BALLGAME! The Frogs score in seven of nine innings to record the win. TCU heads to Baylor this weekend for a three game series starting Friday night. #GoFrogs pic.twitter.com/8MF7XEf5xH
— TCU Baseball (@TCU_Baseball) April 19, 2018
The TCU Horned Frogs’ hopes of making a fifth straight trip to the College World Series took a serious blow Wednesday when it was learned that home-run leader Luken Baker has been lost for the season with a broken leg.
TCU defeated UT-Arlington 11-7 on the road Wednesday night. But the Horned Frogs are destined to miss the talents of Baker, a 6-foot-4, 265-pound slugger out of Spring.
Baker, a junior, suffered the injury Tuesday night in Fort Worth during the Frogs’ 4-2, 11-inning loss to Abilene Christian.
Reports indicated that he got his spikes caught in the dirt while running from first to second base.
Through 31 games, he was hitting .319 with nine home runs and 26 RBIs.
With the win over UT Arlington, TCU improved to 19-14. The Frogs are 6-5 in the Big 12 leading into a weekend series in Waco against Baylor.
#TCU's Luken Baker is out for the year. He'll have surgery Friday morning to put screws in left fibular bone.
— Stefan Stevenson (@StevensonFWST) April 18, 2018
In addition to the fibula fracture, @TCU_Baseball’s Luken Baker also suffered a tear of one ligament and a strain of another. Just an awful all around injury. #mlbdraft #frogs
— Kendall Rogers (@KendallRogers) April 18, 2018