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| Quick Stats |
OKST |
OKLA |
| Runs |
0 |
1 |
| Hits |
6 |
3 |
| Walks |
0 |
1 |
| Hit Into Double Plays |
1 |
2 |
| Runners Left On Base |
5 |
2 |
| Stolen Bases - Caught Stealing |
0-0 |
0-0 |
| Sacrifices |
0 |
0 |
| Errors |
0 |
0 |
| Strikeouts |
8 |
10 |
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| Hitting |
H-AB |
R |
RBI |
TB |
SB |
| Ginther (OSU) |
2-3 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| Carey (OU) |
1-3 |
1 |
1 |
4 |
0 |
| Pitching |
IP |
H |
R |
ER |
SO |
| W - Okert (OU) |
1.2 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
| L - Heaney (OSU) |
8.0 |
3 |
1 |
1 |
8 |
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By Wendell Barnhouse | wendell@big12sports.com
Big12Sports.com Correspondent
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. – Garrett Carey had a succinct and accurate description of his first home run this season.
"I got an inside pitch that I could handle," he said. "Luckily my barrel found the ball and the rest is history."
Indeed. Carey's lead off shot to left field gave No. 4 seed Oklahoma a 1-0 victory over No. 5 seed Oklahoma State Wednesday in Game One of the Phillips 66 Big 12 Baseball Championship. The Sooners (36-21) advance to Thursday's winners' bracket game against Baylor, which defeated Kansas State 11-1. The Cowboys will face the Wildcats at 9 a.m. with the loser eliminated.
Carey helped make history with one swing. The game took 1:51 to play – the fastest in Big 12 Championship history. It was the first shutout in the Championship since 2006 when Missouri shut out Oklahoma, 11-0. And it gave OU an 8-0 record over Oklahoma State in the Bedlam version of the Big 12 Championship.
Big 12 pitcher of the year Andrew Heaney took the loss despite another brilliant performance. He allowed three hits and struck out eight in eight innings. Before Carey's homer, Heaney had a string of 16 consecutive scoreless innings. A junior projected as a first-round pick, he might have made his last start for the Cowboys (32-24).
"This is a special kid right here," Oklahoma State coach Frank Anderson said of Heaney. "He's one of the best pitchers in this league ever. It hasn't always been easy. He didn't come in as a freshman and dominate right away. He had to go through it and fight through it. Now, he's the best left-hander in the country."
A .210 hitter who had seven extra base hits (all doubles), Carey was an unlikely hero to end the game with one swing.
"Garrett Carey is a guy that has struggled at the plate but the best thing he as done is stay tough all year and to continue to make adjustments at the plate," Oklahoma coach Sunny Golloway. "He buys in and never questions what we ask him to do and when the ball left the yard that is when I told him."
Dillon Overton went 7.1 innings and allowed six hits while striking out eight, equaling his career high. Oklahoma State put the first two runners on in the eighth inning but the Cowboys failed to bunt the runners into scoring position. With one out, Steven Okert relieved Overton and retired the five hitters he faced to get the win.
"Today my changeup was working really well and I had a lot of movement on it and I was able to throw it behind in the count and ahead in the count, it didn't really matter," Overton said. "Everything pretty much worked today."
OU second baseman Jack Mayfield made two sparkling defensive plays to back Overton. In the seventh, he helped erase Oklahoma State's leadoff single. Mayfield dove to his right to snag Randy McCurry's hard grounder. A glove-hand flip to shortstop Caleb Bushyhead started a double play.