso came on in relief of Winston and worked two scoreless innings before turning the ball over to Kyle Hill. Hill pitched a scoreless top of the ninth, but the Bears were unable to put together a rally offensively in the bottom half.

Baylor’s bats were stifled by Lions starter Codie Paiva, who threw 7.2 innings with just one run allowed on four hits. Paiva (8-5) earned the win while Winston (5-3) took the loss. LMU’s Nick Frasso picked up his ninth save of the season with a hitless 1.1 innings pitched.

NOTES

*Baylor is making its third-straight NCAA Regional appearance for the first time since a stretch of four-consecutive appearances between 2009-12. This is the 21st regional selection in program history. 

 

*Baylor is 44-44 all-time in the NCAA Championship, 37-31 in regionals and 23-17 in neutral regional games.

 

*For the fourth-consecutive time in regionals and third-straight year, the Bears will need to come back from losing their opening game and fight through the elimination bracket.

 

*Nick Loftin extended his hit streak to 12 games.

 

*Shea Langeliers caught a baserunner trying to steal and has now thrown out 14 of 24 potential base stealers in 2019.

 

*Jimmy Winston made his 11th start of the year and went six innings with just three runs allowed on four hits. It was his first quality start since April 27 at TCU (7.0 IP, 2 R, 6 H).

 

*Daniel Caruso made his 25th appearance of the season and threw two scoreless innings. It was his 19th scoreless outing of the season and seventh consecutive.

 

*Kyle Hill made his 23rd appearance of the season and pitched a scoreless inning.

 

*Hill is now tied for fourth on Baylor’s all-time career relief appearances leaderboard (82).


STAT OF THE DAY
12 – Nick Loftin extended his hit streak to 12 games, which is now the longest active streak on the team.

QUOTE OF THE DAY
On today’s game…

"I’m going to tip my hat to Codie Paiva, I thought he did a heck of a job out there. Just pounded the zone with a lot of different pitches, continually put pressure on our offense to get something going. I thought we swung the bat well in a lot of different capacities, but couldn’t get a run across the board.”

- Baylor head coach Steve Rodriguez

WHAT'S NEXT
The Bears will take on the loser of No. 1 UCLA and No. 4 Omaha in an elimination game Saturday at 4 p.m. CT/2 p.m. PT.

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Baseball Falls To No. 3 LMU 3-1 at Los Angeles Regional

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CTbruin
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In reply to BellCountyBear • 5:35p, 5/31/19
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Gotta swing the damned bat boys! Embarrassing.


Very seldom do I agree with you. But I do on this one.
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5:37p, 5/31/19
Aggies down 8-1 in 9th.
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5:40p, 5/31/19
Down 3-1 going into bottom of 9th.
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5:47p, 5/31/19
Absolutely weak. Are they being coached to take on every first pitch? See y'all in the Fall.
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5:48p, 5/31/19
Really pathetic, embarrassing loss to the equivalent of an average mid-week opponent. Absolute worst time of the season for the entire lineup to be in a hitting slump.
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5:48p, 5/31/19
We lose 3-1.
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5:50p, 5/31/19
Steve Smith - Part 2
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In reply to DanaDane • 5:58p, 5/31/19
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Steve Smith - Part 2


Steve Smith went to playoffs 17 times. And did well. Best baseball coach in Baylor history. Don't get the need to bash him. I am thankful he came to Baylor and did what he did. He's a good man.
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In reply to DanaDane • 6:36p, 5/31/19
DanaDane said:
Steve Smith - Part 2
Today was bad and the past two weeks have by and large stunk, but come on - Rod has a long, long way to go to even start getting close to Steve Smith levels of post season chokeage. Now if WE had been ahead 3-1 in the 9th with 2 outs and nobody on base and proceeded to still find a way to lose it, you could maybe draw a one time comparison to a typical post season result for one of Smith's teams.
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In reply to CTbruin • 6:42p, 5/31/19
CTbruin said:
DanaDane said:
Steve Smith - Part 2


