Texas Tech Red Raiders baseball

{{short description|Intercollegiate baseball team of Texas Tech University}}

{{Infobox College baseball team

|current = 2025 Texas Tech Red Raiders baseball team

|name = Texas Tech Red Raiders

|founded = 1926 (99 years ago)

|logo = Texas Tech Athletics logo.svg

|logo_size = 125

|university = Texas Tech University

|conference = Big 12

|division =

|location = Lubbock, Texas

|coach = Tim Tadlock

|tenure = 13th

|stadium = Dan Law Field at Rip Griffin Park

|capacity = 4,801

|nickname = Red Raiders

|national_champion =

|cws = 2014, 2016, 2018, 2019

|regional_champ = 2014, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2021

|ncaa_tourneys = 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023

|conference_champion = 1995, 1997, 2016, 2017, 2019

|conference_tournament = 1995, 1998

}}

The Texas Tech Red Raiders baseball team represents Texas Tech University in NCAA Division I college baseball. The team competes in the Big 12 Conference and plays at Dan Law Field at Rip Griffin Park. Their head coach is Tim Tadlock and is entertaining his 9th season with the Red Raiders.

History

=Early years=

Image:TTUBaseball1926.jpg

Along with the football and men's basketball teams, the Texas Tech baseball team was founded during the university's initial academic year, in 1925–26. The team's first series was against the West Texas A&M Buffaloes in 1926, an 18–9 victory in the first game and 14–9 loss in the second.{{cite web|url=http://texastech.cstv.com/auto_pdf/p_hotos/s_chools/text/sports/m-basebl/auto_pdf/2008mediaguide|title=2008 Baseball Media Guide|access-date=2008-07-06|publisher=Texas Tech University Official Athletic Site|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081029221321/http://texastech.cstv.com/auto_pdf/p_hotos/s_chools/text/sports/m-basebl/auto_pdf/2008mediaguide|archive-date=2008-10-29}} The third game in the team's history—this one against Daniel Baker College—ended in a 3–3 tie after 11 innings.{{cite web|url=http://texastech.cstv.com/sports/m-basebl/archive/text-m-basebl-scores.html|title=Texas Tech Year-by-Year Scores|access-date=2008-07-06|publisher=Texas Tech University Official Athletic Site|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081029221326/http://texastech.cstv.com/sports/m-basebl/archive/text-m-basebl-scores.html|archive-date=2008-10-29}}

E. Y. Freeland was the first coach of the Red Raiders, though the team was known as the Matadors at the time. He remained in the position for three years before R. Grady Higginbotham took the role. Higginbotham coached for only two years. From 1930 to 1953, Texas Tech did not field an intercollegiate baseball team.

=Revival era=

When the program returned in 1954, Beattie Feathers became the head coach of the Red Raiders and remained until 1960. He was followed by Berl Huffman (1961–1967), Kal Segrist (1968–1983), and Gary Ashby (1984–1986). Texas Tech joined the Southwest Conference in 1968, but experienced little success. During this 26 season period, the Red Raiders had only seven winning seasons; only twice finishing as high as third, with only three winning records in conference play.

=Modern era=

Larry Hays took over the Red Raiders baseball team in 1987. Under Hays, Texas Tech endured only two losing seasons, his first and last, and enjoyed their greatest success in baseball. Hays took Texas Tech from having a losing tradition to being a national contender. When Hays started with the Red Raiders, the team's overall record stood at 550–576–5. By the time he left, he was the fourth-winningest coach in college baseball history and improved the team's record to 1,365–1,054–8.{{cite web|url=http://media.www.dailytoreador.com/media/storage/paper870/news/2008/06/03/Sports/Larry.Hays.Steps.Down.As.Tech.Baseballs.Head.Coach-3377769.shtml|title=Larry Hays steps down as Texas Tech baseball's head coach|access-date=2008-07-04|work=The Daily Toreador|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080916191558/http://media.www.dailytoreador.com/media/storage/paper870/news/2008/06/03/Sports/Larry.Hays.Steps.Down.As.Tech.Baseballs.Head.Coach-3377769.shtml|archive-date=2008-09-16}} The Red Raiders reached eight straight NCAA tournaments from 1995 to 2002 and again in 2004, three of which were held at Dan Law Field at Rip Griffin Park.{{cite web|url=http://www.lubbockonline.com/stories/060308/spo_285725492.shtml|title=Larry Hays ends 22-year love affair with Texas Tech baseball|access-date=2008-07-04|work=Lubbock Avalanche-Journal|author=George Watson|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120303192416/http://lubbockonline.com/stories/060308/spo_285725492.shtml|archive-date=2012-03-03|url-status=dead}} They also won the 1995 Southwest Conference championship, and the inaugural Big 12 Conference championship in 1997. The Hays-led Red Raiders also won the SWC Tournament in 1995, and the Big 12 Tournament in 1998.

