TCU baseball dropped the series finale to UCF 9-1 as Sawyer Strosnider hit his eighth home run and the Horned Frogs managed only three hits.
TCU baseball couldn’t build on Saturday’s momentum and paid for it quickly Sunday afternoon.
The Horned Frogs fell 9-1 to UCF at Lupton Stadium, dropping the weekend series and slipping to 13-10 overall and 2-4 in Big 12 play.
From the opening inning on, TCU was chasing the game, and against a UCF club that kept applying pressure, there was never much room to recover.
The Knights jumped out early, putting three runs on the board in the first inning and forcing TCU into catch-up mode almost immediately.
UCF kept adding on, stretching the lead to 6-0 through four innings before padding the margin again late. By the time the Horned Frogs finally got on the scoreboard, the game had long since tilted out of reach.
TCU’s offense just never found traction. The Frogs finished with only three hits, one of their lowest totals of the season, and while they did put runners on base in seven different innings, the timely swing never came. Jack Bell gave TCU a little life with a leadoff double in the sixth, but the breakthrough didn’t arrive until the eighth.
That moment belonged to Sawyer Strosnider. Locked into a 13-pitch battle, Strosnider finally won the at-bat with a two-out solo homer, his eighth of the season and 19th of his career.
It was the one clean offensive highlight on an otherwise frustrating afternoon for a lineup that struggled to string anything together.
On the mound, Trever Baumler was tagged with the loss after allowing five runs on six hits in two innings. Nate Stern provided a steady stretch with 1.1 scoreless innings, and Noah Franco returned to the mound later in the game.
TCU’s defense did flash some sharp moments, turning three double plays to keep things from getting even uglier.
Still, the bigger issue was obvious. The Frogs didn’t hit enough, and they put themselves in too deep a hole too early.
Now TCU turns the page and heads on the road for a midweek matchup at DBU, looking for a faster start and a much better finish.
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