Oklahoma Baseball: 14-9 Sooners host 9-15 Oral Roberts @ LDM Tue

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The Oklahoma Sooners Baseball team will host the Oral Roberts Golden Eagles for a Tuesday night game at L Dale Mitchell Park at 6:30 PM. The game can be seen via SoonerVision on ESPN+ and heard locally in Oklahoma on SportsTalk 1400 AM/99.3 FM or nationwide on The Varsity app. Live stats can be found at OUStats.com. Toby Rowland will be on the radio call, while Chad McKee and Rich Hills will call the action on ESPN+.

Here is the Sooner staff writers preview article about the game.

https://soonersports.com/news/2024/3/25 ... chell-park

The Sooners come into the game in need of a bounce back after dropping two games games on Saturday in a long DH'er day. The two losses dropped the Sooners record down to 7-2 and their overall record to 14-9. The Sooners are 9-4 in their last 13 games. Oral Roberts comes into the game on a 5-8 streak in their last 13 games and 9-15 overall.

The Sooners and the Golden Eagles have somewhat similar offensive numbers. Oklahoma does hold about a 20 point advantage in the BA and the OB% over ORU. The Sooners Slugging% is 60 points higher though due to more triples and HRs. OU holds an advantage in the fielding thought with 17 errors to the 29 for ORU for a 24 point advantage in Fielding%.

On the mound, Oklahoma's Team ERA is almost 2 runs better with a 5.11 compared to 7.09 for ORU. Oklahoma looks to be better across the board as a team in the pitching department. No starting pitcher for ORU has better than a 5.19 ERA. OU has five pitchers with starts lower than 5.03. ORU does have a trio of relievers at 1.93, 3.38 and 3.86 for ERAs with 33 innings between them. Oklahoma will have to be ready for them in the late innings. Oklahoma usually pitches by committee in mid-week games, so the Sooner relievers and spot starters will be on the hot seat to perform well.

Oklahoma has probably 4 of the best 7 hitters in the game with Carmichael, Snyder, Madron and Nicklaus against Booker, Breeze and Rodriguez for ORU.

Good luck to the Sooner Baseball team on Tuesday.

Boomer Sooner!

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The Oklahoma Sooners Baseball team defeated Oral Roberts on Tuesday night 10-0 in a 7-inning run-rule victory. The Sooners showed up with their bats and their pitching arms for the game. The Sooners pounded out 15 hits including 4 doubles and pitched a shutout by a trio of Sooner pitchers allowing just 2 hits and 3 walks offset by 6 Ks.

Grant Stevens (LHP) in his second start of the season pitched very well as he allowed 2 hits and 2 walks with 4 Ks. Stevens faced the minimum with 1, 2, 3 innings 3 times, allowed 1 base runner twice and 2 base runners only once in an inning. It was his 4th win of the season. Jace Miner started the 7th inning but allowed the first two batters to reach base without a hit, Reid Hensley was brought in and finished the innings with 2 Ks to end the game in the 7th.

On offense, the Sooners Jackson Nicklaus picked up 3 hits with 1 RBI and a RS. Bryce Madron matched that with 3 hits and an RBI with a double and 2 RS. Easton Carmichael, Anthony Mackenzie, Kendall Pettis and Jason Walk each had two hits. Pettis had 2 RBIs while the other three had 1 RBI each. Mackenzie scored 3 runs. Pettis, Jaxon Willits and Walk each added a double. Eight of nine Sooners reached base at least once in the game. Four Sooners reached base at least 3 times.

The Sooners scored 3 in the 1st, 1 in the 3rd, 2 in the 5th and 4 in the 7th to end the game with only 2 outs in the bottom of the 7th. Carmichael singled in the 10th run for the run-rule victory.

The win raised the Sooners record to 15-9.

Here is the Sooner staff writers article about the game.

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The Sooners close an eight-game homestand this Thursday-Saturday by hosting a three-game set vs. Lamar (19-5, 3-0 Southland) at L. Dale Mitchell Park. First pitches are set for 6:30 p.m. on Thursday and Friday and 2 p.m. Saturday.

All three games can be seen via SoonerVision on ESPN+ and heard locally in Oklahoma on SportsTalk 1400 AM/99.3 FM or nationwide on The Varsity app. Live stats can be found at OUStats.com.

Boomer Sooner!