NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Vanderbilt passed No. 4 Texas its first shutout of the season Saturday, profitable 6-0 to even the sequence at Hawkins Box.
Freshman Aiden Stillman made his 2nd collegiate get started and struck out six Longhorns over 3.2 innings. Junior Luke Guth took at the subsequent 2.1 innings and held the Longhorns to only one hit with 4 punchouts. Any other true freshman, Tyler Baird, earned his 5th save with 3 scoreless frames to near out the win.
The 3 fingers mixed to strike out 14 Longhorns whilst preserving the visiting aspect to 5 hits.
The Commodores wasted no time on offense, clubbing a house run, triple and two doubles within the most sensible of the primary to take a 3-0 lead. Mike Mancini led off the inning with a two-bagger and scored on a triple by way of Brodie Johnston.
Braden Holcomb then introduced his thirteenth house run of the season, a no-doubter to left-center to provide the Dores a three-run lead.
Vandy added on within the 3rd with two extra extra-base hits. Holcomb led off with a unmarried and moved to 3rd on a double by way of Colin Barczi. With one out, Holcomb got here house on a groundout. Ryker Waite made it 5-0 with an RBI triple to the space in right-center.
The Commodores plated their 6th run of the evening on an error within the backside of the 7th as Mancini hustled house on a dropped throw to first base.
Holcomb completed the sport 2-for-3 with two RBI and two runs scored. Mancini additionally scored two times and went 2-for-4 on the plate. As a workforce, the Commodores totaled 11 hits to Texas’ 5.
Vanderbilt (26-18, 10-10 SEC) and No. 4 Texas (31-9, 13-6 SEC) will meet Sunday for the rubber fit at midday on ESPN2.