On June 2, 2008, Larry Hays announced his retirement, paving the way for assistant coach Dan Spencer to take over. Spencer, a former Texas Tech player, won back-to-back national championships as an assistant head coach for the Oregon State Beavers.{{cite web|url=http://www.big12sports.com/sports/m-basebl/spec-rel/061408aaa.html|title=Dan Spencer Named Head Baseball Coach at Texas Tech|access-date=2008-07-04|publisher=Big 12 Conference}} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}} In Spencer's four seasons as head coach, he led the Red Raiders to only one winning season. Prior to Spencer's fourth, and final, season as head coach, Tim Tadlock was hired as associate head coach for the Red Raiders under Dan Spencer. The following season saw Tadlock replace Spencer as the ninth head coach of the Red Raiders following Spencer's firing.

Tadlock was a starting shortstop for the Red Raiders during the 1990 and 1991 seasons. Tadlock previously led the Grayson College Vikings to back-to-back NJCAA Division I World Series championships in the team's five appearances over his 9 seasons as head coach. Tadlock's first season saw the team finish 26–30, and 8th of 9 in Big 12 play. Prior to the 2014 season, the Red Raiders were selected to finish in 8th place in the Big 12 Conference in the preseason polls. In only his second season, the Red Raiders won their first NCAA tournament Regional Championship, defeating the Columbia Lions and host team Miami Hurricanes to advance to the program's first Super Regional appearance. The team would host College of Charleston in the Lubbock Super Regional before shutting them out twice in two 1–0 games, earning the programs first berth in the College World Series on the back of a 0.65 post season earned run average produced by assistant coach Ray Hayward's pitching staff.{{cite press release | url=http://www.texastech.com/sports/m-basebl/spec-rel/061114aac.html | title=Texas Tech Enters CWS Ranked Seventh Nationally | publisher=Texas Tech University | date=June 11, 2014 | access-date=June 11, 2014}} The Red Raiders have since gone on to win Big 12 regular season conference championships in 2016, 2017 and 2019 and again host both Regional and Super Regional rounds of the NCAA tournament in Lubbock while also making three more appearances in the College World Series (2016, 2018–2019).

Ballpark

{{Main article|Dan Law Field at Rip Griffin Park}}

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Season-by-season results

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|startyear=1926

|conference=no

|endyear=1967

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| name = Ewing Y. Freeland

| overall = 11–2–1

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| season = 1927

| name = Ewing Y. Freeland

| overall = 4–9–1

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| season = 1928

| name = Grady Higginbotham

| overall = 8–6

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| season = 1929

| name = Grady Higginbotham

| overall = 2–11

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|name=No Team Fielded

|startyear=1930

|conference=no

|endyear=1953

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| season = 1954

| name = Beattie Feathers

| overall = 1–7–1

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| name = Beattie Feathers

| overall = 3–17

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| name = Beattie Feathers

| overall = 8–7

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| name = Beattie Feathers

| overall = 7–4

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| name = Beattie Feathers

| overall = 6–9

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| name = Beattie Feathers

| overall = 7–6

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| name = Beattie Feathers

| overall = 8–7

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| name = Berl Huffman

| overall = 13–5

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| name = Berl Huffman

| overall = 15–11

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| name = Berl Huffman

| overall = 12–10

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| name = Berl Huffman

| overall = 9–16

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| name = Berl Huffman

| overall = 7–16

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| season = 1966

| name = Berl Huffman

| overall = 10–13

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| season = 1967

| name = Berl Huffman

| overall = 14–16

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|name = Southwest Conference

|startyear = 1968

|conference = no

|endyear = 1996

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| season = 1968

| name = Kal Segrist

| overall = 9–20

| conference = 2–15

| confstanding = 7th

| postseason =

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| season = 1969

| name = Kal Segrist

| overall = 13–13

| conference = 9–6

| confstanding = 3rd

| postseason =

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| championship =

| season = 1970

| name = Kal Segrist

| overall = 12–16–1

| conference = 5–10

| confstanding = 5th

| postseason =

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| championship =

| season = 1971

| name = Kal Segrist

| overall = 26–14

| conference = 11–7

| confstanding = 3rd

| postseason =

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| championship =

| season = 1972

| name = Kal Segrist

| overall = 23–19

| conference = 6–12

| confstanding = T–5th

| postseason =

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{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| championship =

