Friday's Game Suspended With MU Leading 11-10
5/13/2000 12:00:00 AM | Baseball
May 13, 2000
COLLEGE STATION, TX - The Missouri Tigers held a 11-10 lead over the Texas A&M Aggies (23-30, 11-16) in the bottom of the eighth inning Friday night at Olsen Field when a thunderstorm forced suspension of the Big 12 Conference baseball game.
The game will be completed at 5:30 p.m., Saturday, prior to the regularly scheduled second game of the series at 7 p.m.
The Tigers (29-22, 10-14) fell behind 10-3 after four innings before MU shortstop Ryan Stegall stopped the bleeding with a home run off the scoreboard in left field leading off the fifth inning. It was his eighth home run of the season.
Mizzou then erupted for a six-run sixth inning, chasing Aggies starter Chris Russ from the game. In his most recent outing, Russ had beaten the highly ranked Texas Longhorns, 5-3.
Catcher Ryan Pickett, who entered the game in the second inning when starter Jon Williams was injured in a collision with A&M's Daylan Holt, started the Mizzou sixth with a walk. J.R. Warner, Dustin Barnes and W.T. Hoover followed with singles before Jayce Tingler bounced into a forceout for the Tigers' first out of the inning. With the score 10-6, Stegall was hit by a pitch and Landon Brandes walked to force in a run. Nick Wilfong then doubled off the leftfield wall to drive in a pair of runs. Brandes scored to tied the game at 10-10 when pinch hitter Mike Rallo reached on an error by the second baseman.
Missouri took its first lead of the game in the seventh inning when Barnes led off with a double to left centerfield, was bunted to third by Hoover and scored on a single to left by Tingler.
Mitch Kiler (2-2) pitched a one-two-three seventh inning for the Tigers and was ready to take the hill in the eighth when the rain hit College Station.
Williams suffered a dislocated left thumb and was to return to Columbia today to undergo surgery.
