Tech Welcomes Tarleton for Tuesday night
Texas Tech Baseball returns home for a Tuesday night, 6:30 p.m midweek contest against Tarleton State
Tuesday’s contest against the Texans will also be the second and final Bark in the Park night, as fans can bring their favorite four-legged fan to the game. All dogs get free admission.
Tuesday’s contest against Tarleton will kick-off a busy five-game week for the Red Raiders who are also scheduled to face ACU on Wednesday night (5 p.m.) in Abilene as part of a makeup of last week’s (Apr. 14) date that was postponed due to inclement weather.
Following the date at ACU, Tech will play host to Oklahoma State for three, 1 p.m. contests on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
The Red Raiders and Texans are meeting for the second-straight year after never previously meeting before a season ago. Tech won last year’s contest 10-7.
INSIDE THE MATCHUP:
MATCHUP: Texas Tech (20-19) vs. Tarleton State (25-14)
DATE: Tuesday, Apr. 21
TIME: 6:30 p.m.
LOCATION: Lubbock, Texas (Dan Law Field at Rip Griffin Park)
PITCHING MATCHUP: RHP Kaysen Raineri (3-0, 7.65 ERA) vs. Brendon Carter (0-0, 7.36 ERA)
HEADLINES IN 1-2-3:
* Texas Tech Baseball will look to snap a five-game losing streak on Tuesday night when the Texans of Tarleton State come to town for a midweek contest. After facing off in the first all-time matchup a season ago, the Red Raiders again will play host to Tarleton for the beginning of a five-game week that includes a Wednesday makeup at ACU (moved from Apr. 15) and a weekend series with Oklahoma State.
* The Red Raiders will look to rebound from a frustrating weekend in Salt Lake City, that featured a pair of five-plus run losses on Friday and Saturday before a tough 6-3 loss on Sunday. Over the course of the weekend, the Red Raiders led for just five batters as after flipping a 2-0 deficit after two innings of play into a 3-2 lead, the Red Raiders saw Utah score twice on Friday night to go-ahead for good at 4-3. On Saturday, the Red Raiders fell behind 7-0 before nearly falling behind by the same margin on Sunday afternoon (6-0) before pulling to within 6-3.
* Despite the rough weekend in the mountains, the Red Raiders did find a bright spot in senior Tracer Lopez who reached 200 games played on Friday night and moved into 10th and ultimately ninth on the Red Raiders all-time hit list by weekends end. Lopez was an impressive 7-for-12 on the weekend and recorded his 218th career hit to move into a tie with Joey Kenworhty for ninth on the hit list. Lopez needs just three hits to move into 8th and four to move into seventh.
MIDWEEK NOTES:
T-LO STAYED HOT
Entering the weekend series needing just one game to reach 200 career and riding a six-game hit streak, Texas Tech senior Tracer Lopez had himself a strong weekend going 7-for-12 (almost was 8-for-11 but a fly ball that looked to be dropped in the outfield was ruled a catch on Sunday) with a double and a triple. Reaching the 200 game plateau after already reaching 210 hits, Lopez became just the fourth player in program history to reach 210 hits and 200 games played joining Assistant Coach Eric Gutierrez (264 hits in 244 games), Taylor Ashby (228 hits in 216 games) and Clint Bryant (341 hits in 240 games). After seeing his average dip to .307 after a 7-32 stretch (.219) from March 27 to April 7, Lopez is now 16 for his last 28 (.571) and has multiple hits in three-straight games and six of his last seven overall. Lopez has raised his average from .307 to .355 over that span and now has a career-best 15 doubles after entering the season with 21 total doubles in three years. Lopez, who enrolled at Tech at the semster break in 2023 and before his senior season of high school baseball is now a career .295 hitter and has scored 157 career runs.
