The Texas baseball program collected a win its 500 Big 12 game (261- 239 overall) as senior left-hander Cameron Smith led the No. 17 Red Raiders to a 9-3 win over the Kansas Jayhawks at Dan Law Field at Rip Griffin Park on Saturday.

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Smith (3-2) allowed two runs, one earned, in seven innings of work allowing eight hits, walking three and recorded five strike outs.

Saturday marked the sixth straight start in which Smith went at least five innings this season.

Smith is now 11-7 on the mound in his Tech career. He is the current active leader for the Tech staff in career wins.

Junior right-handed pitcher Dalton Brown pitched the final two innings without allowing an earned run on three hits and allowing one walk.

The Red Raiders (17-10, 2-3) turned four double plays, including one in the ninth, rebounding from Friday’s  7-4 loss to Kansas (10-16,1-1).The  Red Raiders lead the nation with 40 double plays on the season

At the plate, Tech pounded out 12 base hits. Eight Red Raider starters had at least one hit, while Tyler Neslony, Eric Gutierrez, Orlando Garcia, and Quinn Carpenter collected two hits each. THe

heffort was Gutierrez’s ninth multi-hit game of the season and 43rd of his Tech career.

Bryant Burleson hit a solo homer for his second round-trpper of the season.

Capenter’s two hits lifted the junior right fielder too 5-for-6 in the first two games of the three game set. This represents the first time Carpenter has collected multiple  hits during the 2015 season.

Garcia, Gutierrez, and senior shortstop, Tim Proudfoot, drove in two runs each.

Tech batted .429 (9-for-21) with runners on base and .400 (6-for-15) with runners in scoring position.

Kansas starter Blake Weiman dropped to 0-4 on the season allowing seven earned runs on 10 hits in five innings with a strikeout and a walk.

The win snapped Tech’s four-game losing streak, and evened the Big 12 Conference  series at one game each. The rubber match was scheduled for 1 p.m. Sunday at Rip Griffin Park.

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