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Oklahoma Goes Deep to Beat Baylor

Sooners hit four home runs to win the series and close the regular season on a high note.
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Oklahoma Goes Deep to Beat Baylor
Oklahoma Goes Deep to Beat Baylor

Oklahoma closed an up-and-down regular season on a high note on Saturday, hitting four home runs to beat Baylor 6-5 and win its final series.

The Sooners and Bears endured multiple rain delays and time changes at Baylor Ballpark in Waco, but OU (27-26 overall, 11-13 Big 12) got two home runs from Conor McKenna as well as homers from Tyler Hardman and Breydon Daniel to power to victory.

Both Daniel and Hardman homered for the second straight game against the Bears, allowing the Sooners to close the year by winning three of their last four conference series.

McKenna finished with three hits and two RBIs, and Hardman had two RBIs on a pair of hits. Daniel and Kendall Pettis drove in the Sooners’ other runs.

Jake Bennett (4-3) started and scattered seven hits and no walks over six innings for the win. Bennett gave up just two earned runs and struck out five.

Jaret Godman, Carson Carter and Luke Taggart pitched in relief, with Taggart going the ninth inning for his second save of the season.

Baylor put two runners on against Godman in the bottom of the eighth, and loaded the bases against Carter with a fielder’s choice. A three-run double cleared the bases and made it 6-5, but Carter induced a popup and then got a strikeout to end the threatt.

The Bears got a one-out single and had the tying run at second base in the ninth, but Taggart got two groundouts to finish it.

With the win, OU takes fifth place in the Big 12 standings and will play next at the Big 12 Tournament on Wednesday at Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark in Oklahoma City.

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John E. Hoover
JOHN E. HOOVER

John is an award-winning journalist whose work spans five decades in Oklahoma, with multiple state, regional and national awards as a sportswriter at various newspapers. During his newspaper career, John covered the Dallas Cowboys, the Kansas City Chiefs, the Oklahoma Sooners, the Oklahoma State Cowboys, the Arkansas Razorbacks and much more. In 2016, John changed careers, migrating into radio and launching a YouTube channel, and has built a successful independent media company, DanCam Media. From there, John has written under the banners of Sporting News, Sports Illustrated, Fan Nation and a handful of local and national magazines while hosting daily sports talk radio shows in Oklahoma City, Tulsa and statewide. John has also spoken on Capitol Hill in Oklahoma City in a successful effort to put more certified athletic trainers in Oklahoma public high schools. Among the dozens of awards he has won, John most cherishes his national "Beat Writer of the Year" from the Associated Press Sports Editors, Oklahoma's "Best Sports Column" from the Society of Professional Journalists, and Two "Excellence in Sports Medicine Reporting" Awards from the National Athletic Trainers Association. John holds a bachelor's degree in Mass Communications from East Central University in Ada, OK. Born and raised in North Pole, Alaska, John played football and wrote for the school paper at Ada High School in Ada, OK. He enjoys books, movies and travel, and lives in Broken Arrow, OK, with his wife and two kids.

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