Release by Chris Kutz, Assistant Director, Athletics Communications

MANHATTAN, Kan. – With two outs and the bases loaded, Jake Wodtke hit a first-pitch single through the left side to score Shane Conlon and give the K-State baseball team a 5-4 comeback win in 10 innings over WichitaState on Tuesday at Tointon Family Stadium.

 

Wodtke’s walk-off hit capped five unanswered runs for K-State (17-18), which fell behind 4-0 after the top of the fifth inning when Ryan Tinkham of Wichita State (13-23) hit the second of his two home runs. Wodtke’s 10th-inning single, one of his two hits in the game, helped the Wildcats tally nine of their 10 hits over the final six innings.

 

“You do not want to get underneath the ball and be out front,” said K-State head coach Brad Hill about Wodtke’s plate approach in the final at-bat. “You just want to hit the ball through the infield, and [Wodtke] did a good job of executing it.”

 

The win was K-State’s fourth in the last five games and first extra-inning victory of the season. The last Wildcat home win in extra-innings was on May 20, 2011 vs. Kansas (11-10 in 10 innings).