Houston: Frogs go yard (twice)

By Jonathan Yardley - June 01, 2007

TCU wasted absolutely no time in restoring its lead. Baylor's Jeff Mandel had been inducing fly ball after fly ball, recording 10 fly-ball outs in 6.1 innings, and everything hit in the air seemed to just die in a stiff cross-breeze blowing left to right. In the seventh, however, TCU's Andrew Walker crushed a fly ball to the opposite field that sailed well over the right-field wall for an impressive go-ahead home run. Walker proceeded to pull a Kirk Gibson and limp around the bases after apparently tweaking a hamstring rounding first base. Not what Jim Schlossnagle wanted to see, with his No. 3 hitter already hobbled by a hamstring injury. I'll keep you updated.

After a fly-ball out, shortstop Bryan Kervin pulled another fly ball over the right-field wall to make it 3-1 TCU. That spelled the end of the day for Mandel, who allowed only four hits. Three of the four, however, went for extra bases. Righthanded sidearmer Nick Cassavechia is on in relief for Baylor, which is only six outs away from dropping into the losers' bracket. 3-1 TCU after seven innings.