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Texas Tech baseball: Red Raiders take game two vs. HBU

By Matthew Conner

SEATTLE, WASHINGTON - JULY 08: A detailed view of a gloved used by the Seattle Mariners during summer workouts at T-Mobile Park on July 08, 2020 in Seattle, Washington. (Photo by Abbie Parr/Getty Images)
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Saturday in Lubbock, the Texas Tech baseball team took the second of its three-game series against Houston Baptist.

Patrick Monteverde continues to make a great first impression.  On Saturday, the transfer starting pitcher gave the Texas Tech baseball team another strong effort on the mound helping his team to an 8-1 win over Houston Baptist in the second of a three-game series.

The lefty threw seven shutout innings while fanning nine batters in a dominant second start.  Over the course of 79 pitches, he gave up just two hits and walked none in what was an incredibly efficient outing.

After tossing four scoreless innings against Arkansas in the season opener last weekend, Monteverde has now opened his Red Raider career with 11.0 scoreless innings proving why he was such a highly-coveted transfer over the course of the offseason.

Meanwhile, the Texas Tech bats stayed hot after putting up 18 runs in Friday’s home opener.  Banging out 11 hits one day after collecting 21, the offense had three multi-run innings.

After a bit of a slow start, the offense finally got going with three runs in the fourth inning.  The key at-bat was a 10-pitch leadoff at-bat from Kurt Wilson, who drew a walk.  After advancing on a wild pitch, Wilson would then come home via a Nate Rombach single.  Cody Masters would then drive home Rombach and Braydon Runion with a seeing-eye grounder to center field.

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Though Tech would plate a run in the 6th inning and two each in the 7th and 8th, that would be all the offense Tech would need thanks to Monteverde and the pitching staff.

The Pittsburgh, PA native has been a solid addition to the roster thus far.  But it’s been a rather lengthy trip to the Division 1 level for him.

As a freshman in 2017, he played at Division III Virginia Wesleyan University in Norfolk Virginia.  There he went 7-2 with a 1.96 ERA and recorded 60 strikeouts in 82.2 innings.

The next three seasons he spent at Seton Hill University, a Division II school.  However, Tommy John’s surgery in 2019 caused him to take a redshirt season.

Now, he’s ready to take on the challenge of the Big 12 and so far, he appears up to the task.  And if he pitches all season the way he has thus far, he is going to make the Texas Tech baseball team the team to beat in the conference.

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