CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – The Texas A&M-Corpus Christi baseball team was soundly defeated in the finale of their four-game set against Kansas on Monday evening, falling by a run-rule final score of 16-0 in seven innings to drop their fourth straight game to open the new season.
Much like the last two games of the series, the Islanders (0-4) pitching staff was blitzed by the hot Jayhawks (4-0) lineup, allowing 16 runs on 15 hits in a game that quickly got out of hand. Included in this was a seven-run outburst in the first inning, with the visitors jumping all over A&M-Corpus Christi and starter
Cam Soliz from the opening gun. After the first two batters of the game were quickly retired, Kansas got a pair of runners on base and then drove in its first run of the day on an infield single. This was followed by a bases-loaded double two hitters later, and the inning was then capped off by back-to-back home runs to make it a seven-run game before the Islanders even came up to bat
The Jayhawks would put together another crooked inning in the fourth, tallying five more runs to get up into double digits for the second time in the series. The first three of these came on another big swing, when designated hitter Dariel Osoria came up with two on and crushed a long home run to left field for the third Kansas longball of the day. The next two runners after this would reach base as well, and they were promptly driven home on a base hit up the middle that increased the Islanders' deficit to 13.
This would prove to be enough to take the game to its premature finish in the seventh inning, as A&M-Corpus Christi was shut out at the plate by the Kansas pitching staff for the second consecutive night. The team tallied a total of five hits on the day, with two of those coming from senior
Cade Sanchez in a continuation of his nice start to 2025. Beyond the second baseman, the rest of the offense came via singles from seniors
Josh Blount and
Chance Reisdorph and a double by junior
Karson Krowka. The Islanders were not without chances throughout the evening, placing a runner in scoring position in three separate frames, but these potential rallies were snuffed out without any of them getting them on the board for the first time since the fourth inning on Friday.
The Islanders will now try to regroup before their next taste of game action this upcoming weekend, when they return to Whataburger Field to take part in the Kleberg Bank College Classic. They will first square off against UCLA on the first day of the tournament on Friday, with first pitch currently scheduled to take place at 6 p.m.
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