Baylor Baseball will travel to Cincinnati for a three-game series, marking its first flight trip of the 2026 season, according to an April 9 announcement. The Bears have won seven of their last nine games and are coming off a weekend sweep at Houston and a series win over Brigham Young University in Waco.
This upcoming matchup is significant as it marks Baylor’s first visit to Cincinnati in program history. The Bears have performed strongly this season, winning seven out of eight series openers and securing four consecutive Big 12 series-opening victories for the first time since 2021. Redshirt junior right-handed pitcher Lucas Davenport has started six games this year, all resulting in wins for Baylor.
The team’s defense has also been notable, turning 28 double plays in 32 games—ranking third in the Big 12 and twenty-sixth nationally. Offensively, Baylor began the year with a ten-game home winning streak that extended to eleven when including last year’s home finale, making it their longest such streak since winning twenty-two straight at home in 2012.
In previous matchups against Cincinnati, Baylor holds a two-to-one advantage from their only prior meeting during the 2024 season in Waco. The Bears lost the opener but came back to win the next two games. This season also features strong individual performances: senior left-handed pitcher Ethan Calder recently surpassed two hundred career innings pitched and delivered nine strikeouts against BYU; Davenport struck out twelve batters against Houston.
Redshirt junior shortstop Travis Sanders enters the weekend with a thirty-five game on-base streak dating back to last season—a mark tied for seventh-longest on Baylor’s modern-era leaderboard. Additionally, nearly half of all plate appearances this year have come from players with fewer than fifty-five career appearances entering this season.
Looking ahead, Baylor faces one of the nation’s toughest schedules according to WarrenNolan.com’s rankings and will play twenty-two games against NCAA Tournament teams from last year.
