Baylor catcher units tourney file with 11 RBIs
LOS ANGELES — Baylor’s Shea Langeliers set an NCAA baseball event file with 11 RBIs because the Bears defeated Omaha 24-6 on Saturday and eradicated the Mavericks from the Los Angeles Regional.
The earlier file was 10 RBIs, shared by Vanderbilt’s Connor Kaiser (2018) and Miami’s Kevin Brown (2001).
The junior catcher went 5-for-6, together with three residence runs. Greater than half of Langeliers’ RBIs got here within the sixth and seventh innings, with a three-run double and a three-run homer.
“One by way of 9, all people believes in one another on this group and anyone is able to doing what I did in the present day. That is a group accolade,” Langeliers stated. “I simply got here up in the correct conditions and occurred to return by way of. It was an important group effort in the present day, all people was on base, all people was getting hits.”
Langeliers is the No. 12 total prospect for subsequent week’s MLB draft, in response to ESPN’s Keith Legislation.
Baylor scored a run in each inning however the eighth and had 23 hits, 13 of which went for further bases. Josh Bissonette added 4 hits, and Andy Thomas, Richard Cunningham and Nick Loftin had three apiece as 10 Baylor gamers registered at the very least one hit.
Paul Dickens went 6⅔ innings for Baylor and allowed six runs on seven hits with 5 strikeouts.
Joey Machado began for Omaha and was certainly one of six pitchers used. The sophomore surrendered three runs on three hits in 1⅔ innings.
Breyden Eckhout had three hits, and Parker Smejkal drove in three runs for the Mavericks, who conclude their season at 31-24-1.
The Bears (35-18) will face the loser of the UCLA-Loyola Marymount sport on Sunday.
The Related Press contributed to this report.