- STILLWATER, OK – The final Big 12 Bedlam series goes to the home team.
After evening the weekend set with a 19-run barrage on Saturday, Oklahoma wrapped up the series with Oklahoma State on Sunday afternoon at O’Brate Stadium in Stillwater, OK.
While the Sooners (17-14, 8-4) did a lot of good things in the weekend finale to carry a 5-3 lead into the seventh inning stretch, the bullpen ran into troubles at finding the plate as the Cowboys rode a six-run seventh to a 9-5 win to take the series.
However, the Cowboys got that run right back on a solo home run of their own to take a 2-1 lead. But, on the legs of a solid outing from left-hander Grant Stevens in his first weekend outing, the Sooners were able to hold things there into the fifth and begin to flip things into their favor.
“I thought (Stevens) did great,” Johnson said. “He did exactly what we wanted him to do: go through the lineup twice. And that’s what he did.”
I thought we played really good the first six innings of the game,” head coach Skip Johnson said postgame. “We pitched out of some jams, important jams. But, they took their walks (in the seventh). And we didn’t…that’s part of the game.”
One of the primary themes of the weekend for OU was the ability to hit the long ball, and that was back on display early on Sunday. After the Pokes snagged an early run in the second, Oklahoma evened the game back up with a solo home run off the bat of Bryce Madron in the third.
he Sooners took a 5-3 lead into the seventh inning stretch, but a disastrous six-run inning for the Cowboys was the different in a series-clinching defeat
