Game 2 of the Top 15 match in Stillwater is set to start at 6 p.m. with the series ending following at 1 p.m. on Sunday.
Both groups go into the weekend connected 2nd in the league standings at 11-7 with each ranked in the Top 15 of the Collegiate Baseball survey.
Sophomore Raphael Pelletier was called to the Buster Posey Catcher of the Year Watch List as one of simply 3 members from the league represented in the list.
Owen Boerema (6-1) will get Friday’s call with the left-hander making his 13th start as a Wildcat breaking the Cowboys’ Juaron Watts-Brown. German Fajardo (3-2) will head to the hill Saturday dealing with right-hander Ben Abram.
The whole series will be streamed on the Big 12 Now on ESPN+ and the ESPN app with radio protection available on News Radio KMAN (93.3 FM, 1350 AM). Live streaming audio is available at kstatesports.com/watch and on the K-State Sports app.
VIDEO GAME #50
K-STATE (31-18, 11-7 Big 12) vs. OKLAHOMA STATE (33-14, 11-7 Big 12)
Friday, May 12 | 6 p.m. | O’Brate Stadium (8,000)
Projected Starters: LHP Owen Boerema vs. Juaron Watts-Brown
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VIDEO GAME #51
K-STATE (31-18, 11-7 Big 12) vs. OKLAHOMA STATE (33-14, 11-7 Big 12)
Saturday, May 13 | 6 p.m. | O’Brate Stadium (8,000)
Projected Starters: RHP German Fajardo vs. RHP Ben Abram
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Radio: 1350AM/93.3/93.7FM
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VIDEO GAME #52
K-STATE (31-18, 11-7 Big 12) vs. OKLAHOMA STATE (33-14, 11-7 Big 12)
Sunday, May 14 | 1 p.m. | O’Brate Stadium (8,000)
Projected Starters: TBD vs. TBD
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Radio: 1350AM/93.3/93.7FM
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A TAKE A LOOK AT K-STATE
The Wildcats go into the week ranked 15th in the Collegiate Baseball Top 30 Poll with a 31-18 total after sweeping Southeast Missouri State … Cats are 13-9 when using the roadway … K-State is slashing .270/.397/.460 as a group that includes 77 doubles, 10 triples and 70 home keeps up 2 beginners striking over .300 … K-State ranks 5th in the country in strolls with 304 which ranks seventh in the school all-time leaderboard … The Cats rank 18th in the country in sacrifice flies (29) and 17th in taken bases (101) … Brady Day leads the offense striking .348 followed by Kaelen Culpepper striking .304 … Roberto Pena has actually released 15 homers this season followed by Nick Goodwin with 11 while Pena ranks 2nd in the Big 12 with 55 RBI … Goodwin and Brendan Jones have actually begun in all 49 video games for K-State at shortstop and center field… Jones ranks 2nd in the league with 24 taken bases … Goodwin is seventh in the country in sac flies with 7 … The Wildcats have a league third-best 4.72 group period with 429 strikeouts compared to 177 strolls … K-State ranks 2nd In the league with a 2.42 strikeout-to-walk ratio while leading in strolls per 9 innings at 3.75 and least strolls enabled … Sixteen pitchers have actually emerged on the mound with German Fajardo making a team-high 13 starts … Left-hander Owen Boerema ranks 2nd in the league with 80 overall strikeouts while the Minnesota item is simply one-of-six pitchers to strikeout 12+ in a single video game … Pete Hughes remains in his 5th season at the helm and has actually assembled an 129-110 (.540) record throughout his time with Wildcats … Hughes is 781-602-3 (.565) in his 26 years as a head coach …
SEARCHING OKLAHOMA STATE
OSU goes into the weekend ranked in 4 of the nationwide surveys, can be found in as high as 13th with a general 33-14 record and 23-6 when dipping into home … Josh Holliday remains in his 11th season at the helm of the Cowboys baseball program boasting a record of 395-213-2 (.649) leading the group to 9 NCAA Tournament looks consisting of the 2016 College World Series … OSU is slashing .305/.409/.551 averaging 8.5 fleeces 10.4 hits … The Cowboys have actually amounted to 215 extra-base hits consisting of a conference leading 87 homers … Four beginners are striking over .300 led by Roc Riggio … The two-time Big 12 Player of the Week is striking .357 on the year with 51 RBI and 55 runs scored … Fifteen gamers have actually sent one out of the park this season led by Riggio with 16 to support a group-high .754 slugging-percentage … On the mound, OSU has a 5.29 team period with challengers striking .263 with a 2.47 strikeout-to-walk ratio … Right-hander Ben Abram has actually made 6 triumphes on the mound this year over 13 looks with 10 starts … Juaron Watts-Brown has actually started out 10+ batters on 4 celebrations this season consisting of a season-high 13 versus Utah Tech … Last season, the Cowboys ended up 42-22 to host the NCAA Stillwater Regional prior to their season pertained to an end with a 7-3 choice versus Arkansas in the finals …
