Ultimately, the final Big 12 baseball standings couldn’t have worked out much better for Kansas State. But for a moment on Saturday, things looked dire indeed.
After their series-opening win over TCU on Thursday, the BatCats found themselves in a five-run hole Friday from which they could not, despite a valiant effort, escape. A four-run second inning for TCU put K-State behind the eight ball, and Connor McCullough (5-4, 4.84) didn’t make it to the fifth inning. McCullough was the star of the staff for the first half of the season, let down repeatedly by his offense and defense, but his struggles over the second half have been on his own shoulder, so to speak.