Florida State goes on road, rolls to 10-1 rout of No. 8 TCU

The Florida State baseball team needed just five games to pick up the first marquee victory of the Link Jarrett era.

Playing before a hostile crowd against the No. 8-ranked team in the country, Jarrett’s Seminoles opened up a three-run lead in the sixth inning and then pulled away Friday night for a 10-1 rout of TCU in Fort Worth, Texas.

The win pushed the Seminoles’ record under Jarrett to 5-0. They started the season with a sweep of James Madison and then cruised to an 11-2 win Tuesday at Jacksonville.

Sophomore right-hander Jackson Baumeister set the tone early for Florida State by pitching 5 2/3 scoreless innings in his first Friday night start. He allowed just one hit while striking out eight and issuing two walks.

The innings pitched and the strikeouts were both career-highs for Baumeister, who was making just his fourth career start.

Junior left-hander Wyatt Crowell then took over from there and kept the Horned Frogs’ potent lineup in check for the final 3 1/3 innings. He allowed one hit and one unearned run while striking out six and walking two.

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Coming into this series, TCU (3-2) had averaged 11 runs in its first four games. Florida State held the Horned Frogs to one run on two hits.

Florida State also got several strong offensive performances, led by three hits from sophomore Jaime Ferrer and two hits apiece from freshman DeAmez Ross, sophomore James Tibbs and senior Nander De Sedas.

Tibbs also racked up 3 RBIs on a bases-clearing double in the ninth inning, and Ferrer and Treyton Rank each drove in two runs.

Florida State and TCU will play the second game of the series Saturday at 3 p.m. ET. Freshman left-hander Jamie Arnold will make his second career start for the ‘Noles; he allowed three runs in 2 2/3 innings in his debut last Sunday.

BOX SCORE: FSU 10, No. 8 TCU 1

GAME NOTES FROM FSU

• Florida State now has five triples in five games and is averaging 11.2 runs per game. TCU scored 44 runs over the first four games, including 18 against No. 8 Arkansas and 11 vs. No. 10 Vanderbilt.
• Jackson Baumeister set career-highs with 5.2 innings pitched and eight strikeouts. It was his first career Friday night start. Wyatt Crowell closed the game with 3.1 innings pitched for his third career save.
• Jaime Ferrer’s double extended his on-base streak to 18 games, the longest of his career and longest active streak on the team. Ferrer finished a home run shy of the cycle after hitting his second career triple in the ninth inning. He is the third Seminole this season with three hits, three RBI and three runs in a game (DeAmez Ross vs. James Madison, Cam Smith vs. Jacksonville).
• Second baseman Nander De Sedas doubled in his first at-bat and was the first baserunner of the game, with one out in the third inning. It was his first extra-base hit of the season and he finished 2-for-4 Friday.
• Colton Vincent led off the sixth inning with a double, his third of the year. He extended his hitting streak to a career-high nine games, the longest active streak on the team.
• DeAmez Ross followed Vincent’s double with a single. He has reached safely in the first five games of his FSU career and was 2-for-5 with a single and double against TCU.
• Jordan Carrion’s sacrifice fly was his team-best 11^th RBI of the season. Cam Smith extended his on-base streak to the first five games of his career with a walk in the ninth inning.
• The only other trip Florida State has made to Texas was for the 1982 Austin Regional. FSU went 1-2, beating Ohio State and losing to Eastern Michigan and Oklahoma. FSU now leads the all-time series vs. TCU, 3-2, after sweeping the Horned Frogs twice in 2022.

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