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OSU Baseball: Cowboys Throttle Louisville in Second Game in Arlington

OSU takes on Texas on Sunday.

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After a tough loss to Clemson on Friday, the Cowboys got an emphatic W against Louisville.

Oklahoma State beat the Cardinals 12-3 on Saturday at Globe Life Field in Arlington. Louisville actually scored the first three runs of the game, taking that 3-0 lead into the bottom of the fourth when the Pokes got rolling.

Arkansas transfer Jayson Jones got things started with a single to right before Nolan Schubart drew a full-count walk. Aidan Meola got hit with the next pitch, loading the bases for Colin Brueggemann, and boy, did he step into the moment. Brueggemann rocked the first pitch thrown to him well past the right-field fence. Just like that, OSU had a 4-3 lead.

OSU added another run in the fifth when a Schubart single sent Iowa Western Community College transfer Brayden Smith across home plate.

The sixth inning was another big one for the Cowboys.

Freshman Garrett Shull, from Enid, hit a two-out single that moved fellow freshman Brock Thompson to second. Smith drew a walk to load the bases before Jones drew a walk to score Thompson. Then Shull scored on a wild pitch.

Schubart isn’t often a struggling pitcher’s best remedy, and he certainly wasn’t this time. He singled to right in the next at-bat to score Jones and Smith, making it 9-3.

Sophomore shortstop Avery Ortiz hit a solo home run to left-center in the seventh. It’s already his second home run this season after he hit one Friday night against Clemson.


For good measure, Jones hit a solo shot in the eighth before the Cowboys added their final run off another bases-loaded walk.

Jones and Schubart each went 3-for-4 at the plate. Jones scored three runs and had two RBIs; Schubart had one run, three RBIs. Eight of the nine Cowboy hitters crossed the plate.

Every pitcher the Cowboys used Saturday is new to the team. Harrison Bodendorf, a Hawaii transfer, got the start on the bump. The 6-foot-5 lefty threw five innings where he gave up the three runs off four hits while walking two and striking out six.

Stormy Rhodes, a freshman from Kerrville, Texas, came on in the fifth and had an awesome first outing. He threw three innings, giving up just one hit, no walks and striking out three.

Then came big Mario Pesca. A 6-foot-8, 273-pound right-hander who transferred from St. John’s, Pesca took the hill in the ninth and sat down all three batters he faced, striking out one.

The Cowboys are back in Globe Life on Sunday to take on Texas. First pitch is set for 6:30 p.m.

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