WVU Baseball Blanked at Home; Big 12 Title Hopes Dwindle

WVU Baseball dropped their home game with the TCU Horned Frogs on Friday, May 15, falling 4-0 in a three-hit shutout that snapped a seven game conference winning streak and put their hopes of a regular season Big 12 title almost out of reach.

The Mountaineers (35-13, 20-9 Big 12) will need to win on Saturday and have Kansas lose their last two games — the Jayhawks lead the BYU Cougars 3-0 through five innings as of 9:30 p.m. EDT — in order to secure a share of the Big 12 throne.

West Virginia left-hander Maxx Yehl allowed a home run on the first pitch of the second inning; the Horned Frogs doubled their lead two batters later with another solo blast. The Mountaineers put two aboard in the third, but Gavin Kelly fanned after a full count to end the inning. Of West Virginia’s five baserunners, three reached with two outs. A double play immediately erased another, limiting the Mountaineers’ chances to break the ice.

Yehl ended his day at 6.2 innings and 116 pitches, striking out nine batters. The Horned Frogs added two more runs in the eighth, a solo home run and a two-out rally courtesy of an error and two wild pitches that led to dropped third strikes. West Virginia went down quietly in the bottom of the ninth with three quick contact outs.

WVU Baseball will conclude their regular season at noon on Saturday, May 16.