ARLINGTON, Texas -- Arkansas sophomore Kuhio Aloy's big late-inning swing only tied the game Friday night when the Razorbacks by one run to Kansas State.

On Saturday, Aloy's big swing, several pressure pitches and defensive plays down the stretch helped the fifth-ranked Razorbacks to a 2-1 victory over 23rd-ranked TCU in front of a pro-Arkansas announced crowd of 17,994 at Globe Life Field.

The Razorbacks (5-1) will attempt to leave North Texas with a winning weekend record when they play Michigan at 11 a.m. Central on Sunday.

"Last night's loss really pissed us off," Aloy said. "We wanted to come out here and win this game. It meant a lot to us."

Arkansas and TCU (5-1) turned in a late February game with shades of late May that included several highlight plays down the stretch.

None was bigger than Aloy's pinch-hit, two-run double in the seventh to put the Razorbacks ahead 2-1.

Aloy, a right-hander, stayed in the game as a pinch hitter after the Horned Frogs went to a right-handed relief pitcher with runners at second and third base with one out. On the first pitch Aloy saw from Louis Rodriguez, he lined the double off the base of the wall in left field to give Arkansas its first and only runs.

"There's a lot of guys in the dugout that can do the job," Aloy said. "I just felt like the coaches felt like I was the person to do it. It feels good to know the coaches are counting on you."

Aloy's hit scored Logan Maxwell and Brent Iredale, who drew 4- and 5-pitch walks, respectively, against TCU right-handed starter Tommy LaPour to lead off the seventh.

Arkansas first baseman Cam Kozeal executed a sacrifice bunt toward third base in a left-on-left matchup against reliever Gianluca Shinn.

That brought Aloy to the plate in place of the left-handed Kendall Diggs, but TCU Coach Kirk Saarloos went back to the bullpen to put Aloy into a right-on-right situation, and Arkansas Coach Dave Van Horn stuck with him.

"We kind of knew exactly what was going to happen -- if we make this move they're going to make that move, and then he's going to end up hitting against a right-hander," Van Horn said. "I just told him, 'This right-hander is going to throw you off speed.'

"It was up and in and he hammered it."

Aloy also hit a solo home run 424 feet during the sixth inning Friday to tie the Kansas State game 2-2. The Wildcats scored the winning run in the next half inning to win 3-2.

In limited but qualifying at-bats, Aloy has a team-best batting average of .417 to go with 3 home runs, 2 doubles and 7 RBI.

"He's been good for us," Van Horn said. "It's good to have some options off the bench."

The leadoff walks to Maxwell, a TCU transfer, and Iredale came moments after Arkansas left fielder Charles Davalan robbed Karson Bowen of a home run to end the sixth inning. Bowen's fly ball measured 378 feet, but the 5-9 Davalan jumped at the wall and made the catch above the yellow line.

"It did excite us a little bit," Van Horn said.

The Razorbacks also turned double plays to erase leadoff singles in the eighth and ninth innings, and right-handed closer Christian Foutch stranded TCU base runners at second and third with a game-ending strikeout of Anthony Silva.

No defensive play was more scrutinized than the first base-to-shortstop-to-first base double play started and ended by Kozeal in the eighth. As Kozeal scrambled to get back to the base, his left leg was across the green bag reserved for the base runner. Saarloos successfully appealed to the Big 12 umpire staff to review the play for obstruction, but the call was upheld.

"They said there was no interference," Saarloos said. "They said he had an opportunity to run on the white bag, and I said, 'Well that's really hard to do when you're running as fast as you can down the line and it's a late move to try and jump to the inside.' I thought it was interference and that's why the new bag is there, but obviously that's not the way it went."

Foutch pitched 1 1/3 innings to earn his first save of the season. The junior worked around 1 hit and 2 walks, plus a throwing error by catcher Ryder Helfrick that allowed TCU to put the tying run at third base with two outs.

For a while it appeared the Horned Frogs would get the best of a pitcher's duel. LaPour rolled through the first 6 innings in 78 pitches as he allowed 2 runs and struck out 5. He had no walks until the consecutive he issued to lead off the seventh. LaPour had retired 11 batters in a row before the walk to Maxwell.

"He was just pounding the [zone] with that fastball," Van Horn said.

Arkansas had several hard-hit balls against LaPour, but most found TCU gloves.

"We hit five or six balls right on the nose," Van Horn said. "We didn't have much to show for it. ... There were two balls hit with runners in scoring position right at them."

Arkansas starter Zach Root allowed 1 run on 2 hits and 2 walks while striking out 10 in 5 innings. Root limited the damage when the Horned Frogs threatened to blow the game open in the fourth.

Root walked Chase Brunson to lead off the inning and Noah Franco followed with a single. Root struck out Cole Cramer for the first out and had Bowen behind 0-2 but hit him in the back to load the bases with one out.

Sam Myers reached on a fielding error by Arkansas freshman second baseman Gabe Fraser, who was making his first start, which allowed Brunson to score.

Root struck out Silva and Sawyer Strosnider to strand the bases loaded.

"He did a good job," Van Horn said of Root. "I liked what I saw."

Landon Beidelschies, a starter for the season-opening series against Washington State, pitched 2 2/3 innings of scoreless relief. The left-hander worked around one hit and one walk.

"It's definitely a good problem to have when you have Landon Beidelschies coming out of the pen," Root said. "He's a dog. When he got put in, there was no doubt in my mind he was going to get it done."