NORMAN, Okla. — Baylor’s first road trip of the season got off to a rocky start.

Just as the Bears were starting to right the ship, Mother Nature intervened.

Due to menacing weather forecasts in the Norman area for Saturday, the Baylor baseball team’s second game against No. 25 Oklahoma was moved to Friday, making for a doubleheader to open the Big 12 for both squads.

In the opener, the Bears rallied from a 7-3 third-inning deficit but stranded the tying run on second base in the ninth to lose, 7-6, to snap their seven-game winning streak.

The Bears (11-7, 0-1) then built up a 5-0 lead through the top of the third inning in the nightcap before the rain and lightning moved in ahead of schedule. After two rain delays, the rest of the game against the Sooners (18-2, 1-0) was moved to a 1 p.m. start on Sunday in advance of the final game of the series later that day.

“It’s just weather,” Baylor coach Steve Smith said. “You can’t do anything about it.”

Highlighted by a second-inning home run from Logan Vick, Baylor ran out to a 3-0 lead over the first two innings, but the Bears were burned for five runs in the bottom half of a wide-open second, and all five of those runs were unearned.

Starter Shawn Tolleson plunked the first hitter he faced, and then a throwing error from Max Muncy put runners on second and third. That set the table for a devastating trio of at-bats. Danny Black’s two-run single pulled the Sooners to within 3-2, and Tolleson surrendered back-to-back home runs to the next two batters to stake Oklahoma to a 5-3 lead.

“You can’t give them a lot of extra outs,” Smith said. “We didn’t get an out on a play we should have. Other than that we played pretty well.”

Oklahoma extended its lead to 7-3 with back-to-back RBI doubles in the third, but Tolleson was nearly unhittable in the fourth and fifth.

He went five full innings and surrendered seven hits and seven runs, but only two of those were earned.

A two-run shot from Landis Ware in the fourth and an RBI single from Chris Slater in the fifth pulled Baylor to within 7-6, but the next run was an elusive one.

While Tolleson straightened out and Baylor got scoreless bullpen appearances from Josh Turley and Ross Speed, the offense went quiet at the wrong time. Joey Hainsfurther roped a two-out double into center in the ninth, but Raynor Campbell lined out to first base to end it.

“I thought offensively we got after them pretty good,” Smith said. “Their numbers are pretty impressive. They’ve got a great club and I think we learned some things.”

Just like in the opener, the Bears were fast starters in the day’s second game. With Baylor’s Logan Verrett having little trouble on the mound, Hainsfurther and Dan Evatt both tallied RBIs in the first inning for a quick-strike 2-0 lead.

Baylor kept piling on in the third. Campbell yanked an RBI double down the right field line for his 24th RBI of the season and a 3-0 lead. That shot knocked out starter Bobby Shore and his 2.19 ERA. His replacemement didn’t fare much better.

Muncy and Tyler Collins followed that up with back-to-back RBI singles to put Baylor up five before the rain moved in.

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