Kansas Drops Midweek Game at No. 17 TCU

Tuesday, March 10

Fort Worth, Texas

6 p.m. CT

University of Kansas

10-6

TCU

10--6

Kansas

TCU

Kansas Drops Midweek Game at No. 17 TCU

3/11/2026 1:11:00 PM | Baseball

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FORT WORTH, Texas – Kansas baseball fell 9-4 to No. 17 TCU in a non-conference matchup at Lupton Stadium. The game was suspended on Tuesday evening with one out in the top of the ninth inning and TCU leading 9-2 when inclement weather moved into the area. TCU recorded the final two outs on Wednesday to finish the game.

Carter Fink started on the mound for Kansas and went 1.2 innings, allowing three runs but only one earned run. Manning West, Kannon Carr and Daniel Lopez all had scoreless relief outings.

HOW IT HAPPENED
• TCU (10-6) scored an unearned run in the first inning on a sacrifice fly to take a 1-0 lead.
• The Horned Frogs extended their advantage to 3-0 in the second inning. The first run came in to score on a throwing error and another run scored on a balk.
• TCU stretched its lead with a five-run fourth inning. A run scored on an RBI single by Cole Cramer and Chase Brunson hit a grand slam to make it an 8-0 game.
• Another run scored in the sixth inning on an RBI triple off the bat of Sawyer Strosnider. That brought the score to 9-0.
• Kansas (10-6) scored four runs in the top of the ninth inning. Dariel Osoria had an RBI single and Augusto Mungarrieta hit an RBI double to make it 9-2. That is where the game was suspended on Tuesday.
• Upon play resuming on Wednesday, Savion Flowers had a pinch-hit, 2-out, 2-run single to bring the score to 9-4.

PITCHERS OF RECORD
Win: Zack James (2-0)
Final line: 4.2 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 5 SO
Loss: Carter Fink (0-1)
Final line: 1.2 IP, 3 H, 3 R, 1 ER, 2 BB, 1 SO

QUOTABLES & NOTABLES
"Baseball is a goofy sport where we've got all kinds of continuation rules and suspended games. Yesterday, there was weather early in the day. TCU didn't feel like we had a window early to play, so we stuck with the original start time. Then, we had a suspended game. Prior to the game, you have to call it at the plate meeting. Looking at the weather, I think the concern was that we get an hour and 15 minutes into a game, get lightning, and you're in the third inning and you want to be able to finish today. There is no way of reversing that once you've done it at the plate meeting, so once we got deep into the game it was still in a suspended game status if it were to not be completed." – Head Coach Dan Fitzgerald

"Obviously, love the fact that we scored runs in the ninth. I hate the fact that we were not great offensively up to that. We continue to hit balls hard, but that gets old talking about because we need to do it more consistently. The more you do it, the more they drop. I thought, obviously, the fourth inning killed us and the grand slam was not how it was mapped out. This game is hard, but you make it harder on yourself sometimes by not executing the plan." – Head Coach Dan Fitzgerald

• The game did not count as a conference game.
• Mungarrieta recorded his fourth multi-hit game of the season.

UP NEXT
Kansas will start Big 12 play this weekend at Texas Tech. The three-game series is set to start on Friday, March 13 at 6:30 p.m. CT from Dan Law Field at Rip Griffin Park.