No. 10 Texas Tech baseball closes its first home stand of the season with a two-game midweek series against Texas Southern, starting Tuesday at Dan Law Field at Rip Griffin Park.
The Red Raiders (3-3) and Tigers (0-7) announced an adjusted schedule for the series Sunday evening that features a 3 p.m. first pitch on Tuesday and a 1 p.m. start on Wednesday. Due to the rescheduled Red Raider men's basketball game on Tuesday, only Wednesday's game will be available on Big 12 Now on ESPN+.
Red Raider fans can listen to the radio call for both games on the Texas Tech Sports Network and follow along pitch-by-pitch via live stats on www.TexasTech.com.
Fans are encouraged to check www.TexasTech.com for ticket availability for upcoming home games. Season ticket holders who are unable to attend a game in which they have tickets are encouraged to utilize Texas Tech's mobile ticketing transfer platform to ensure their seats are used on gameday.
MIDWEEK PRIMER
This will be the first midweek matchup of the season for the Red Raiders. Tech enters the series with a 69-33 record in midweek games under head coach Tim Tadlock, including a 43-10 mark at home.
Tuesday will be the third matchup all-time between Texas Tech and Texas Southern on the diamond. The Red Raiders swept a pair of midweek contests in 2017 by scores of 8-4 and 14-7.
Texas Tech is 13-0 all-time against members of the SWAC. Tech's last meeting with a SWAC member came last year as the Red Raiders beat Southern, 13-2 and 10-3, in a pair of midweek battles.
Texas Tech owns a 15-game home winning streak dating back to the 2019 Lubbock Super Regional. Tech went 11-0 at home in the COVID-shortened season and is off to a 3-0 start this season. Including the 2019 Lubbock Regional, Tech has won 20 consecutive home games against teams outside the Big 12.
WEEKEND RECAPS
The Red Raiders opened their home slate over the weekend with a three-game sweep of Houston Baptist. Tech hit .402 as a team, racked up 43 hits and outscored the Huskies 37-6 for the series. Defensively, the Red Raiders committed only one error on the weekend while the pitching staff walked just five batters and struck out 24.
The Tigers suffered a sweep at Incarnate Word over the weekend on top of a 20-0 loss at TCU in their midweek. The Tigers were outscored 41-12 by UIW over the three-game set.
PITCHING MATCHUP
Texas Tech will go with sophomore right-hander Micah Dallas (0-1, 6.75 ERA) on Tuesday and freshman right-hander Chase Hampton (0-0, 13.50 ERA) on Wednesday. Dallas, who has 14 career starts, will make his first midweek start, while Hampton is receiving the first start of his college career.
Texas Southern is going with freshman right-hander Bryson Armstrong (0-1, 11.25 ERA) on Tuesday and is TBD for Wednesday. Armstrong allowed five runs on five hits in 2.0 innings at Houston on opening weekend, but followed with 2.0 shutout innings at UIW on Saturday.
NOTES & NUMBERS
The Red Raider offense is once again off to a strong start as it leads the Big 12 and ranks 18th in the country scoring 9.2 runs per game.
Tech also leads the Big 12 in runs, slugging percentage and on-base percentage.
Individually, a Red Raider enters Tuesday leading the conference in hits (Cal Conley, 12), RBI (Nate Rombach, 9) and base-on-balls (Dylan Neuse, 9).
Tech has two of the top four batting leaders in Rombach (3rd) and Conley (4th).
