Fansided · Feb 28, 2020
Texas Tech baseball: Small ball helps Red Raiders past FAU
In the Texas Tech baseball team’s 7-1 win over Florida Atlantic on Friday afternoon, it was a big inning that came about by small ball that was the difference.
It isn’t common for a team throwing a no-hitter to be in a fight for its life in the middle innings of a game but that was what the Texas Tech baseball team was facing Friday afternoon. Squaring off with Florida Atlantic in Tallahassee, Florida, the Red Raiders were tied with the Owls 1-1 after six innings and up just 2-1 after seven.
But in a 3-run 8th inning, Tech used small ball to blow the game open on the way to a 7-1 win. Sending eight men to the plate in the inning, Tech had five hits, four of which didn’t leave the infield.