Cowboys Baseball: Doing The Little Things

Robbie Rea slides in for the winning run in Game 3 of Bedlam, but an earlier at-bat was maybe just as big.

By John Helsley

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OSU gets a weekend off from Big 12 play – and what should be a weekend off from major competition – with a three-game series against Alcorn State.

So there’s still time to reflect back on Bedlam.

Sunday’s Bedlam finale provided some fascinating inside-the-game moments, the kind of little stuff that true baseball fans acknowledge and enjoy.

And the kind of little stuff that can define a season, as both the Cowboys and Sooners know.

OSU is riding one of the nation’s hottest stretches, because in tight games – which the Cowboys seem to constantly find themselves in – they’re making plays that seemed to avoid them in the season’s first two months.

The little things.

Take this moment from the Sunday game: scoreless, bottom of the third, one out, runner at third for the Cowboys.

Robbie Rea is batting – and battling. He missed a safety squeeze sign early in the count, resulting in Hunter Bailey getting caught stealing second, so he better be battling. Well, Rea keeps fouling off 3-2 pitches from OU’s Dillon Overton, finally drawing a walk on the 10th pitch, leading to a high-pitch, high-stress inning for the Sooner pitcher.