| season = 1973

| name = Kal Segrist

| overall = 12–16

| conference = 6–10

| confstanding = T–6th

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{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| championship =

| season = 1974

| name = Kal Segrist

| overall = 11–21

| conference = 9–15

| confstanding = T–8th

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| championship =

| season = 1975

| name = Kal Segrist

| overall = 22–23

| conference = 9–15

| confstanding = 6th

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| championship =

| season = 1976

| name = Kal Segrist

| overall = 32–21

| conference = 10–11

| confstanding = 6th

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| championship =

| season = 1977

| name = Kal Segrist

| overall = 25–24

| conference = 12–12

| confstanding = 5th

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| championship =

| season = 1978

| name = Kal Segrist

| overall = 23–25

| conference = 8–16

| confstanding = 7th

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| championship =

| season = 1979

| name = Kal Segrist

| overall = 16–23

| conference = 9–15

| confstanding = 6th

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| championship =

| season = 1980

| name = Kal Segrist

| overall = 28–23–1

| conference = 14–10

| confstanding = 4th

| postseason = SWC Tournament, L 1–2

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| championship =

| season = 1981

| name = Kal Segrist

| overall = 26–21

| conference = 8–13

| confstanding = 7th

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| championship =

| season = 1982

| name = Kal Segrist

| overall = 21–22

| conference = 9–12

| confstanding = 5th

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| championship =

| season = 1983

| name = Kal Segrist

| overall = 18–23

| conference = 8–13

| confstanding = 6th

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| championship =

| season = 1984

| name = Gary Ashby

| overall = 33–22

| conference = 9–12

| confstanding = T–5th

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{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| championship =

| season = 1985

| name = Gary Ashby

| overall = 18–33

| conference = 2–19

| confstanding = 8th

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{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| championship =

| season = 1986

| name = Gary Ashby

| overall = 34–25

| conference = 7–14

| confstanding = 6th

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{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| championship =

| season = 1987

| name = Larry Hays

| overall = 21–28

| conference = 7–14

| confstanding = 6th

| postseason =

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{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| championship =

| season = 1988

| name = Larry Hays

| overall = 34–25–1

| conference = 7–14

| confstanding = 6th

| postseason =

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{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| championship =

| season = 1989

| name = Larry Hays

| overall = 32–22

| conference = 9–12

| confstanding = T–4th

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{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

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| season = 1990

| name = Larry Hays

| overall = 31–29

| conference = 6–16

| confstanding = 7th

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{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| championship =

| season = 1991

| name = Larry Hays

| overall = 42–18

| conference = 9–12

| confstanding = 7th

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{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

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| season = 1992

| name = Larry Hays

| overall = 29–25

| conference = 15–19

| confstanding = 4th

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| season = 1993

| name = Larry Hays

| overall = 43–15

| conference = 11–7

| confstanding = T–2nd

| postseason = SWC Tournament, L 0–2

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| season = 1994

| name = Larry Hays

| overall = 40–17

| conference = 12–6

| confstanding = T–2nd

| postseason = SWC Tournament, L 2–2

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| season = 1995

| name = Larry Hays

| overall = 51–14

| conference = 16–8

| confstanding = 1st

| postseason = SWC Tournament, W 3–1
NCAA Midwest I Regional, L 3–2

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| championship =

| season = 1996

| name = Larry Hays

| overall = 49–15

| conference = 15–9

| confstanding = 2nd

| postseason = SWC Tournament, L 3–2
NCAA Central II Regional, L 2–2

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|startyear = 1997

|conference = no

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| championship = conference

| season = 1997

| name = Larry Hays

| overall = 46–14

| conference = 23–7

| confstanding = 1st

| postseason = Big 12 tournament, L 3–2
NCAA Central Regional, L 0–2

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| championship = conference tournament

| season = 1998

| name = Larry Hays

| overall = 44–20

| conference = 18–11

| confstanding = 3rd

| postseason = Big 12 tournament, W 4–1
NCAA Atlantic I Regional, L 1–2

}}

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| championship =

| season = 1999

| name = Larry Hays

| overall = 42–17

| conference = 18–8

| confstanding = 3rd

| postseason = Big 12 tournament, L 0–2
NCAA Lubbock Regional, L 2–2

}}

{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| championship =

| season = 2000

| name = Larry Hays

| overall = 36–26

| conference = 18–12

| confstanding = 5th

| postseason = Big 12 tournament, L 1–2
NCAA Houston Regional, L 1–2

}}

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| championship =

| season = 2001

| name = Larry Hays

| overall = 43–20–1

| conference = 19–10–1

| confstanding = 2nd

| postseason = Big 12 tournament, L 1–2
NCAA Fullerton Regional, L 3–2

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| championship =

| season = 2002

| name = Larry Hays

| overall = 42–20

| conference = 16–11

| confstanding = 2nd

| postseason = Big 12 tournament, L 1–2
NCAA Houston Regional, L 1–2

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{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

