3 grand slams in a game? Baylor slugger makes history

It wasn’t long into the 2026 college baseball season by the time Baylor’s Tyce Armstrong made some serious history.

During the Bears’ season opener Friday against New Mexico State at Baylor Ballpark in Waco, Texas, Armstrong pulled off an amazing feat at the plate -- one no Major Leaguer has ever equaled.

The Baylor first baseman crushed THREE grand slams, becoming the second college player on record to hit three grand slams in a game and the first in 50 years: Louisville’s Jim LaFountain hit three, including two in the same inning, in a 1976 contest against Western Kentucky.

How rare is Armstrong’s three-slam, 12-RBI (!?!) night in MLB terms? Well, only 13 Major League players have ever hit TWO grand slams in the same game, and it hasn’t happened since Josh Willingham did it in 2009.

Armstrong, a redshirt senior from Magnolia, Texas, delivered his first blow in the third inning, a projected 401-foot clout to extend Baylor’s 1-0 lead to a comfortable five runs. Back up again with two out in the fourth, he hit an even longer dinger -- a grand slam measured at 407 feet.

Looking for a three-run tater with two men on and nobody out in the sixth, Armstrong struck out, but he didn’t need to wait long. With the bases loaded, two more runs already in and one out in the seventh -- and Baylor cruising by an 11-2 score -- Armstrong turned on a pitch high and away for his record-tying third grand slam of the night.

Perhaps the best part? Because Armstrong's final slam put the Bears up by double-digit runs through seven innings, the game was called on the run rule for a 15-2 Baylor victory.

Talk about a great Opening Day.