University of Missouri
Saint Louis
Missouri Blasts Saint Louis, 10-0
4/23/2002 12:00:00 AM | Baseball
April 23, 2002
O'FALLON, Mo. - Missouri's pitching staff faced one more batter than the minimum and took advantage of 16 hits en route to a 10-0 win over Saint Louis in a non-conference wood bat game Tuesday night at T.R. Hughes Ballpark.
The Tigers scored four runs in the their half of the third inning. Brent Lacy and Tony Vitello both reached to open the inning before Jayce Tingler had a bunt single down the third base line. Tingler's hit extended his hit streak to a career-best tying 15 games. Tingler also had a 15-game hit streak in 2000, his freshman season. Jody Roughton grounded out to score Lacy before Cody Ehlers singled to right field to score Vitello. Lee Laskowski grounded out to score Tingler. Mick Weiss lined a two-out single to right field to score Ehlers and give the Tigers a 4-0 lead.
Missouri scored three runs in the fourth inning. Luke Cassis reached on a bunt single before Brent Lacy singled to left field. Cassis scored on when an attempt to pick off Lacy went awry. Tingler singled to put runners on the corner before Lacy scored on a wild pitch. Roughton then singled to left field and score Tingler and give MU a 7-0 lead.
Laskowski singled to open the fifth inning and he scored on a double to left-center field by Weiss. The double was Weiss' 15th of the season and sixth in the past three games. Ryan Rallo, in his first action since suffering a concussion on April 2, doubled in the eighth inning to score Kurt Propst and Weiss to give MU a 10-0 lead.
Derek Roper improved to 2-2 with the win. Roper pitched five innings and faced only 15 batters, the minimum. He struck out four Saint Louis batters, allowing only 3 hits.
Matt Hobbs pitched a perfect sixth, striking out one. Drew Endicott allowed just one hit in the seventh, and Garrett Bauer struck out two in the eighth. Aaron Paterson closed the game for the Tigers, striking out the first two batters he faced.
Roughton and Ehlers led the Tigers with three hits each while Tingler, Laskowski, Weiss and Lacy each had two hits.
Missouri, which improves to 20-19 with the win, plays Texas A&M Friday at 7 p.m. in the first game of a three-game Big 12 Conference series.
