{"id":236977,"date":"2026-04-06T09:45:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T09:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/236977\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T09:45:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T09:45:19","slug":"late-surge-burns-gem-pushes-tech-past-uh-11-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/236977\/","title":{"rendered":"Late surge, Burns\u2019 gem, pushes Tech past UH 11-2"},"content":{"rendered":"

LUBBOCK, Texas \u2013 Redshirt Freshman Jackson Burns<\/a> tossed six innings of two run ball to power Texas Tech to an 11-2 win over Houston Saturday afternoon at Dan Law Field at Rip Griffin Park. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Held to just two hits through five innings, the Texas Tech (18-13, 5-7 Big 12) offense exploded with three in the sixth and seven runs in the seventh to salvage the series finale. <\/p>\n

In the win, the Red Raiders scored double-digit runs for the 17th time in the season’s first 31 games. <\/p>\n

A day after breaking out for 22 hits, the Red Raiders had just nine on Saturday, but drew 13 walks and were hit by two pitches. <\/p>\n

The game, which ended with one out in the eighth and the Red Raiders just one run away from a run-rule victory, was called due to a previously determined drop time of 3:15 p.m. <\/p>\n

Starting in the series finale for the fourth-straight week, Burns allowed just a two-run home run to Houston’s (15-15, 3-9 Big 12) Cade Clime in the top of the second over his six strong innings. <\/p>\n

Burns scattered four hits and struck out six UH batters. <\/p>\n

Down 2-0 heading to the bottom of the fourth, Texas Tech used a one-out Matt Quintanar<\/a> walk and a Tracer Lopez<\/a> single up the middle to put the tying runs on base. <\/p>\n

Down in the count 0-2, Tech SS Coleman Ryan<\/a> lifted a sac-fly that scored Quintanar to cut the Cougar lead in half. Ryan who went 2-for-3 on Saturday afternoon drove in two runs and also scored twice. <\/p>\n

With both Burns and UH starter Paul Schmitz firing zeros in the fifth, the game remained 2-1 UH until the bottom of the sixth, when the Red Raiders used four, two out walks and an infield single to strike for three runs. <\/p>\n

The three runs for the Red Raiders came on back-to-back-to-back walks. <\/p>\n

Returning for the seventh in a 4-2 game, Burns issues a six-pitch lead-off walk to UH’s Easton Winfield to bring the tying run to the plate in the form of Clime. <\/p>\n

Already with a two-run home run to his account off of Burns, the Red Raiders turned reliever Logan Bevis<\/a> who got Clime to bounce into a 6-4-3 GDP and struck out pinch-hitter Carsten Sabathia III to fire a zero. <\/p>\n

Armed with the momentum, the Red Raiders struck for seven runs in the bottom-half of the to take an 11-2 lead. Amongst the big hits in the bottom of the seventh was a two-run RBI single from left fielder Connor Shouse<\/a> as well as back-to-back doubles from Logan Hughes<\/a> and Linkin Garcia<\/a>. The first double from Hughes scored one run, while the Garcia two-base hit scored two. <\/p>\n

Returning for the top of the eighth, Bevis tossed a 1-2-3 eighth, to seal the Red Raiders game three win. <\/p>\n

Despite losing the weekend series two games to one, the Red Raiders did outscore UH 27-23 and out hit the Cougars 42-29. <\/p>\n

Led by Caden Ferraro’s<\/a> .556 (5-for-9) average, five different Red Raiders hit at least .400 on the weekend. <\/p>\n

UP NEXT:

\nThe Red Raiders return to action on Tuesday afternoon for a midweek contest in Albuquerque against New Mexico. First pitch from the Lobo Baseball Field is set for 3 p.m. (CT)\/2 p.m. (MT). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas \u2013 Redshirt Freshman Jackson Burns tossed six innings of two run ball to power Texas Tech…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236978,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":{"0":"post-236977","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lubbock","8":"tag-lubbock","9":"tag-lubbock-headlines","10":"tag-lubbock-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}