THE LEAD
No. 16 DBU fell to top-ranked TCU, 3-2, in 10 innings on Tuesday evening at Lupton Stadium in Fort Worth, Texas. The Horned Frogs scored the winning run on an infield single by Cam Warner with runners on the corners, allowing Luken Baker to score.
 
Durbin Feltman (2-0) earned the win for TCU after tossing two innings of scoreless, hitless relief with three strikeouts. Seth Elledge (0-1) suffered the loss after giving up the gamewinner in the 10^th inning to cap off a 2 2/3 inning outing with six strikeouts.
 
After TCU starter Dalton Horton set down two DBU batters on strikes in the opening frame, Martinson one-upped him by striking out the side in the bottom of the first. Devlin Granberg led off the second with a double to the wall in right field and advanced to third on a Matt Duce grounder. On the next at-bat, Garrett Wolforth lined a single between the third baseman and shortstop to bring Granberg home and give the Patriots an early 1-0 lead. Martinson retired the first two in the second before giving up a triple to Nolan Brown and walking Cam Warner to put runners on the corner. Martinson got Ryan Merrill to pop out to end the inning and keep the Horner Frogs off the board.
 
Martinson again erased a potential TCU rally in the third after Martinson walked the first two batters of the inning, but struck out Elliott Barzilli before Matt Duce picked off Austin Ingraham at second base for the second out. Martinson set down Evan Skoug on strikes to bring an end to the inning and his outing, finishing with six strikeouts and three walks over three innings with just one hit allowed. The DBU pitching staff worked out of another jam in the fourth with runners at the corners with two outs. Merrill hit a grounder up the middle that was center field-bound if not for a deflection off Jimmy Fouse's leg that ricocheted directly toward Logan Sepanek, who scooped up the ball for the final out.
 
The Horned Frogs finally got on the board after threatening in the third straight inning, putting runners on the corners on a pair of base hits off Kragen Kechely, forcing head coach Dan Heefner to call on his bullpen once again for Landon Wilson. In the ensuing at bat, Skoug grounded to Luke Stratman, allowing Austen Wade to cross the plate to tie the game. The Patriots regained the lead in the top of the 7^th beginning with a leadoff double off the bat of Camden Duzenack, followed by a sac bunt laid down by Logan Sepanek to move Duzenack over to third. Stratman grounded to reliever Charles King, who made the play at first, allowing Duzenack to score and make it 2-1 DBU.
 
TCU answered once again in the bottom of the seventh as Barzilli reached on a two-out infield single, followed by a walk of Skoug. Luken Baker stepped up to the plate and roped an RBI single to left-center on the first pitch from reliever Dalton Higgins to bring the tying run, Barzilli, home. The Patriots had a chance to steal back the lead in the top of the eighth as Trey Morris walked back-to-back batters to load the bases with two outs for Camden Duzenack, who flied out to center to end the inning.
 
After allowing a leadoff single in the bottom of the eighth, closer Seth Elledge retired the next seven batters, including five on strikes, before a walk of Baker in the bottom of the 10^th. After Elledge's sixth strikeout of the night, Nolan Brown singled to center to put runners on the corners. On the next at bat, Cam Warner grounded up the middle, but the ball was fumbled by Camden Duzenack, allowing Baker to score the gamewinning run.
 
THREE THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW
 - Seth Elledge set career highs with 2.2 IP and six strikeouts in the loss.
 - In two appearances vs TCU, Jordan Martinson has tossed five innings, allowing just one hit on one run with 10 strikeouts and a 0.00 ERA.
 - Devlin Granberg is hitting 8-for-14 in the last three games with three RBI and three runs scored. 

INSIDE THE NUMBERS
1 – Tuesday marked the first loss for DBU when scoring first and leading through six innings.
2 – The Patriots allowed two of the three runs with two outs.
3 – DBU's pitching staff held the No. 1 ranked squad to their fewest runs in a game this season.
 
UP NEXT
DBU heads north to Tulsa, Oklahoma, for the first road weekend series of the season, beginning Friday evening at 6:30 p.m.