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Texas Tech baseball: Red Raiders complete sweep of Houston Baptist

By Matthew Conner

FORT MYERS, FL- FEBRUARY 25: A detail view of a bag of baseballs during a team workout on February 25, 2021 at the Hammond Stadium in Fort Myers, Florida. (Photo by Brace Hemmelgarn/Minnesota Twins/Getty Images)
FORT MYERS, FL- FEBRUARY 25: A detail view of a bag of baseballs during a team workout on February 25, 2021 at the Hammond Stadium in Fort Myers, Florida. (Photo by Brace Hemmelgarn/Minnesota Twins/Getty Images) /
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Sunday in Lubbock, the Texas Tech basketball team completed a sweep of Houston Baptist with an 11-2 win.

It’s hard to find many flaws in what we saw out of the Texas Tech baseball team over the weekend.  In completing a 3-game sweep of Houston Baptist by a total score of 37-6, the Red Raiders appear to have righted the ship after the disappointing 3-game losing streak that opened the 2021 season.

On Sunday, Tech again received a fantastic effort on the mound from its starting pitcher.  Over the course of five innings, Mason Montgomery allowed just a run on two hits while striking out five and walking just two.

It was the third-straight solid start for the Red Raider rotation.  The trio of Montgomery, Brandon Birdsell, and Patrick Monteverde combined to toss 16.1 innings this weekend allowing just four runs as they kept the Huskies at bay.

Meanwhile, the offense isn’t to be overlooked either.  And on Sunday, it was Kurt Wilson who had the biggest hit of the day.

With HBU leading 1-0 in the fourth following a solo homer, Wilson plated two runs on a double to give Tech the lead for good.  Later in the inning, Parker Kelly would bring home two more runs on a Parker Kelly single.  Then, with two out in the fourth, four more Red Raider runs would score thanks to base hits by Jace Jung, Dylan Neuse, and Cole Stillwell.

That would be all the offense Tech would need though the home team would tack on two more runs in the seventh and one in the eighth.  Thank god for the arrival of overmatched opponents to help end a losing streak.

Tech has now played HBU five times after a two-game set last season.  The Red Raiders have won those five games by a combined score of 66-10.  While that is to be expected, it is not to be taken for granted as anything can happen on any day in the game of baseball.

This is the Texas Tech baseball team that we all expected to see this year.  However, it took a while for the 2021 team to get out of its own way after a weekend of errors, miscues, and stranded runners spoiled the opening weekend of the season.

But this weekend was nearly flawless for Tim Tadlock’s team.  Committing just one error and leaving no doubt as to the fact that the poor opening weekend is something to be left in the past, the Red Raiders played the type of baseball that a national title contender should against an overwhelmed opponent.

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