INSIDE THE SERIES
OSU leads the all-time series 176-59 considering that its start on 1911 consisting of a 52-19 record in Big 12 action … The Cats are 17-101 when playing the Cowboys on the roadway … OSU declared the regular-season series 2-1 in 2022 in Manhattan …The Cats last series win over the Red Cowboys was available in 2010 inside Tointon Family Stadium where K-State with a 3-0 tidy sweep … K-State last won a series in Stillwater 2-0 in 2009 … K-State is 1-9 in the last 10 …
L, 2-4 – March 27, 2021 (Stillwater)
L, 2-8 – March 28, 2021 (Stillwater)
L, 9-12 – April 1, 2022 (Manhattan)
L, 6-8 – April 2, 2022 (Manhattan)
W, 7-2 – April 3, 2022 (Manhattan)
AROUND THE LEAGUE
The West Virginia Mountaineers (37-12) lead the league with an 13-5 record followed by Oklahoma State (33-14) and K-State (31-18) connected for 2nd at 11-7 … Texas (33-17, 12-9) ranks 4th followed by Texas Tech (34-16, 9-9), Oklahoma (26-22, 5-4), TCU (27-21, 8-10), Kansas (22-26, 7-14), and Baylor (16-32, 6-15) …
THE BIG 12 COMPETITION
The 2023 Phillips 66 Big 12 Baseball Championship will once again be held at the home of the Texas Rangers, Globe Life Field, for the 2nd straight season in Arlington, Texas, May 24 through May 28 … The top-eight groups from the conference will advance to the competition … All-competition tickets for the 2023 Phillips 66 Big 12 Baseball Championship at Globe Life Field in Arlington, Texas are on sale at GlobeLifeField.com/Big12 … The 2023 NCAA Baseball Tournament starts June 2.
A SEASON OF FIRSTS
Wildcats reached 30-wins for the very first time considering that 2021; 17th time in program history … Roberto Pena ended up being simply the 3rd gamer considering that 1997 to have a 15-plus home run season signing up with Dylan Phillips and Zach Kokoska in 2021 … K-State matched a program record 13 wins on the roadway after beating UC Irvine … The Cats last won 13 roadway video games in 2013 … The Wildcats’ Dillons Sunflower Showdown series sweep was the very first roadway sweep over KU considering that 2013 … The 2023 group was the fastest group to 9 conference wins in program history … Fastest group to 24 total wins considering that 2013 … K-State finished its very first sweep over Oklahoma at home considering that 1990 … The sweep over the Sooners marked the very first Big 12 series sweep considering that 2013 … K-State was the very first member of the Big 12 to reach 9 conference triumphes this season … First time in 123-years of K-State baseball history the Wildcats led off the season with a four-game roadway series sweep …
CRACKIN’ THE SURVEYS
K-State leapt to 15th in the latest edition of the Collegiate Baseball’s Top 30 survey on Monday early morning … The Cats made the very first look in a nationwide survey considering that 2014 recently at No. 22 … The Cats are getting votes in the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association (NCBWA) …
WELCOME TO THE COMMUNITY
Right-handed more detailed Tyson Neighbors has actually been controling on the mound for the Cats this season, amounting to 9 conserves and a 4-1 record … The sophomore ranks 10th all-time in K-State history with 9 profession conserves and leads the Big 12 in the classification … In the series opener versus Texas Tech, Neighbors broke the school’s TrackMan-era pitch speed record at 99 miles per hour … Neighbors was called to the NCBWA Stopper of the Year Midseason Watch List …
HIGHLIGHT THE BROOMS
