Month: October 2023

2024 Houston Cougars Baseball Schedule

As the 2024 schedule begins to take shape, we only know a few of the 56 games planned at this point.

February 16-18 vs. Binghamton

February 20 vs. Prairie View A&M

February 23-25 vs. St. John’s

February 27 vs. UTSA

March 1, 11:05am vs. Texas State at Minute Maid Park

March 2, 11:05am vs. Vanderbilt at Minute Maid Park

March 3, 7:05pm vs. Louisiana at Minute Maid Park

March 5 vs. Sam Houston

March 8-10 vs. Baylor

March 14-16 at BYU

March 19 vs. Rice at Schroeder Park

March 20 vs. Rice at Reckling Park

March 22-24 vs. Kansas State

March 28-30 at TCU

April 2 vs. Rice at Schroeder Park

April 5-7 at Texas Tech

April 9 at Sam Houston

April 12-14 vs. Texas

April 16 vs. Houston Christian at Schroeder Park

April 19-21 at Cincinnati

April 26-28 vs. UT Arlington

May 1 vs. McNeese

May 3-5 vs. UCF

May 7 vs. Nicholls

May 10-12 at Kansas

May 14 vs. Sam Houston (at Constellation Field in Sugar Land)

May 16-18 vs. Oklahoma

May 21-25 Big 12 Championship at Globe Life Park in Arlington

Cougars Notebook – October 2, 2023

Jared Triolo played in six games the final week of the season . . . Triolo had hits in four straight games, he had two hits in three of the four games before going hitless in the season finale on Sunday . . . Triolo finished the season with a .298 batting average, a .786 OPS, three home runs, and 21 RBI over two stints with the Pirates . . . Defensively, Triolo played games at at first base, second base, and third base.

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Connor Wong completed the 2023 season having been on the Boston Red Sox active roster the entire season, never making a trip to the injured list or missing any time . . . Wong played in 121 games, four of them at second base, Wong started at catcher in 105 games . . . Defensively, Wong finished in the top 10 in catching 18 runners trying to steal . . . Offensively, Wong finished with nine home runs on the season.

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Former Cougars left-hander John King finished his 2023 campaign with two scoreless outings of one inning each, September 30 and October 1, both against the Cincinnati Reds in St. Louis . . . In Sunday’s outing, King recorded three outs, two of them by strikeout . . . King ended the season with a 3.62 ERA and compiled 20 strike outs in 37 1/3 innings pitched . . . It is worth mentioning once again that King’s numbers reflect part of his season with the Texas Rangers before being traded near the trade deadline in late July.

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