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OSU Baseball: Cowboys Beat Sooners in Rainy Bedlam Game in Tulsa

Holliday is 38-16 against OU.

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[Devin Wilber/PFB]

TULSA — This hasn’t been the greatest of seasons for OSU Baseball, but man, does Josh Holliday have a knack for beating the Sooners.

Oklahoma State beat Oklahoma 7-3 on a rainy Tuesday night at ONEOK Field. The game was called after a thunderstorm rolled into downtown Tulsa in the eighth inning. The win pushed Holliday to 38-16 against the Sooners as OSU’s head coach.

The Cowboys did their damage early and did it with the long ball. After entering the evening third nationally in home runs, the Cowboys clobbered four over the fence Tuesday night.

Two of those came off Campbell Smithwick’s bat. The OSU catcher came into the night with three home runs all season but had two just four innings into Bedlam — the first a solo shot to right and the second a solo shot to straightaway center.

Smithwick then tallied the Cowboys’ lone run that didn’t come off a home run in the sixth with some good, old-fashioned hustle. Smithwick legged out an infield single before stealing second and taking third and home on wild pitches.

Home run regular Kollin Ritchie started the scoring with a two-run shot in the top of the first. It marked Ritchie’s 21st home run of the year, which is tied for the 18th-most any Cowboy has hit in a season.

OU didn’t get on the board until the eighth when Jaxon Willits hit a three-run shot that was quickly followed by the game-ending delay.

It was a solid day for the shorthanded OSU pitching staff, but it perhaps left the night a little more shorthanded.

Two-way player TP Wentworth got the start on the bump and threw 3 1/3 innings before he left after grabbing his throwing arm after a pitch. He allowed no runs while giving up two hits, walking two and striking out three.

Brennan Phillips then emerged from the bullpen on short notice and gave the Cowboys 3 2/3 innings where he allowed no runs on two hits while striking out four.

The Cowboy pitching staff was also helped by some solid defense behind them.

The Pokes turned a 6-4-3 double play in the first.

Smithwick then threw Alec Blair out at third to end the second after Smithwick pump-faked to second base on a steal attempt before catching the OU outfielder in no man’s land.

The third inning ended when Alex Conover robbed a would-be home run in left.

OSU had three straight errors to load the bases in the seventh before another 6-4-3 double play got them out of that jam.

Powerful hitting, solid pitching and good work — it was a solid night at the ballpark for the Cowboys.

The win pushes the Pokes to 23-14 on the year. OSU hosts Big 12-leading Kansas in a three-game series this weekend.

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