Rice University Athletics
Tuesday, May 14
Reckling Park
11:30 a.m.
Rice University
vs
Texas Southern
Grand Slam Day Closes 2024 Home Schedule
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Road Closes Out Home Schedule Grand Slam Day
Rice closes out its 2024 home baseball schedule by hosting Texas Southern at 11:30 a.m. on Tuesday for Grand Slam Day as students from area schools will attend the game. This will be the earliest start for a Rice home game since Reckling Park opened in 2000.
Watch ESPN+
Listen: Online / Varsity Network
Live Stats: Sidearm
Full Game Notes: RiceOwls.com
On the Air
J.P. Heath returns for his 16th season behind the mic calling Rice baseball and will have the simulcast call on Tuesday
Pitching Matchup
RHP Karl Ralamb (0-2, 5.17/2.30) vs. Undecided
Rice Recently
Rice and Texas Southern have met 30 times since the series began in 1986. The schools have met 27 times in the regular season and three times in NCAA Regional action. TSU took the first postseason meeting with a 4-3 win in the first round of the 2004 Regional hosted by Rice, but the Owls came back to eliminate TSU the following day in the elimination bracket, 7-1. The last meeting between the schools came in the Baton Rouge Regional in 2017 and the Owls battled back from an early 5-0 deficit (as well as an 82-minute rain delay) to claim an eventual 13-6. The last regular season meeting came in 2012, with Rice again falling behind 5-0, this time in the first inning, before rallying to tie it in the bottom of the eighth on a single by Michael Ratterree and then win it with none out in the bottom of the 11th when Ratterree scored on a bases-loaded error. Head coach Jose Cruz Jr. was 11x13 (.846) in five games vs. TSU from 1993-95 with three homers and 16 RBI, and set a school record with five walks in a 19-4 win on February 22, 1995, while also going 2x2 with a double and three RBI in the game.
Power Plant
Jack Riedel's 14 home runs this year are the most by an Owl since the NCAA revised the standards for bats after the 2010 season. Anthony Rendon led the Owls with 26 home runs on his way to earning national Player of the Year honors in 2010 while Rick Hague was second with 16. Riedel moved to within four of matching Mark Quinn's 1995 total of 18 as the 10th-best single-season mark in school history. Quinn smashed 18 homers in 1995 as a teammate of current Owls' head coach Jose Cruz Jr.
Tense Ones At Home
13 of the last 17 games at Reckling Park have been decided by two runs or less, nine of them by one run… The Owls are 7-4 in games decided in two runs or less after going 2-10 to start the season… The Owls split a pair of 15-inning games, both by 4-3 scores in a matter of eight days, losing to Memphis and defeating UAB… Rice has not played multiple games of 15 innings or more since 2013 when they played a 17-inning game at Hawai'i and matched that with an epic 17-inning loss to North Carolina State in the Super Regional.
Rice closes out its 2024 home baseball schedule by hosting Texas Southern at 11:30 a.m. on Tuesday for Grand Slam Day as students from area schools will attend the game. This will be the earliest start for a Rice home game since Reckling Park opened in 2000.
Watch ESPN+
Listen: Online / Varsity Network
Live Stats: Sidearm
Full Game Notes: RiceOwls.com
On the Air
J.P. Heath returns for his 16th season behind the mic calling Rice baseball and will have the simulcast call on Tuesday
Pitching Matchup
RHP Karl Ralamb (0-2, 5.17/2.30) vs. Undecided
Rice Recently
- Rice has posted a 12-7 record over the last 19 games.
- The Owls have hit .276 over the last 19 games (173x626) while the pitching staff has a combined 4.63 ERA and .261 opponents' batting average the defense has fielded at a .980 clip. In the first 33 games of the year, the Owls were 9-24 and hitting .223 with a staff ERA of 5.50 and the fielding percentage was .968.
- Rice captured its 4th conference series over the weekend by taking two of three against FAU, the Owls' best effort in a series since they took four in 2019.
Rice and Texas Southern have met 30 times since the series began in 1986. The schools have met 27 times in the regular season and three times in NCAA Regional action. TSU took the first postseason meeting with a 4-3 win in the first round of the 2004 Regional hosted by Rice, but the Owls came back to eliminate TSU the following day in the elimination bracket, 7-1. The last meeting between the schools came in the Baton Rouge Regional in 2017 and the Owls battled back from an early 5-0 deficit (as well as an 82-minute rain delay) to claim an eventual 13-6. The last regular season meeting came in 2012, with Rice again falling behind 5-0, this time in the first inning, before rallying to tie it in the bottom of the eighth on a single by Michael Ratterree and then win it with none out in the bottom of the 11th when Ratterree scored on a bases-loaded error. Head coach Jose Cruz Jr. was 11x13 (.846) in five games vs. TSU from 1993-95 with three homers and 16 RBI, and set a school record with five walks in a 19-4 win on February 22, 1995, while also going 2x2 with a double and three RBI in the game.
Power Plant
Jack Riedel's 14 home runs this year are the most by an Owl since the NCAA revised the standards for bats after the 2010 season. Anthony Rendon led the Owls with 26 home runs on his way to earning national Player of the Year honors in 2010 while Rick Hague was second with 16. Riedel moved to within four of matching Mark Quinn's 1995 total of 18 as the 10th-best single-season mark in school history. Quinn smashed 18 homers in 1995 as a teammate of current Owls' head coach Jose Cruz Jr.
Tense Ones At Home
13 of the last 17 games at Reckling Park have been decided by two runs or less, nine of them by one run… The Owls are 7-4 in games decided in two runs or less after going 2-10 to start the season… The Owls split a pair of 15-inning games, both by 4-3 scores in a matter of eight days, losing to Memphis and defeating UAB… Rice has not played multiple games of 15 innings or more since 2013 when they played a 17-inning game at Hawai'i and matched that with an epic 17-inning loss to North Carolina State in the Super Regional.
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