K-State has actually swept 5 three-plus video game series this season consisting of 2 Big 12 opponents which marks the very first considering that 2013 … The Cats are 16-0 in the 5 series and have actually outscored challengers 168-78 (+90) … The Wildcats plated 21 runs in the series ending versus the KU Jayhawks in the highest-scoring video game in series history to finish the Showdown sweep … K-State is the only program in the Big 12 to have 2 conference sweeps this season …
WATCH ON 25
Junior Nick Goodwin was called to the 2023 College Baseball Foundation Brooks Wallace Award Watch List … The award honors the country’s leading shortstop and will exist by the College Baseball Foundation later on this year … Goodwin, a junior from Overland Park, Kan., ranks seventh in the country with 7 sacrifice flies while ranking 10th in the league with 48 RBI … At the plate, the Overland Park native has a slash line of .286/.403/.524 to choose 7 doubles, 2 triples, and 11 homers … Goodwin struck his 32nd profession home runs in the Cats success over SEMO to connect 4th total in the K-State all-time leaderboard … He was among 7 shortstops from the Big 12 represented on the watch list …
GOT HEEEEM
Raphael Pelletier was simply among 3 pitchers from the Big 12 to be tabbed to the Buster Posey Catcher of the Year Watch List … The sophomore continues to be a risk behind the plate as right-handed catcher from Mascouche, Quebec, Canada has actually assassinated a league-high 15 runners this season for a remarkable .516 SBA portion … As a group, K-State is 2nd in the league in captured taking with 24 runners tossed out while having the most affordable SBA portion at .425 …
ON THE ROADWAY ONCE AGAIN
K-State is 13-12 when using the roadway and 13-9 when playing in real away video games as the checking out group consisting of 5-4 in Big 12 roadway video games … On the roadway, the Wildcat offense is slashing .263/.384/.433 consisting of 38 doubles, 5 triples and 32 home runs … K-State has actually balanced 6.7 fleeces 8.9 hits when on the roadway … Three Wildcats are striking over .300 on the roadway with Brady Day, Kaelen Culpepper and Raphael Pelletier … Day leads the offense on the roadway striking .350 with 28 hits consisting of 5 extra-base hits and 9 RBI … Cole Johnson leads with 26 RBI on the roadway while Nick Goodwin has actually released 7 homers on the roadway… The Wildcat bullpen has actually boasted a 5.44 period on the roadway, starting out 227 compared to 97 strolls … Eight Cats have actually made a success on the roadway led by Kyler Heyne with 3 while Tyson Neighbors has a team-high 5 conserves … Neighbors has actually made a look in 13 roadway video games this season followed by Ty Ruhl with 11 …
STROLL THE WALK
The Cats rank 5th in the country in strolls with 304, balancing 6.2 per contest … Brady Day ranks 16th in the country in strolls and 3rd in the Big 12 with a team-high 45 … K-State has actually signed up double figure strolls in 8 video games this season … The Cats had 16 strolls versus Youngstown State (March 10) which was 9 except matching the Division I all-time record … K-States’ 304 strolls rank seventh in the all-time program single-season records … The Wildcats all-time single-season strolls record was embeded in 1995 with 382 …
GOTTA BE QUICKER THAN THAT
K-State has actually triggered problem on the base course for challengers, taking a 101 bases which ranks 16th in all Division I and 2nd in the Big 12 while sitting 24th with 2.06 taken bases per video game … Brendan Jones has actually been the speedster for the Cats lineup with 24 taken bases which is 2nd in the Big 12 and 29th amongst all Division I gamers … The Cats took a season-high 11 bases versus Youngstown State … The K-State single-season record is 149 embeded in 2009 thru 62 video games …
THE LONG BALL
