Baseball

KU pitcher Piche’ honored by Big 12 after one-hitter

Kansas University senior pitcher Jordan Piche’ was named the Big 12 Conference’s Pitcher of the Week, the league announced Monday.Piche’ threw a one-hit shutout in a complete-game, 1-0 victory over Baylor on Friday in Waco, Texas. Piche’ allowed his lone hit on the first at-bat of the ...

Tharp’s five RBIs drive KU to baseball sweep

Waco, Texas ? Kansas University senior center fielder Tucker Tharp drove in a career-high five runs, and senior right-hander Frank Duncan allowed 13 hits but still picked up his fifth win of the year as KU completed a Big 12 baseball sweep of Baylor with an 8-5 victory Sunday at Baylor ...

KU baseball routs BU for coach’s 1,000th victory

Waco, Texas ? The Kansas University baseball team scored six runs on seven hits in the second inning and defeated Baylor, 10-2, on Saturday for KU coach Ritch Price’s 1,000th career victory.The Jayhawks (25-20 overall, 8-9 Big 12) had six hits in a row during their second-inning surge. Dakota ...

Kansas’ Piché one-hits Baylor

Waco, Texas ? Kansas University senior Jordan Piché surrendered a leadoff hit … and nothing else.Piché pitched a complete-game one-hitter as the Jayhawks opened a three-game series at Baylor with a 1-0 victory Friday night at Baylor Ballpark.“I felt great tonight,” Piché said. ...

Kansas baseball falls to Missouri State

Kansas University surrendered three runs in the top of the ninth, and the Jayhawks losing streak hit four games with a 6-5 setback to Missouri State on Wednesday at Hoglund Ballpark.KU — which has lost nine of its last 11 games — carried a 5-3 lead into the ninth. Closer Stephen Villines ...

Homers sink KU baseball, 6-3

Stillwater, Okla. ? Senior right-handed ace Frank Duncan hadn’t surrendered a home run all season.Until Sunday.Duncan allowed two long balls, and Oklahoma State completed the Big 12 baseball sweep of Kansas University, 6-3.“He (Duncan) wasn’t as sharp today as he’s been the last four ...

KU baseball falters late, 5-3

Stillwater, Okla. ? Kansas University’s bullpen allowed four runs over the final two innings of a 5-3 Big 12 baseball loss to 13th-ranked Oklahoma State on Saturday at Allie P. Reynolds Stadium.Kansas used a two-run first and a single run in the seventh to take a 3-1 lead into the bottom of ...

KU baseball blanked by OSU, 7-0

Stillwater, Okla. ? Oklahoma State broke open a close game with a sixth-run seventh inning and defeated Kansas’ baseball team, 7-0, on Friday night.The Jayhawks had just six hits, all singles, including two by Ryan Pidhaichuk. KU managed just one hit in the last six innings.The game was ...