LOOKING TO HEAT BACK UP AT THE DISH
After reaching eight runs scored in a program record 15-straight games from Feb. 17 until March 14, and scoring at least five runs in 24-straight games (Feb. 17- Mar. 28) and 30-of-31 games, the Red Raiders have seen their bats cool off over the last six games, as Tech has been held to four runs or fewer in five of those six contests. The stretch started with a 4-1 victory over then No. 17 WVU in which Tech was held score less for the first six innings of play before scoring once in the seventh and three times in the eighth. After scoring just twice in the series finale against the Mountaineers, the Red Raider scored eight times against UIW on Wednesday night before manging just eight total runs (three Friday, Two Saturday and Three Sunday) in the weekend series against Utah. The Red Raiders failed to score at least eight times once in the weekend series for the first time this season against the same opponent. After reaching eight runs in 27 of the first 36 games, Tech managed just the eight total runs in Salt Lake this past weekend. The Red Raiders for the series hit just .271 as a team and saw three players (Lopez, Hughes and Rusinek) combine for 16 of Tech’s 26 hits. Tech had nine players record just two hits or fewer on the weekend including Caden Ferraro who took a rare 0-for-8 and Connor Shouse who just 1-for-12 with an RBI double on the weekend. After striking out just 242 times in 36 games (6.7 times per game) and walking 202 times (5.6 times per game), the Red Raiders walked just eight times in three games (2.67) and struck out 25 times (8.3 times per game). When you expand it out Tech recorded 9.4 percent of its strikeouts on the season this past season against Utah.
STARTING TO ADD[Y] UP
After appearing just once last season and taking a medical redshirt, second-year redshirt freshman Logan Addison continues to pitch well for the Red Raiders as the righty has now tossed 8.2 innings without allowing a run. On Sunday afternoon against Utah, Addison tossed 1.2 scorless innings and allowed just one hit and one free pass on a hit-by-pitch. He struck out three battters and now lowered his ERA to 5.52 and his batting average against to .231. Addison has whiffed 17 batters and walked just four in 14.2 innings pitched. In Big 12 play, he has pitched to a 1.29 ERA and has struck out nine batters and walked just one. After allowing four runs against DBU back on Mar. 17, Addison has been solid over his last eight trips, as the righty has pitched a scoreless effort in sevne of his last eight appearances and has allowed just one run in those eight appearances. After striking out two in a 1-2-3 inning against New Mexico, Addison allowed a solo home run in a one-inning appearance. The righty rebounded the following weekend by pitching two scoreless innings against Houston where he needed just 22 pitches to toss two scoreless innings. In the return contest at New Mexico, Addison needed just 10 pitches to toss a 1-2-3 inning in Albuquerque back on April 7. Last weekend against No. 17 WVU, Addison combined to toss two innings of scoreless, two-hit ball where he struck out four. Addison whiffed all four batters in the Friday contest against the Mountaineers. Addison also tossed a strong 10-pitch 1-2-3 inning on Wednesday night against UIW. In total, Addison has needed 11 pitches or fewer per inning in six of his last seven appearances. In Big 12 play, Addison has limited opposing batters to just four hits in seven innings pitched and a batting-average-against of just .160 over his six appearances.
HERE’S JONNY
After a tough luck appearance in the Friday night setback to No. 17 WVU (Apr. 10) reliever Jonny Lowe rebounded nicely Sunday, tossing 3.2 innings of perfect baseball. He needed just 44 pitches to retire all 11 batters with four coming via the strikeout. After entering with runners of first and second, Lowe coaxed a first pitch ground ball that was muffed at second base to load the bases. Showing the poise of a senior, Lowe rebounded nicely using a 5-3 double play two pitches later to strand the bases loaded. After struggling in his first season with the Scarlet and Black, Lowe has shined in 2026, pitching to a 3.91 ERA this season. After walking 13 batters in just 16 innings a season ago, Lowe has cut that number in half in nearly double the amount of innings, as he has issued just seven base-on-balls over his first 25.1 innings of work this season. Opposing batters are hitting just .255 against the Rockwall native. Lowe has pitched a scoreless appearance in four of his last five games pitched. The lone non-scoreless appearance in that stretch was the three-run, 1.2 inning outing against WVU.
UP NEXT:
The Red Raiders hit the road for a quick daytrip to ACU for a midweek contest in Abilene. First pitch is set for 5 p.m.
Release provided by Andrew Stern Texas Tech Athletics