Kansas baseball team ties NCAA record with 5 straight home runs in 29-1 victory over Minnesota

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Wednesday conscionable wasn't the time for the Minnesota Golden Gophers' pitching staff.

The University of Minnesota welcomed Kansas to U.S. Bank Stadium, the location of the Minnesota Vikings, this week, and the Jayhawks discourtesy coiled up looking similar the Vikings offense.

Kansas won by 4 touchdowns, defeating the Golden Gophers, 29-1, and made past portion doing so.

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In the 3rd inning, disconnected 2 antithetic pitchers, the Jayhawks deed 5 consecutive location runs, tying the NCAA grounds acceptable successful 1992 and pulling disconnected a feat that has ne'er been done successful the large leagues.

It each started with Chase Diggins' three-run blast with nary outs, but Max Soliz Jr. followed up with a solo changeable of his own.

Minnesota went to the bullpen, but that didn't halt the location tally barrage arsenic Brady Counsell, Brady Ballinger and Jackson Hauge followed with homers. Counsell is the lad of erstwhile large leaguer and existent Chicago Cubs manager Craig Counsell.

The crippled was called aft 7 innings owed to the mercy rule.

"I’ve ne'er been a portion of thing similar that," Counsell said. "I deliberation benignant of successful the infinitesimal I didn’t truly recognize that we had three, and aft (Brady) Ballinger went heavy that was four. We were benignant of like, ‘Oh my gosh. What is happening?’"

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After Hauge went deep, "It was, Wow! That’s crazy!'" Counsell added.

The archetypal assemblage squad to deed 5 consecutive homers was Centenary, which did it against Stephen F. Austin successful the archetypal inning of a crippled successful 1992. Eastern Illinois matched the feat successful the 5th inning against Morehead State successful 1998, and earlier Wednesday, it was astir precocious accomplished by South Carolina against Georgia successful 2006.

"I really didn’t cognize we had 4 erstwhile I went up to the sheet due to the fact that they made a pitching change," said Hauge, who really had 2 homers successful the game. "It was Diggins, Soliz and past a pitching change. I was conscionable going up determination thinking, ‘This would beryllium awesome to spell back-to-back-to-back.’ When I got backmost successful the dugout, they yelled, ‘Five!’ So it was beauteous cool."