Oklahoma State outscores Wichita State, 9-5

Oklahoma State outscores

Oklahoma State outscores Wichita State as the Cowboys picked up a midweek baseball win against Wichita State by a score of 9-5 Tuesday night at O’Brate Stadium in Stillwater.

With the win, the Cowboys improved to 12-10, while the Shockers fell to 8-16.

Brayden Smith led the way at the plate for the Pokes, going 3-for-5 with a home run and double to extend his hitting streak to nine games. Colin Brueggemann collected three RBIs, while Jayson Jones drove in two runs and also moved his hitting streak to nine games.

Mario Pesca earned the win in relief, pitching two shutout innings and not allowing a hit to improve to 2-0, while Sean Youngerman recorded the final five outs, two via strikeout, to earn his fourth save.

Matthew Brown made his first collegiate start on the mound for the Cowboys after appearing in three games as a reliever. The freshman right-hander pitched three innings, striking out three while allowing two runs on three hits.

After Brown retired the first seven batters of the game, Wichita State took a 1-0 lead on an infield dribbler that got past Brown in the third inning.

Pesca entered the game with the bases loaded and nobody out in the fourth inning and induced a double play that scored a run to make the score 2-0 before a groundout ended the inning without further damage.

In the bottom of the fourth, the Cowboys loaded the bases with nobody out. Jones worked a RBI walk, and Colin Brueggemann hit a bases-clearing triple off the left field wall to give the Pokes a 4-2 lead.

In the fifth, Smith hit a leadoff home run to right field, his fifth of the year, and Nolan Schubart went back-to-back with his sixth home run of the season to put OSU up 6-2.

WSU picked up a run in the sixth on a single to right off Noah Wech, but in the bottom of the frame, the Cowboys got the run back with a Drew Culbertson sacrifice bunt to make it a 7-3 ballgame.

Brennan Phillips worked a scoreless seventh inning for the Cowboys, striking out one, and Jones got his second RBI of the night on a double in the left-field gap to bring the score to 8-3.

The Shockers got a pair of runs in the eighth to trim their deficit to three, but Smith doubled and later stole home to add an insurance run in the bottom of the inning and extend the lead to 9-5.

Up next for OSU is a three-game series against Kansas, which opens Friday in Lawrence.

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