The No. 11 Texas Tech baseball team dropped its first midweek game of the season, 12-9, at New Mexico on Wednesday from Santa Ana Star Field in Albuquerque, N.M.
The Red Raiders (19-8, 3-3 Big 12) built an 8-2 after three with a six-run third inning, but the Lobos (15-14, 6-6 MWC) put on a clinic at getting their leadoff man aboard and in, doing so in 6-of-8 innings Wednesday to score seven unanswered from the fourth through seventh frames.
After a six-run third, the Red Raiders failed to score again until a Cameron Warren two-out RBI single in the eighth that tied the game at 9-9 an inning after New Mexico took the lead. Warren led Tech at the plate, going 3-for-5 with three RBI to finish 4-for-8 in the series with two walks, five RBI and four runs scored.
New Mexico, however, regained the lead in the home half of the eighth, moving in front on a bases-loaded strikeout from redshirt freshman closer Clayton Beeter for the second out of the inning that got past sophomore catcher Braxton Fulford and allowed a run to score. A two-out single drove in two more to make it 12-9 going to the ninth.
The Red Raiders will return to Lubbock for its Big 12 home-opening series against Kansas (15-13, 1-5) Friday-Sunday. The three-game set will air on TexasTech.TV and the Texas Tech Sports Network with first pitch at 6:30 p.m. Friday, 2 p.m. Saturday and 1 p.m. Sunday.