OSU Baseball: Cowboys Erase 7-Run Deficit to Sweep TCU

The Cowboys appear to be getting hot at just the right time.

Oklahoma State swept TCU this weekend with an 11-10 win on Sunday. But it didn’t always look as if the Cowboys would win this game.

OSU trailed 8-1 going into the bottom of the third inning, with the Horned Frogs battering the Pokes with a seven-run second inning that saw three balls leave the yard.

But then slowly and surely, the Pokes started chipping away.

OSU pulled two back in the bottom of third when Aidan Meola homered to left.

Bye bye baseball 👋#GoPokes | @aidanmeola1 pic.twitter.com/UFpAAlPA21

— OSU Cowboy Baseball (@OSUBaseball) May 3, 2026

The two-run shot momentarily cut TCU’s lead to five, but then the Horned Frogs got one back with a bases-loaded walk in the top of the fourth. But the home half of that inning was really where the Cowboys started showing life.

OSU plated three in the inning, all coming off a two-out rally. Freshman Danny Wallace, who has been playing well, singled to start the rally and advanced to second on a wild pitch before Alex Conover, who homered in the first, walked.

That brought up Brock Thompson, who took a 2-2 count to right, singling and scoring Wallace.

Then superstar Kollin Ritchie had an infield single that saw Conover score from third before a Meola single scored Thompson. All of a sudden, it was 9-6.

It’d stay that way until the sixth when the Cowboys would get the lead back.

Ritchie homered for the 26th time this season. The two-run shot made it 9-8. Ritchie’s 26th homer ties Tal Light (1995) and Robin Ventura (1988) for sixth on OSU’s single season record list.

Just Kollin doing Kollin things 💪

His fourth 💣 of the series puts the Cowboys within one#GoPokes | @RitchieKollin pic.twitter.com/XwAIHJZ9Qq

— OSU Cowboy Baseball (@OSUBaseball) May 3, 2026

Then Meola tied it in the next at-bat, taking an 0-2 count to center.

WE’RE TIED ‼️

Pokes comeback from down seven #GoPokes | @aidanmeola1 pic.twitter.com/lGMlqBtWpa

— OSU Cowboy Baseball (@OSUBaseball) May 3, 2026

And then with the next at-bat, Campbell Smithwick gave the Pokes the lead on a full count.

BACK-TO-BACK-TO-BACK ✖️3⃣

Soup hits the 3rd straight BOMB for the Cowboys to take the lead#GoPokes | @campbellrsoup pic.twitter.com/6GQlg3dvkF

— OSU Cowboy Baseball (@OSUBaseball) May 3, 2026

OSU would score again in the eighth on a fielder’s choice to add what ended up being some much-needed insurance before Noah Wech put the Frogs to bed … after a bit of a scare.

Leadoff man Cole Cramer reached on a fielding error and advanced to second on a ground out.

After another groundout meant the game was an out away from ending, Wech walked Nolan Traeger before Rob Liddington Jr. doubled. One run scored, and the tying run was 90 feet from home plate. But then Wech forced a full-count flyout to secure the sweep.

After a no-fun start from Brennan Phillips on the mound and a not-ideal initial relief outing from Kai Fyke, the Cowboy bullpen did an excellent job finding a way to get it done. The quartet of Zane Burns, Jake Kennedy, Drew Blake and Wech combined to throw six innings where they have up three hits and the ninth-inning run. Wech was the only one of that group to give up a hit.

Don’t look now, but the Cowboys are 31-17 and 14-10 in Big 12 play. It’s their second straight Big 12 sweep after going 3-0 in Lubbock last weekend. They’re off in the midweek and return to action next weekend when they travel to Arizona State for a three-game series.