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| season = 2003

| name = Larry Hays

| overall = 30–25

| conference = 8–18

| confstanding = 9th

| postseason =

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{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| championship =

| season = 2004

| name = Larry Hays

| overall = 40–21

| conference = 17–9

| confstanding = 3rd

| postseason = Big 12 tournament, L 0–2
NCAA Atlanta Regional, L 2–2

}}

{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| championship =

| season = 2005

| name = Larry Hays

| overall = 34–25

| conference = 9–16

| confstanding = 8th

| postseason = Big 12 tournament, L 1–2

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{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| championship =

| season = 2006

| name = Larry Hays

| overall = 31–26–1

| conference = 9–16–1

| confstanding = 8th

| postseason = Big 12 tournament, L 0–3

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{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| championship =

| season = 2007

| name = Larry Hays

| overall = 28–27

| conference = 8–18

| confstanding = 10th

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{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

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| season = 2008

| name = Larry Hays

| overall = 25–30

| conference = 9–18

| confstanding = T–9th

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{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| championship =

| season = 2009

| name = Dan Spencer

| overall = 25–32

| conference = 12–15

| confstanding = 7th

| postseason = Big 12 tournament, L 1–2

}}

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| season = 2010

| name = Dan Spencer

| overall = 28–29

| conference = 13–14

| confstanding = 5th

| postseason = Big 12 tournament, L 1–2

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| season = 2011

| name = Dan Spencer

| overall = 33–25

| conference = 12–15

| confstanding = 7th

| postseason = Big 12 tournament, L 0–2

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| season = 2012

| name = Dan Spencer

| overall = 29–26

| conference = 7–17

| confstanding = T–8th

| postseason =

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| season = 2013

| name = Tim Tadlock

| overall = 26–30

| conference = 9–15

| confstanding = 8th

| postseason = Big 12 tournament, L 1–2

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| championship =

| season = 2014

| name = Tim Tadlock

| overall = 45–19

| conference = 14–10

| confstanding = 4th

| postseason = Big 12 tournament, L 0–2
NCAA Coral Gables Regional, W 3–1
NCAA Lubbock Super Regional, W 2–0
NCAA College World Series, 0–2

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| season = 2015

| name = Tim Tadlock

| overall = 31–24

| conference = 13–11

| confstanding = T-3rd

| postseason = Big 12 tournament, L 1–2

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{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| championship = conference

| season = 2016

| name = Tim Tadlock

| overall = 47–20

| conference = 19–5

| confstanding = 1st

| postseason = Big 12 tournament, L 1–2
NCAA Lubbock Regional, W 3–1
NCAA Lubbock Super Regional, W 2–1
NCAA College World Series, 1–2

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| championship = conference

| season = 2017

| name = Tim Tadlock

| overall = 45–17

| conference = 16–8

| confstanding = T-1st

| postseason = Big 12 tournament, L 1–2
NCAA Lubbock Regional, L 2-2

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| championship =

| season = 2018

| name = Tim Tadlock

| overall = 45–20

| conference = 15–9

| confstanding = 3rd

| postseason = Big 12 tournament, L 1–2
NCAA Lubbock Regional, W 3–0
NCAA Lubbock Super Regional, W 2–1
NCAA College World Series, 1–2

}}

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| championship = conference

| season = 2019

| name = Tim Tadlock

| overall = 45–19

| conference = 16–8

| confstanding = 1st

| postseason = Big 12 tournament, L 3–2
NCAA Lubbock Regional, W 3–0
NCAA Lubbock Super Regional, W 2–1
NCAA College World Series, L 2–2

}}

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| season = 2020

| name = Tim Tadlock

| overall = 16–3

| conference = 0–0

| confstanding = —

| postseason = Season cancelled due to COVID-19

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| championship =

| season = 2021

| name = Tim Tadlock

| overall = 39–17

| conference = 14–10

| confstanding = 3rd

| postseason = Big 12 tournament, L 1–2
NCAA Lubbock Regional, W 3–0
NCAA Lubbock Super Regional, L 0–2

