May 28, 2021; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA; Texas Tech bench watches game action against Kansas State in the fourth inning at the Big 12 Conference Baseball Tournament at Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark. Mandatory Credit: Alonzo Adams-USA TODAY Sports
In game one of the Lubbock Super Regional, it was the Texas Tech baseball team that wilted under the record 108-degree West Texas heat, not the team from northern California. In fact, in Friday’s 15-3 Stanford victory, the home-standing Red Raiders were never really in the game.
Right off the bat, the Cardinal would plate four runs off of Red Raider starter Chase Hampton before the home team ever got to swing the bat, not that it would matter with Stanford ace Brendan Beck in top form.