{"id":257085,"date":"2026-05-03T23:18:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T23:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/257085\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T23:18:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T23:18:15","slug":"sooners-drop-rubber-game-to-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/257085\/","title":{"rendered":"Sooners Drop Rubber Game to Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NORMAN \u2014 No. 15 Oklahoma fell in the series finale to No. 25 Florida Sunday afternoon by a final of 13-2 in eight innings.<\/p>\n<p>After the Sooners (30-16, 12-12) tied the game in the fourth on <a href=\"https:\/\/soonersports.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/deiten-lachance\/19874\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"19874\" target=\"_blank\">Deiten Lachance&#8217;s<\/a> second home run in as many games, Florida (31-17, 13-11) would go on to score the game&#8217;s final 11 runs.<\/p>\n<p>OU pitching surrendered a season-high seven home runs in the game and tied a season-high with five hit by pitches.<\/p>\n<p>Sooner starting left-handed pitcher <a href=\"https:\/\/soonersports.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/cord-rager\/19886\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"19886\" target=\"_blank\">Cord Rager<\/a> fanned seven in the game, his fourth appearance in 10 starts with seven-plus strikeouts.<\/p>\n<p>The Gators took the series with the Sunday victory. OU fell to 12-12 in SEC play and 4-4 in conference series.<\/p>\n<p>Pitchers of Record<\/p>\n<p>Win: Russell Sandefer (3-2)<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nLoss: <a href=\"https:\/\/soonersports.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/cord-rager\/19886\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"19886\" target=\"_blank\">Cord Rager<\/a> (3-3)<\/p>\n<p>Statistical Snapshot<\/p>\n<p>Up Next<\/p>\n<p>The Sooners play their final road series of the season in Fayetteville, Ark., at No. 22 Arkansas, May 8-10. The series can be seen on SEC Network+ and heard on The REF 99.3 FM\/1400 AM.<\/p>\n<p>For updates and more information on Oklahoma baseball, follow the Sooners on X and Instagram (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OU_Baseball\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@OU_Baseball<\/a>) and like\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/OklahomaBaseball\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oklahoma Baseball<\/a>\u00a0on Facebook.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NORMAN \u2014 No. 15 Oklahoma fell in the series finale to No. 25 Florida Sunday afternoon by a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257086,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-257085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}