{"id":270813,"date":"2026-04-29T03:57:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T03:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/270813\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T03:57:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T03:57:19","slug":"mavericks-fall-to-baylor-in-weather-shortened-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/270813\/","title":{"rendered":"Mavericks Fall to Baylor in Weather-Shortened Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                     WACO, Texas \u2013 Baylor defeated UT Arlington 6-2 on Tuesday night at Baylor Ballpark in a game that was called after six innings due to a lightning delay.<\/p>\n<p>The Mavericks took an early 1-0 lead in the first inning when <a href=\"https:\/\/utamavs.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/xavier-melendez\/14685\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14685\" target=\"_blank\">Xavier Melendez<\/a> drove in <a href=\"https:\/\/utamavs.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/harold-laracuente\/14708\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14708\" target=\"_blank\">Harold Laracuente<\/a> with a groundout. UTA added another run in the third when Melendez reached on a fielder&#8217;s choice, plating Laracuente to make it 2-0.<\/p>\n<p>Baylor answered with two runs in the second on Dylan Perez&#8217;s two-run single and seized control with three runs in the third inning. Former Maverick <a href=\"https:\/\/utamavs.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/tyce-armstrong\/14425\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14425\" target=\"_blank\">Tyce Armstrong<\/a> started the rally with a solo home run, and the Bears added two more runs to take a 5-2 lead.<\/p>\n<p>Armstrong, now playing for Baylor, added another solo shot in the sixth inning before the game was halted due to lightning and eventually called.<\/p>\n<p>Laracuente and <a href=\"https:\/\/utamavs.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/hank-harp\/14722\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14722\" target=\"_blank\">Hank Harp<\/a> each recorded two hits for the Mavericks, who finished with five hits on the night.<\/p>\n<p>PITCHING PROFILE<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/utamavs.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/dylan-skolfield\/14723\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14723\" target=\"_blank\">Dylan Skolfield<\/a> worked 1.2 innings, allowing two runs on two hits with one strikeout. <a href=\"https:\/\/utamavs.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/landon-murphy\/14726\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14726\" target=\"_blank\">Landon Murphy<\/a> took the loss gaving up three runs on three hits over 1.1 innings. <a href=\"https:\/\/utamavs.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/charlie-giese\/14716\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14716\" target=\"_blank\">Charlie Giese<\/a> pitched 2.1 scoreless innings with one strikeout.<\/p>\n<p>ON DECK<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nThe Mavericks travel to TCU on Wednesday for a 6:30 p.m. first pitch.&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>-#BuckEm-<\/p>\n<p>FOLLOW THE MAVS<br \/>\nFor the latest news on UTA Baseball, visit UTAMavs.com or follow the Mavericks on social media. Follow the Mavericks on X @UTAMavsBSB, on Instagram @UTAMavsBSB, and on Facebook at Facebook.com\/UTAMavsBSB.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; WACO, Texas \u2013 Baylor defeated UT Arlington 6-2 on Tuesday night at Baylor Ballpark&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270814,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151],"class_list":["post-270813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270813","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=270813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}