T.J. Pompey grand slam one of school record 9 HRs in Texas Tech baseball blowout
The Texas Tech baseball team launched a school-record nine home runs, including a solo shot and a grand slam by T.J. Pompey, and beat Abilene Christian 21-3 Wednesday night in a non-conference road game.
Gavin Kash, Cade McGee and Drew Woodcox also homered twice each and Texas Tech (25-9) won by run rule in seven innings.
Woodcox's two-run homer in the sixth broke the program record. Tech hit eight home runs in 1984 and 1996 games against Baylor and in 1997 against Missouri.
Tracer Lopez drove in four runs with a three-run homer and a single. Kash finished 4 for 5 with three runs batted in and four scored. Pompey was 3 for 5 with five RBIs and four runs, and Damian Bravo, Woodcox, McGee and Lopez had two hits apiece of the Red Raiders' 17.
Kash homered leading off the game, and McGee homered in the second. In the third, Lopez's three-run shot and Pompey's solo drive made the score 8-0. Woodcox and McGee went deep in a five-run fourth, and Pompey's slam and Kash's solo shot highlighted a six-run fifth.
Hudson Luce (2-0), the third of five Tech pitchers, got the win. He allowed a walk in 2 1/3 scoreless innings.
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Here are takeaways:
Texas Tech is heating up
The Red Raiders have won seven games in a row for the second time this season. The first six were the last game of a Big 12 series at Central Florida and sweeps this past week of home series against Stanford and Houston.
From Feb. 23 through March 5, Tech strung together three home victories each against Texas Southern and Gardner-Webb and one at New Mexico.
Time to turn the page
Tech won a laugher at ACU (19-14), but the competition heats back up right away.
Tech plays a three-game series Friday through Sunday at preseason Big 12 favorite TCU (20-11, 5-10), followed by a two-game series at No. 1 Arkansas (29-3), currently on a 10-game win streak. The Red Raiders are back home for three April 19-21 against Big 12 co-leader West Virginia (19-13, 8-4).
Packing the power bats
Pompey has two grand slams and 11 RBIs in three games, raising his season totals to seven homers and 42 RBIs. The other slam came Saturday in a 15-12 win over Houston.
Kash has homered in back-to-back games, and Woodcox had his second two-homer game of the season.
This article originally appeared on Lubbock Avalanche-Journal: T.J. Pompey slam one of school record 9 HRs in Texas Tech baseball blowout
