@KUbaseball --- #ROCKCHALK #kubaseball KANSAS® 2021 KANSAS BASEBALL GAME NOTES KANSAS SCHEDULE PLAY BALL! RANK • The Kansas Jayhawks (20-13, 2-7 Big 12) host Big 12 foe DATE KU / OPP OPPONENT TIME / RESULT Baylor (22-11, 3-6 Big 12) April 16-18 at Hoglund Ballpark. Feb. 19 - - vs. South Dakota State W, 7-3 vs The Jayhawks last played a two-game midweek series Feb. 20 - - vs. South Dakota State L, 5-8 against Air Force, beating the Falcons in both contests Feb. 21 - - vs. South Dakota State W, 13-1 and reaching the 20-win mark on the season. The Bears Feb. 26 - - at FGCU W, 5-3 traveled to Sam Houston Tuesday and earned the victory. Feb. 27 - - at FGCU L, 5-6 • In the victories over Air Force, Kansas tallied 20 runs in Feb. 28 - - at FGCU L, 0-2 (7) APRIL 16-18 | LAWRENCE, KAN. | HOGLUND BALLPARK Feb. 28 - - at FGCU L, 2-3 (7) the two games, including 13 runs in Tuesday's contest. The March 5 - - at St. Louis L, 1-8 Jayhawks received home runs from Tavian Josenberger, March 6 - - at St. Louis W, 5-1 KANSAS BAYLOR Conner VanCleave and Jack Wagner. The trio hit their March 7 - - at St. Louis W, 7-5 (12) first home runs of the season with Wagner's sending the - - March 12 - - at Omaha W, 7-3 RANKING^ 20-13 22-11 RANKING^ Jayhawks off victorious in the eighth inning. Wagner and March 12 - - at Omaha L, 7-9 OVERALL Josenberger's homers were their first career as a Jayhawk. March 13 - - at Omaha W, 9-0 2-7 3-6 Sam Brady earned his first start Tuesday and was relieved 8TH CONF. 6th March 13 - - at Omaha W, 10-7 BIG 12 BIG 12 by Ryan Vanderhei before Nathan Barry pitched the final March 17 - - at Missouri State CANCELED 3.0 innings of relief for the victory. March 19 - - CREIGHTON 7-6 (14) Ritch Price Steve Rodriguez COACH • In the Wednesday matchup, Kansas again jumped out March 20 - - CREIGHTON W, 11-3 19th Season // 548-505-3 (.517) 6th Season // 162-109 (.598) early on Air Force, scoring all seven of its runs in the March 20 - - CREIGHTON W, 11-3 .359 .366 March 21 - - CREIGHTON W, 7-4 .276 .299 first two innings. Skyler Messinger and Tom Lichty both BATTING BATTING #12 Josenberger AVERAGE #18 McKenzie March 23 - - Lafayette W, 20-5 logged multi-RBI games, while James Cosentino hit a solo March 24 - - Lafayette CANCELED 33 43 home run for his third home run of the season. Everhett March 26 - - at West Virginia* L, 11-0 #5 Messinger 215 RUNS 220 #18 McKenzie Hazelwood earned the start and pitched through three March 27 - - at West Virginia* W, 9-2 before Steve Washilewski relieved him. Washilewski March 28 - - at West Virginia* L, 15-2 (7) 42 52 pitched the next three innings to earn his third victory of 307 HITS 332 March 30 - - MISSOURI W, 10-9 #12 Josenberger #18 McKenzie the season. April 1 - 5 TEXAS* L, 5-2, • Josenberger continues to be a menace at the plate and April 2 - 5 TEXAS* L, 7-0 122 1114 1111 142 #5 Messinger AT BATS #18 McKenzie April 3 - 5 TEXAS* L, 11-2 holds the team lead with a .359 batting average. He tallied four hits in the two games against Air Force along with April 6 - - TEXAS SOUTHERN W, 8-1 13 10 April 6 - - TEXAS SOUTHERN W, 8-0 70 57 three RBI in the first game. He also holds the team lead #5 Messinger DOUBLES #33 Pineda April 9 - - at Oklahoma* L, 10-4 with 42 hits and four triples. April 10 - - at Oklahoma* W, 8-7 (10) 4 7 8 2 • Kansas weekend rotation will feature Ryan Cyr, Cole April 11 - - at Oklahoma* L, 14-3 (7) #12 Josenberger TRIPLES Two Tied Larsen and Eli Davis. April 13 - - AIR FORCE W, 13-3 (8) - Friday: RHP Cyr (3-4, 5.47 ERA, 8 GS) April 14 - - AIR FORCE W, 7-4 3 7 RHP Larsen (4-2, 1.94 ERA, 7 GS) Three Tied 16 26 #18 McKenzie - Saturday: April 16 - - BAYLOR* 6 p.m. HOME RUNS - Sunday: LHP Davis (3-4, 6.18 ERA, 8 GS) April 17 - - BAYLOR* 2 p.m. April 18 - BAYLOR* 12 p.m. 26 38 RBI IT'S (JOSEN)BERGER TIME! April 21 - - at UT Arlington 6:30 p.m. #5 Messinger 187 204 #25 Thomas April 23 - - at TCU* 6:30 p.m. • Tavian Josenberger completed a feat that no other April 24 - - at TCU* 4 p.m. Jayhawks has in program history, rattling off six hits 24 161 131 23 against a Big 12 opponent. The freshman from Kansas City, April 25 - - at TCU* 1 