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Frogs get back in the win column with 5-2 win
April 30, 2008
ARLINGTON, Texas - The TCU Horned Frogs got back in the win column on Wednesday night with a 5-2 victory over UT-Arlington. The Frogs used a pair of two-run innings to help propel them to the win. Paul Gerrish earned his fourth win of the season and Taylor Cragin notched his first save of the season. Matt Carpenter had a triple and an RBI to lead the TCU offense. Paul Gerrish worked out of a mini-jam in the bottom of the first and the Frogs carried the momentum into the next inning as they struck for two runs on just one hit. Bryan Holaday was plunked on the left side with one out. Matt Carpenter followed with a triple to the gap in right center for the 1-0 lead. Hunt Woodruff dropped down a beautiful suicide squeeze to plate Carpenter for the 2-0 Horned Frog lead. TCU kept adding to its lead in the third inning as it tacked on two more runs on a pair of hits. Ben Carruthers led off the frame with a two-strike double to left field. An errant pick-off throw moved him up 90 feet where he scored on a base hit by Bryan Kervin. Two wild pitches later, Kervin was on third where he was able to score on a long sacrifice fly off the bat of Chris Ellington. After retiring nine straight batters, Gerrish found himself in a jam in the fourth inning. He hit two batters in a row before getting the second out of the inning. A two-out infield single got the Mavericks on the board as Evan Raley drove home UTA's first run of the game. Gerrish got through five innings for the Frogs, allowing just the one run on four hits in the win. He walked one and struck out four before giving way to Trent Appleby in the sixth inning. The Frogs picked up a run in the top of the eighth inning to regain their four run lead. Clint Arnold singled through the right side with one out and moved to second on a Grant Varner balk. Chris Ellington reached on an infield single, but a misplay by the shortstop allowed Arnold to score the Frogs' fifth run of the game. UT-Arlington looked like they had something going in the bottom of the inning as they had three hits and a run in before an out was recorded. Appleby did a great job to get out of the jam and got some help from his defense behind him. With runners on first and second, Justin McPherson bounced a ball up the middle that second baseman Carruthers made a diving stop on. He flipped to Kervin on the base, who turned the 4-6-3 twin killing with a strike to Matt Vern at first. Taylor Cragin came on in the ninth to tally his first save of the season. He pitched around a lead-off single, striking out Danny Slinkman to end the game. TCU improves to 30-16 on the season. They will return to league play as they try and maintain their half-game advantage over New Mexico. The Utah Utes will head to Fort Worth for a three-game series beginning Friday night at 6:30 p.m. Tyler Lockwood will get the call for the Frogs.
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