Whew. Thankfully for the Oklahoma baseball team, close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades.The No.
9 Sooners held off Texas-Arlington on Tuesday night 7-6, getting a two-out, walk-off single from Easton Carmichael to pick up the midweek win. Skip Johnson's team lifted its record to 18-2 with the victory.UTA tied the game at six on a solo home run by nine-hole hitter Austin Phillips.
They'd pulled within a run in the sixth on an RBI single from eight-hole hitter Larry Haskins. But in the bottom of the ninth, Jason Walk reached on a one-out single and moved to second when UTA couldn't turn the double-play on Dasan Harris' grounder up the middle.Then, on an 0-1 count, Carmichael singled to right field, and Walk beat the throw to the plate for the game-winning run.
The knock was Carmichael's only hit of the game, but the Sooners were bolstered by Jaxon Willits' 4-for-4 night. Willits finished a double shy of the cycle with a triple, a solo home run, and scored three runs. Walk went 2-for-4 and picked up his fourth home run of the year with a solo home run.
The Mavericks jumped on Oklahoma starter Cameron Johnson early in the game. He worked out of a bases-loaded jam in the first with a double-play to end the half-inning, but UTA chased him in the second after the first four batters of the inning reached. Jackson Kircher, Jaden Barfield, and Reid Hensley settled things for the Sooners over the final 3.
2 innings, giving up just three hits and a walk while striking out six.Okl.