p.m. #14 Vosik WALKS #9 Downey April 30 NORTH DAKOTA STATE 6 p.m. Missouri went 6-for-6 with a double and triple against the May 1 - - NORTH DAKOTA STATE 1 p.m. Sooners April 10. The six-hit performance tied a program May 2 - - NORTH DAKOTA STATE 12 p.m. 8-9 28-37 18-26 4-4 #3 Burnham SB-ATT #32 Richardson record for hits in a game with current Jayhawk assistant May 5 - - MISSOURI STATE 6 p.m. coach Ritchie Price, who belted six hits against Oakland on May 7 - - OKLAHOMA STATE* 6 p.m. Feb. 26, 2004. Josenberger sits atop the NCAA rankings May 8 - - OKLAHOMA STATE* 2 p.m. 1.88 1.02 4.97 ERA* 3.72 for hits in a game this season with seven others, and is the May 9 - - OKLAHOMA STATE* 1 p.m. #32 Ulane #41 Boyd May 14 - - KANSAS STATE* 6 p.m. only player to complete the feat against a P5 opponent. May 15 - - KANSAS STATE* 2 p.m. • Following the two-game Air Force series, Josenberger 55.2 IP 50.1 May 16 - - KANSAS STATE* 2 p.m. #27 Larsen 288.0 287.2 #16 Thomas reached a 15-game hitting streak and a 20-game reached May 18 - - at Missouri 6:30 p.m. base streak. Both team highs this season. May 20 - - at Texas Tech* 6:30 p.m. 59 SO 50 May 21 - - at Texas Tech* 6:30 p.m. #27 Larsen 248 277 #16 Thomas COLE IN CONTROL May 22 - - at Texas Tech* 1 p.m. • Cole Larsen continues to dazzle opposing batters and May 26-30 - - 2021 Big 12 Baseball Championship TBA 24 117 134 21 recorded his fourth victory of the season after another Two Tied WALKS #16 Thomas All times Central. Home games in ALL CAPS. * = conference game ALLOWED strong outing against West Virginia March 27. The win was KANSAS VS baylor the first conference win of his career. ALL-TIME: 56-22, baylor leads .152 .264 .235 .148 • Larsen allowed just six earned runs in 49 innings prior #32 Ulane B/AVG* #41 Boyd HOME: 13-23 // AWAY: 9-27// NEUTRAL: 0-6 to the series at Oklahoma. He has a 4-2 record with a 1.94 under ritch price: 20-35 ERA. He has gone at least six innings in each of his seven DATE OPPONENT OUTCOME 5 8 starts. 8 SAVES 9 4/28/17 BAYLOR L, 5-4 #32 Ulane #41 Boyd •He logged back-to-back nine strikeout performances to 4/30/17 BAYLOR L, 3-1 start the season, and logged a career-high 10 strikeouts 4/30/17 BAYLOR W, 6-1 (7) 3/23/18 at Baylor W, 6-5 KANSAS COMMUNICATIONS against Creighton March 20. In every apperance this 3/24/18 at Baylor L, 17-6 season, he has five-or-more strikeouts. 3/25/18 at Baylor W, 8-5 Brent Beerends • Larsen was named Big 12 Co-Newcomer of the Week 5/24/18 vs Baylor L, 10-5 [email protected] March 15 after a complete-game shutout against Omaha. 3/30/19 BAYLOR L, 8-2 3/30/19 BAYLOR L, 8-0 *minimum 10 innings pitched ^ USA Today Coaches Poll 3/31/19 BAYLOR W, 12-7 Kansas Jayhawks rock chalk jayhawk PRICE VS. OPPONENTS PRICE MILESTONE VICTORIES (D1 ONLY) OPPONENT RECORD Niagara 4-0 WIN DATE RESULT Air Force 6-2 North Carolina 0-1 1 02/02/1995 Cal Poly 8, Cal Lutheran 6 Alabama A&M 4-0 North Dakota 5-1 100 04/07/1998 Cal Poly 14, Santa Clara 6 Arizona State 1-3 North Dakota State 8-0 200 03/15/2002 Cal Poly 12, Sac. State 4 Arkansas 1-8 Northern Colorado 5-6 300 03/16/2005 Kansas 16, Baker 6 Arkansas-Little Rock 8-2 Northern Illinois 3-0 ~ 317 05/14/2005 Kansas 9, #20 Missouri 3 400 03/12/2008 Kansas 11, Missouri State 7 Austin Peay 1-1 Northwestern 7-1 ! 417 05/02/2008 Kansas 17, Oklahoma 15 Avila 1-0 Northwestern State 2-1 500 03/22/2011 Kansas 5, Little Rock 3 Baker 13-1 Notre Dame 0-1 # 517 02/17/2012 Kansas 7, Middle Tenn. 3 Ball State 2-1 Oakland 4-0 600 04/27/2014 Kansas 8, Baylor 5 Baylor 20-35 Ohio State 0-1 $ 617 03/15/2015 Kansas 8, Michigan 4 Belmont 4-1 Oklahoma 21-33 ^ 656 03/04/2017 Kansas 11, NW State 7 Benedictine 3-0 Oklahoma State 19-32 700 04/08/2018 Kansas 17, #5 Texas Tech, 3 Bethany College 3-0 Omaha 9-1 % 717 03/02/2019 Kansas 3, Northern Illinois 1 Bowling Green 1-0 Oral Roberts 3-6 ~ 100th win at KU, ! 200th win at KU, # 300th win at KU, $ 400th win at Bradley 2-0 Oregon State 0-3 KU, ^ 439th win at KU to become all-time winningest coach, % 500th BYU 6-5 Pacific 11-10 win at KU Centenary 1-1 Patten 1-0 Central Arkansas 0-1 Penn State 1-0 COACHING TREE RITCH PRICE Central Conn.