University of Missouri
Southeast Missouri
Tigers Fall 3-2 on Walk-Off Home Run
3/29/2006 12:00:00 AM | Baseball
March 29, 2006
CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. - - For the second-consecutive season, Missouri dropped a game at Southeast Missouri State on a walk off home run. Last year it was Ernie Bracamonte's homer in the 10th inning that gave SEMO the win. On Wednesday, Daniel Schuh connected for a one-out home run in the bottom of the ninth inning to give the Redhawks the 3-2 victory.
The loss is the first road loss of the season for the Tigers, who entered the game 7-0 on the road. Mizzou falls to 15-9 on the season, while Southeast improves to 7-14 on the season.
Mizzou was kept scoreless for the first six innings, before scoring a pair of runs in the top of the seventh. SEMO led 1-0 after six when senior Derek Chambers led off the seventh with a double and freshman David Cales followed with a walk. Two batters later, junior Gary Arndt drove in the Tigers' their first run, as Chambers scored on a single by Arndt.
Later in the seventh, with the bases loaded and two outs, senior Zane Taylor drew a walk, allowing Cales to score the go-ahead run.
Southeast Missouri State tied the game with a run in the eighth inning, as Phillip Riley singled to drive in Omar Padilla, who had walked to open the inning. Schuh then gave the Redhawks the win with his first home run of the season in the ninth.
The first hit for SEMO did not come until the bottom of the fifth inning, as Riley led off with a double. With two outs in the inning, the Redhawks' Robby Moore singled to drive in Riley with the game's first run. Prior to the fifth inning, Mizzou pitchers had faced just one over the minimum, as a walk in the second inning was the Redhawks' only baserunner through the first four innings.
Sophomore John Thies struck out five batters, the most for him as a Tiger, in 3.2 innings on the mound. He allowed just one run on two hits.
The game was delayed for 10 minutes prior to the start of the fourth inning due to a power outage of a bank of stadium lights.
The Tigers and Redhawks will meet again on April 12 in Columbia.
Missouri will take its Big 12 leading 5-1 conference record into Lawrence, Kan. this weekend for a three-game series with the Kansas Jayhawks, which gets underway at 6 p.m. on Friday night. All games can be heard on KTGR 1580-AM in Columbia and on the World Wide Web at www.KTGR.com. Live Stats for this weekend's games will be available through Gametracker on www.mutigers.com.
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