Steve Smith went to playoffs 17 times. And did well. Best baseball coach in Baylor history. Don't get the need to bash him. I am thankful he came to Baylor and did what he did. He's a good man.
I agree. I don't get it. Steve did much for Baylor.
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In reply to Johnny Bear • 7:33p, 5/31/19
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DanaDane said:
Steve Smith - Part 2
Today was bad and the past two weeks have by and large stunk, but come on - Rod has a long, long way to go to even start getting close to Steve Smith levels of post season chokeage. Now if WE had been ahead 3-1 in the 9th with 2 outs and nobody on base and proceeded to still find a way to lose it, you could maybe draw a one time comparison to a typical post season result for one of Smith's teams.
1-5 regionals thus far. You're right...he does have a long way to go to get to Smith's level.
http://files.libertyfund.org/files/112/Read_0202_EBk_v6.0.pdf
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In reply to Johnny Bear • 9:13p, 5/31/19
Johnny Bear said:
DanaDane said:
Steve Smith - Part 2
Today was bad and the past two weeks have by and large stunk, but come on - Rod has a long, long way to go to even start getting close to Steve Smith levels of post season chokeage. Now if WE had been ahead 3-1 in the 9th with 2 outs and nobody on base and proceeded to still find a way to lose it, you could maybe draw a one time comparison to a typical post season result for one of Smith's teams.
Well, the conference was ours to lose with a series remaining, and we haven't won a game since. That is a whole new level of pathetic.

EDIT: We beat OU.
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In reply to BUBBFAN • 9:23p, 5/31/19
BUBBFAN said:
CTbruin said:
DanaDane said:
Steve Smith - Part 2


Steve Smith went to playoffs 17 times. And did well. Best baseball coach in Baylor history. Don't get the need to bash him. I am thankful he came to Baylor and did what he did. He's a good man.
I agree. I don't get it. Steve did much for Baylor.
Agreed. Steve did much for Baylor Baseball and Baylor. Good man and good coach.
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9:59p, 5/31/19
I don't want to listen to anything about injuries. It is a part of the game. We played a very weak schedule, we played terrible against Tech and god awful against Ok State. The Big 12 tournament was embarrassing. I don't blame the players. These guys had the deck stacked against them and came out every night. Extremely disappointed in the coaching staff. They need to take a long hard look for next season because this thing is over. On a side note, it was a privilege to be in school while Steve Smith was the head coach. I lived through Kevin Steele and Guy Morris and unfortunately was there for Dave Bliss. Steve Smith gave this university hope and his teams played hard.



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In reply to pilgrim • 10:29p, 5/31/19
pilgrim said:
BUBBFAN said:
CTbruin said:
DanaDane said:
Steve Smith - Part 2


Steve Smith went to playoffs 17 times. And did well. Best baseball coach in Baylor history. Don't get the need to bash him. I am thankful he came to Baylor and did what he did. He's a good man.
I agree. I don't get it. Steve did much for Baylor.
Agreed. Steve did much for Baylor Baseball and Baylor. Good man and good coach.


Agree with all of this, but think Steve Smith stayed just a couple seasons too long, and lost his eye for recruiting good talent. Steve Rod has shown the current ability to recruit good talent, and I think things will remain on the upward trend in the foreseeable future. This team simply lost focus at the plate, and our pitching wasn't good enough to carry us.
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BUbackerinET said:


Agree with all of this, but think Steve just stayed a couple seasons too long, and lost his eye for recruiting good talent. Steve has shown the current ability to recruit good talent, and I think things will remain on the upward trend in the foreseeable future. This team simply lost focus at the plate, and our pitching wasn't good enough to carry us.
I liked Steve a lot. He didn't lose his recruiting eye. He fired his recruiter. Go back also and check out the Brett Doe incident. And Steve began to see himself more as a GM than as a coach. I think when he really lost his passion was when Ryan went down injured.
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BUbackerinET said:


Agree with all of this, but think Steve just stayed a couple seasons too long, and lost his eye for recruiting good talent. Steve has shown the current ability to recruit good talent, and I think things will remain on the upward trend in the foreseeable future. This team simply lost focus at the plate, and our pitching wasn't good enough to carry us.
I liked Steve a lot. He didn't lose his recruiting eye. He fired his recruiter. Go back also and check out the Brett Doe incident. And Steve began to see himself more as a GM than as a coach. I think when he really lost his passion was when Ryan went down injured.


We can agree to disagree.
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