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Damian Bravo has sixth straight multi-RBI game: Texas Tech baseball takeaways
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The start of Big 12 play arrives next weekend for the Texas Tech baseball team when the 19th-ranked Red Raiders host Texas. The Red Raiders haven't look past overmatched opponents the past two weekends on the way to the exciting stuff.
Tech completed a three-game sweep of Gardner-Webb on Sunday, winning 9-5 at Dan Law Field/Rip Griffin Park with Damian Bravo driving in three runs and the bullpen picking up starting pitcher Jack Washburn .
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Tech (9-2) won its sixth game in a row. The Red Raiders swept a three-gamer from Texas Southern last weekend, winning 32-5, 20-4 and 16-5. They won the first two of the Gardner-Webb series 10-7 and 29-3.
Peter Copabianco and Alec Burns homered for Gardner-Webb (2-9), which has lost five in a row.
Here are quick takeaways from Sunday's game:
Can Damian Bravo keep it up when Big 12 play starts?
The Red Raiders' left fielder had his sixth consecutive multi-RBI game, driving in three runs. They were timely ones, too. The sophomore from Haltom delivered a sacrifice fly in the fourth inning, tying the game 4-4, and lined a go-ahead, two-run single off the pitcher's mound and up the middle in the sixth, making it 6-4.
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Bravo, who finished 1 for 3 with a hit by pitch, is batting .568 for the season with 22 runs batted in. He went into Sunday leading the Big 12 in seven offensive categories.
Good day for Texas Tech relief pitchers
Jack Washburn yielded a two-run homer to Copabianco in the third inning, and Gardner-Webb chased him when the four of the first five batters reached safely in the fourth.
The bullpen had his back, yielding one run on four hits over 5 2/3 innings. Winning pitcher Trendan Parish (1-0), Josh Sanders and Parker Hutyra struck out six and walked one.
Parish fanned the first two batters he faced to escape the jam he inherited from Washburn and wound up allowing one hit in 2 2/3 scoreless innings. Sanders and Hutyra followed Parish, and the only run either yielded was when Burns hit a solo shot off Sanders in the seventh.
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Texas Tech baseball schedule for next week
The Red Raiders are scheduled to take on New Mexico at 3 p.m. Tuesday before welcoming Texas for a three-game series that begins Big 12 play. The Longhorns and Tech meet at 6:30 p.m. Friday, 2 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday.
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Texas Tech right fielder Damian Bravo, shown in a game last season, hit a game-winning home run in the 11th inning Saturday to lift the Red Raiders over Central Florida 3-2.
This article originally appeared on Lubbock Avalanche-Journal: Damian Bravo keeps multi-RBI streak going: Texas Tech baseball takeaways
