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BSB: No. 12 Bears look for sweep against Holy Cross Sunday

February 14, 2019
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• Bears welcome Holy Cross to Baylor Ballpark to open up play on the 115th season of Baylor Baseball. This is the first meeting in program history between Holy Cross and the Bears. 

• The Bears enter the 2019 season with the highest preseason rankings since they were ranked No. 8 to start the 2009 season. They are ranked No. 12 in the Perfect Game preseason rankings and No. 15 in the D1Baseball Rankings. 

• Projected Pitching Matchups

Fri., Feb. 15 • 6:35 p.m. CT • RHP Hayden Kettler vs. RHP Zane Hedaya

Sat., Feb 16 • 1:05 p.m. CT • LHP Tyler Thomas vs. RHP Liam Dvorak

Sat., Feb. 16 • 4:05 p.m. CT • LHP Cody Bradford vs. RHP Declan Cronin

Sun., Feb. 17 • 12:05 p.m. CT • RHP Anderson Needham vs. TBA

• Overall the Bears enter the 2019 season ranked in all the major preseason rankings. In addition to the No. 12 ranking by Perfect Game and No. 15 by D1Baseball, the Bears are No. 16 in the Baseball America poll, No. 16 in the NCBWA Poll, No. 18 in the USA Today Coaches Poll and No. 21 in the Collegiate Baseball Poll.

• The Bears are the preseason No. 2 pick in the Big 12 and earned two first place votes, collected 58 total points, behind No. 1 Texas Tech’s 61 points. The second place finish ties the highest in program history, first time since 2004 the Bears were picked second and fifth time in program history. 

• Baylor is 74-24 all-time in home openers, has won 6 of last 7 and 11 of last 13.

• Baylor is 62-34 all-time in season openers and has won 4 of last 5.

• Baylor returns 20 letterwinners after losing eight from the 2018 squad, including Preseason All-Big 12 selections Cody Bradford, Shea Langeliers, Davis Wendzel and Nick Loftin.

• Baylor welcomes 11 newcomers to the 2019 team. Seven of those are pitchers, including true freshmen in RHP Ryan Segner, RHP Anderson Needham, RHP Blake Helton, RHP Branson Wilson, sophomore RHP William Gilbert and junior junior college transfers LHP Paul Dickens and RHP Logan Freeman. One newcomer, Brooks Helmer is a two-way guy, first baseman in the field and a RHP on the mound. The Bears then have three position player newcomers in freshman infielder Ricky Martinez, freshman catcher Jake Walsh and junior college transfer outfielder/first baseman Mack Mueller. 

• Baylor returns all nine position starters, plus the entire pitching rotation from 2018. On the mount the Bears return 95 percent of their starts (55 of 58) from 2018 and 73 percent of their wins. 

• The Bears are coming off the 2018 season where they collected 37 wins (37-21), improving upon 2017’s 34 wins, the most since 2012. The Bears finished with 13 wins in Big 12 play (13-11), the most since 2013. 

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BSB: No. 12 Bears look for sweep against Holy Cross Sunday

9,150 Views | 31 Replies | Last: 5 yr ago by william
gobears20
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BellCountyBear
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Wasn't this first series originally supposed to be against Houston Baptist?
BaseballBear1108
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No that was last year.
BellCountyBear
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BaseballBear1108 said:

No that was last year.
That's right. I accidentally pulled up the 2018 schedule a couple of months ago.
ICT-Bear
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Interesting that our pre-season All-American pitcher is starting game 3. Kinda curious why that particular game instead of the opener.
BaseballBear1108
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He is coming off an arm injury. Only scheduled to throw 2-4 innings max.
ICT-Bear
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Ah that makes sense then.
william
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enough w the preliminaries.....

let's play balls!

- BUmma

{ sipping coffee }

Brian Ethridge
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william said:

enough w the preliminaries.....

let's play balls!

- BUmma

{ sipping coffee }




Are you saying Jesus can't hit a curve ball?
william
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Brian Ethridge said:

william said:

enough w the preliminaries.....

let's play balls!

- BUmma

{ sipping coffee }




Are you saying Jesus can't hit a curve ball?
I have no idea what I am saying and haven't for 19 years.

Let's get the game started.

- KKM

https://baylorbears.com/watch/?Live=1165&type=Live



Dale?
Booray
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Top of first

Ground out to third
K
Ground out to short

Bears up next

BUbearinARK
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Looks like we scored!!!

Runners on 1&2, 0 outs

1-0 BU
Brian Ethridge
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Shea fouled out to 1B
BUbearinARK
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Its libe on facebook. Go to baylor baseball page
Booray
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Bottom of first, Bears get it started;

Cunningham lead off double to right
Loftin walks
Wendzel rips a single to left, 1-0
Mound conference after 3 ABs
Langeliers pops out
Downey walks (has a unique slow jam for walkup music) bases loaded
Haring FC to short, Liftin scores 2-0
Mueller grounds out to 3rd

2-0 Bears

Booray
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Crusaders try again

BTW Kettler throwing
K
Single. There goes the perfecto.
Nice play on a blooper to short right. 2 outs
Another sliding catch in right. 3 outs. Thats good

Booray
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Bears back at the plate.

Bissonet HBP
Weaver Sac Bunt
Bissonet out trying to advance on wild pitch blocked at the plate

Happy Days at the plate K

2-0 after 2
Booray
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Crusaders looking for third times a charm

K
Ground out to first unassisted
Pop up

Kettler dominant so far

2-0 BU after 2.5
Midnight Rider
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Game is being broadcast on Facebook
Bear8084
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Baylor is rolling like they should and up 10-0, bottom of the 6th. Sic 'Em!
Wineguy89
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Kettler Line: 7 IP 0 runs 4 hits. 0 BB 2 HBP 8 K. Up 12-0. Bottom 8.
Richard Reese
(True) Freshman - Bellville, TX
152 carries/791 yards/5.2 YPC/12 touchdowns
11 receptions/80 yards
1 game clinching studly TD vs Kansas
ZERO fumbles


Brett “Big Ballz” Yormark- Commissioner Big 12-16 Conference
One badass new TV contract with more goodies to come
william
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Dale?
BUbearinARK
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12-0 bears win
gobears20
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Game 2


T3: Holy Cross adds 2 more on 3 hits to take a 3-0 lead.
william
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Dale?
Bear8084
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Won it off a walkoff HR in extra innings. I didn't think that ball was going to travel that far or stay fair. On to game 3 in a few! I love that Baylor is showing all the home games on Facebook. Makes it easy to just pull it up and watch on the go a little bit. Sic 'Em!!!!
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william
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4th and Inches
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Great start Bears!
txrangers
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Sucks Langeliers is out for a month. Hope he is ready by the time conference play arrives.
william
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https://www.kwtx.com/content/sports/Baylors-Langeliers-out-with-broken-bone-506016311.html
Dale?
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