}}

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| championship =

| season = 2022

| name = Tim Tadlock

| overall = 39–22

| conference = 15–9

| confstanding = T–2nd

| postseason = Big 12 tournament, L 1–2
NCAA Statesboro Regional, L 2–2

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| championship =

| season = 2023

| name = Tim Tadlock

| overall = 41-23

| conference = 12-12

| confstanding = 6th

| postseason = Big 12 tournament, L 2-2
NCAA Gainesville Regional, L 2–2

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Head coaches

{{main article|List of Texas Tech Red Raiders head baseball coaches}}

Individual accomplishments

Unanimous All-American

National Pitcher of the Year Award

Big 12 Conference Player of the Year

Big 12 Conference Pitcher of the Year

Big 12 Conference Freshman of the Year

  • Hudson White (2022)
  • Gabe Holt (2018)
  • Josh Jung (2017)

Big 12 Conference Coach of the Year

Big 12 Conference Tournament MVP

Southwest Conference Coach of the Year

Southwest Conference Tournament MVP

  • Jason Tolman (1995)

NCAA Division I Regional Tournament MVP

  • Kurt Wilson (2021, Lubbock)
  • Cam Warren (2019, Lubbock)
  • Zach Rheams (2018, Lubbock)
  • Hayden Howard (2016, Lubbock)
  • Dylan Dusek (2014, Coral Gables)

Skip Bertman Award

=Retired jerseys=

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!Number

!Player

!Seasons

22

|Brooks Wallace

|1977–1980

23

|Clint Bryant

|1993–1996

24

|Kal Segrist

|1968–1983

27

|Larry Hays

|1987–2008

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Red Raiders in the Major Leagues

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At least 30 former Texas Tech Red Raiders have gone on to play Major League Baseball.{{Cite web|url=https://www.baseball-almanac.com/college/texas_tech_university_baseball_players.shtml|title=Texas Tech University Baseball Players Who Made it to a Major League Baseball Team | Baseball Almanac|website=www.baseball-almanac.com}}

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!Player

!MLB Career Dates

!Round Drafted

!Team Drafted

Chuck Harrison

|1965–1969, 1971

|N/A

|N/A

Doug Ault

|1976–1980

|Free Agent

|Texas Rangers

Donald Harris

|1991–1993

|1st (5th pick)

|Texas Rangers

Mike Humphreys

|1991–1993

|15th

|San Diego Padres

Mark Brandenburg

|1995–1997

|26th

|Texas Rangers

Ryan Nye

|1997–1998

|2nd

|Philadelphia Phillies

Travis Smith

|1998–2006

|19th

|Milwaukee Brewers

Brandon Kolb

|2000–2001

|38th

|Oakland Athletics

Keith Ginter

|2000–2005

|10th

|Houston Astros

Stubby Clapp

|2001

2019–present (Coach)

|36th

|St. Louis Cardinals

Matt Miller

|2001–2002

|2nd

|Detroit Tigers

Trey Lunsford

|2002–2003

|33rd

|San Francisco Giants

Travis Driskill

|2002–2005, 2007

|4th

|Cleveland Indians

Josh Bard

|2002–2011

2016–present (Coach)

|3rd

|Colorado Rockies

Steve Watkins

|2004

|16th

|San Diego Padres

Joe Dillon

|2005, 2007–2009

2018–present (Coach)

|7th

|Kansas City Royals

Chris Sampson

|2006–2009

|8th

|Houston Astros

Jeff Karstens

|2006–2012

|19th

|New York Yankees

Dallas Braden

|2007–2011

|24th

|Oakland Athletics

Dustin Richardson

|2009–2010

|5th

|Boston Red Sox

Josh Tomlin

|2010–present

|19th

|Cleveland Indians

Zach Stewart

|2011–2012

|3rd

|Cincinnati Reds

AJ Ramos

|2012–2018, 2020–2021

|21st

|Florida Marlins

Roger Kieschnick

|2013–2014

|3rd

|San Francisco Giants

Nathan Karns

|2013–2017, 2019

|12th

|Washington Nationals

Chad Bettis

|2013–2019

|2nd

|Colorado Rockies

Danny Coulombe

|2014–2018, 2020–present

|25th

|Los Angeles Dodgers

Kelby Tomlinson

|2015–2018

|12th

|San Francisco Giants

Robert Dugger

|2019–present

|18th

|Seattle Mariners

Parker Mushinski

|2022–present

|7th

|Houston Astros

Davis Martin

|2022–present

|14th

|Chicago White Sox

Caleb Kilian

|2022–present

|77th

|San Francisco Giants

Josh Jung

|2022–present

|1st

|Texas Rangers

John McMillon

|2022–present

|11th

|Detroit Tigers

Jace Jung

|2024-present

|1st

|Detroit Tigers

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!Years

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Patrick Mahomes

|2015

|Relief pitcher

|Quarterback

|NFL

|Kansas City Chiefs

See also

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