K-State has actually released 70 balls out of the park this season which ranks 3rd in the Big 12 … Eleven gamers have actually tape-recorded numerous homers this season led by Roberto Pena with 15 … Nick Goodwin leads the existing profession leaderboard with 32 which ties 4th on the all-time leaderboard … Four gamers have actually struck numerous homers in a single video game with Kaelen Culpepper, Cole Johnson, Orlando Salinas, Jr., and Pena who has 2 … Brendan Jones struck the Cats just video game leadoff home run in the series opener versus the West Virginia … K-State struck back-to-back home runs for the 3rd time this season versus Wichita State by Culpepper and Pena … Five Wildcats have actually struck grand slams this season with the last originating from Brendan Jones versus SEMO (May 6) … Johnson and Pena each released a grand slam versus SFA (Feb. 20) to mark the very first time considering that 2010 where 2 Wildcats published grand slams in the exact same video game … Just 16 homers have actually protested left-handed pitchers, 35 are solo shots while 20 have actually featured 2 outs … The Wildcats sent 5 deep and out in the series ending versus No. 24 West Virginia marking the 4th time in the Hughes age, and 2nd this season … The 5 home runs were simply brief 2 of matching a program record 7 …
LAST TIME OUT
K-State gathered its very first 30-plus win season after sweeping Southeast Missouri State in a three-game set last weekend … After catching a one-run accomplishment, the Cats beat the Redhawks 12-5 prior to getting a 10-0 nothing to make the sweep … K-State outscored SEMO 24-6 slashing .303/.407/.685 … Roberto Pena led the offense with an unbelievable slash line of .833/.909/2.500 with one double and 3 home runs … Six Wildcats released among the 9 homers over the walls at Tointon … K-State dedicated no mistakes in the series … The pitching staff boasted a 2.16 period with 20 strikeouts to 7 strolls, restricting the Redhawks to strike simply .174 …
A TAKE A LOOK AT THE NUMBERS
K-State has a season +105 run differential through 49 video games balancing 7.4 operate on 8.9 hits … The Wildcats have actually outscored challengers 57-26 in the 2nd inning alone and 122-55 (+67) from the seventh and on … Cats are 21-3 when leading after the 6th and 4-0 when connected after 6 … K-State is 17-11 when dedicating no mistakes in a video game … Conversely, K-State has actually won 14 video games when several mistakes are dedicated, 14-7 total … The Wildcats are 23-6 when scoring very first and 9-7 when scoring in the very first inning … K-State has actually outhit challengers in 26 contests this season and is 5-18 when being outhit … The Cats are 22-4 when restricting challengers to 5 or less runs and are 8-6 in one-run video games… K-State is 24-11 when playing afternoon video games and 7-7 when playing under the lights … The Cats have actually won 23 video games versus right-handed beginners while going 8-6 versus lefties …
FROM THE ‘PEN
Under the assistance pitching coach Rudy Darrow, the Cats pitching staff has actually produced a 4.72 period which ranks 3rd in the Big 12 with getaways from 16 various gamers this season … The Wildcats have actually started out 429 batters this season compared to 177 strolls, balancing 9.1 strikeouts per 9 innings which ranks 4th in the Big 12 … K-State’s pitching staff ranks 2nd in the league with a 2.42 strikeout-to-walk ratio … The Cats lead the league in least strolls enabled per 9 innings at 3.75 and least enabled in general … Six gamers have actually made a minimum of 3 triumphes on the mound led by beginner Owen Boerema with 6 … Boerema made his 6th success in the series opener versus SEMO … The Litchfield, Minn., item is among 6 gamers to strikeout 12+ batters in a single-game after fanning 12 versus No. 21 Texas (April 7), ranks 2nd in the league with 80 overall strikeouts… Right-hander German Fajardo has actually made a team-high 13 starts on the mound this season, ranking 8th in DI … Four various gamers have actually made a save this year led by sophomore Tyson Neighbors with a league-high 9 which is the 13th-finest in D1…
UP NEXT
K-State will go back to Tointon Family Stadium to conclude the 2023 routine season versus TCU on May 17-20. The Cats and Horned Frogs’ three-game set is scheduled to begin on Thursday, May 18 at 6 p.m. The series will be streamed on the Big 12 Now on ESPN+ and the ESPN app with radio protection on News Radio KMAN (93.3 FM, 1350 AM). Live streaming audio will be available at kstatesports.com/watch and the K-State Sports app.
How to follow the ‘Cats: Stay approximately date on K-State baseball online at www.kstatesports.com and on the group’s social networks channels on Twitter and Instagram.
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