Around the Big 12: Baylor’s Tyce Armstrong Crushes 3 Historic Grand Slams

Winning another Big 12 title just got more challenging for WVU after Friday night, and that has nothing to do with how West Virginia played.

Baylor first baseman Tyce Armstrong sent a message to the conference and the entire country with an unbelievable historic performance. Armstrong crushed, not one, not two, but three grand slams in the Bears’ season-opening 15-2 win over New Mexico State.

He recorded 12 RBIs in the game.

As expected, Armstrong’s insane game isn’t common in the history of college baseball, or really baseball at any level. He became just the second college baseball player to ever hit a trio of grand slams in the same game and the first since 1976 – Louisville’s Jim LaFountain did it in the second game of a double header 50 years ago.

No Major League Baseball player has ever connected on three grand slams in one game and only thirteen players have hit two in a game.

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