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@MizzouBaseball Set for Top-25 Showdown at Auburn
3/29/2018 4:03:00 PM | Baseball
Tigers vs. Tigers begins Friday at 6 p.m.
- No. 22 Mizzou Baseball is set for a top-25 matchup at No. 16 Auburn this weekend as it plays its third SEC weekend series of 2018 at Plainsman Park. Friday's game at 6 p.m. will air on SEC Network+. Saturday's 6 p.m. game will be on SEC Network, as will the Sunday finale at 2 p.m.
- Mizzou and Auburn are meeting for the first time since 2016 when Mizzou took two of three at Taylor Stadium, thanks to a 2-0 win Saturday and a 4-3 series-clincher Sunday. Tanner Houck earned SEC Pitcher of the Week after throwing a complete game four-hitter in the Saturday game, striking out 10. Mizzou leads the all-time series with Auburn, 10-4, including a 6-3 mark since joining the SEC. The two also played in 2012 during Mizzou's final season in the Big 12 with Mizzou taking two of three at Plainsman Park. Mizzou has won all four three-game series that it has played vs. Auburn.
- Mizzou is coming off an SEC series win over west foe Mississippi State last weekend at Taylor Stadium. Mizzou won, 4-1, Friday night behind a strong pitching performance from junior LHP T.J. Sikkema and a pair of clutch RBI singles from senior C Brett Bond. Mizzou then fell, 3-1, Saturday in a 15-inning marathon despite the Tigers carrying a 1-0 lead into the top of the ninth inning. In the Sunday rubber game, Mizzou rallied from down 4-2 to score a pair of runs in the ninth inning and then walked it off on an RBI sacrifice fly by freshman INF Mark Vierling in the bottom of the 11th inning. Vierling also had the game-tying RBI in the bottom of the ninth. In all, Mizzou played 35 innings and 12 hours, 25 minutes of baseball in the three-game series. Mizzou pitchers threw 493 total pitches over the three-game set. Mizzou's Wednesday contest at WIU was cancelled.
- With a 55-29 mark in his first 84 games as Mizzou's head coach, Mizzou head coach Steve Bieser is just three wins shy of winning more games in his first two seasons than any Mizzou head coach in history. Tim Jamieson won 58 in his first two seasons at the helm of the program in 1995-96. Bieser needs three wins to match that mark and four to pass it.
- Mizzou is 26 games over .500 at 55-29 since Bieser took over, marking the first time Mizzou has been that far above .500 over an 84-game span since Feb. 9, 2007 through March 29, 2008, when it was 62-22.
- Mizzou has a budding young superstar on its hands in sophomore 1B/CF Kameron Misner. After a Freshman All-America season a year ago, Misner is turning into one of the nation's most feared hitters, posting multiple hits games in eight of his last 10 contests. He leads the SEC in four different categories and is all over the league's top 10 in nearly every statistical categories. Below is just snapshot of some of the stats that make him one of the most feared hitters in all of college baseball.
- Nation's Leader in Walks (31)
- 25th Nationally / 3rd in SEC in hits (38)
- Second Nationally / Leads SEC in OBP (.565)
- Third Nationally / Leads SEC in Runs (34)
- 24th Nationally / Leads SEC in Stolen Bases (12)
- Second in SEC in hitting (.413)
- 24th Nationally / 5th in SEC in Total Bases (64)
PROJECTED STARTERS
- Friday: Sophomore LHP T.J. Sikkema (2-0, 1.89 ERA) vs. Junior RHP Casey Mize (5-0, 2.04 ERA)
- Saturday: Junior LHP Michael Plassmeyer (3-0, 2.45 ERA) vs. Sophomore RHP Davis Daniel (2-0, 3.86 ERA)
- Sunday: RS Junior LHP Bryce Montes De Oca (3-1, 3.96) vs. TBA
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