Next Game: Incarnate Word 2/27/2019 | 6:30 p.m. SEC+ 1150 AM/102.7 FM

Rob Childress

Bryce Miller

Joseph Menefee

Logan Foster

Bryce Blaum

– The Texas A&M Aggies defeated the Houston Baptist Huskies, 12-5, Tuesday evening on Olsen Field at Blue Bell Park to move to 8-1 on the season.The Aggie pitching staff combined for a season-high 16 strikeouts, the seventh 10-plus strikeout performance of the season.Startermatched his career high with eight strikeouts. The southpaw tossed 4.1 innings, allowing two runs, one earned, on two hits and two walks.(2-0) earned the win, giving up one run on two hits and one walk, while fanning three in 1.2 innings of work.retired all six batters he faced with four strikeouts.Five Aggies had multiple hits on the night, including, who recorded his fifth multi-hit game of the season as he went 2-for-4 with two walks and two runs.andadded two hits apiece.earned four free passes, one shy of the single game school record set byin 2015 against UT-Pan American.The Aggies return to action Wednesday as they face the Incarnate Word Cardinals with first pitch at 6:32 p.m.B1| Blaum got things started for the Aggies after drawing a lead-off walk and stealing second before touching home on asingle. Frizzell reached base on a walk followed by a base hit from Walters, plating Shewmake. Frizzell added a run after taking advantage of a passed ball. A&M 3, HBU 0T2| A solo shot from Brandon Bena to left, cut the Aggies' lead to two. A&M 3, HBU 1B4| Blaum singled up the middle beforedelivered a double to center to score him.earned a four-pitch walk to land on first and Foster took advantage of a wild pitch by HBU's pitcher to touch home. Frizzell laced a single through the left side, plating Hoehner to conclude scoring in the fourth. A&M 6, HBU 1T5| Cal Clark singled to center, Chase Talbot produced an infield single and Johnny Gonzales reached base on catcher's interference to load the bases for the Huskies. A throwing error by the Aggies' defense allowed Clark and Talbot to score. A&M 6, HBU 3B5| Zach Deloach andeach earned a free pass before Shewmake singled up the middle to plate Deloach. Foster added a run on a wild pitch. A&M 8, HBU 3B8| Frizzell delivered a base hit up the middle beforeearned a walk.delivered a two-RBI double to left, platingwho pinch ran for Frizzell and. The Aggies' final two runs of the game were recorded as Deloach reached on a fielding error and was plated, along with, on a Foster single to left. A&M 12, HBU 3T9| Matt Solomon blasted a pinch-hit homer over the left field wall. Talbot was hit by a pitch, advanced to third after a single and throwing error, before touching home on a wild pitch. A&M 12, HBU 5"It was a long evening on Sunday, and a long day yesterday, we were very fortunate to get out there and play today. A lot of hard work by our grounds keeping staff, Nick and crew did a good job, and we needed to get out here to get that taste out of our mouth. I'm very proud of what we did offensively,battled his tail off and avoided a big inning, get away from us there in the third. We mix and matched late in the game,got extended for the first time this year and was really good. All in all, I'm very proud of our team.""A Couple of mistakes defensively, to create a higher pitch count of him, but his fastball is continuing to get better, a lot of 94's and 95's tonight. He was also really good for us on Saturday, so he is going to be a guy that we are going to look to early in games, when we have to go to the bullpen and try to get us five or six outs there in the sixth seventh inning.""We pride ourselves as a team on not walking people, so with a big lead, you just want to throw the ball over the plate and trust my defense to make plays. I just happened that my stuff was good enough to punch people out.""Coach Childress preaches on coming out of the bullpen, and If the other team has moment, just put a end to it. Our bullpen so far has been lights out, it's just all the hard work we put in. Any one called out of the bullpen, we all have full faith that they are going to get their job done. ""You know that speaks a lot about this team. Other teams could still be focused on what happened Sunday. We could've, but we put it to bed Sunday night. A lot of our guys came out here Monday to put in some work, and got us ready to rock 'n roll.""That definitely sets the tone; we were surely on our toes from the very beginning.""You know that was huge for Zack. A lot of us have been struggling at the plate, and that shows a lot of maturity out of him to be able to get those four walks, still being patient, and being ready to swing the bat in that last inning.""We left Sunday with a bitter taste in our mouth, because we didn't play the way we know we are capable of playing. Today in the hitters' game, our coaches preached just play easy and free. We know we have the talent to do it, as you see we put up 12 runs. That's the type of offense we know we have, and we just hope to build on that day in and day out.""We did a great job one through nine just passing the bat down. Zack DeLoach took four walks today, that's the first time I've ever seen that in a game. Getting on base anyway, anyhow is what we preach, and we did a great job of that tonight.""We just stuck to the approach tonight, and bought in to it. We dominated the fastball that were strikes, when they threw the spinner we stayed through the big part of the plate, and didn't slow our bat down. We were just happy we could see what we could do and build on that."