@MizzouBaseball Wins Third Straight After Topping SIUE

Tuesday, April 5

Columbia, Mo.

6 p.m.

University of Missouri

18-13

SIU-Edwardsville

4-21

SIU-Edwardsville

Mizzou

@MizzouBaseball Wins Third Straight After Topping SIUE

4/5/2016 9:27:00 PM | Baseball

Box Score

COLUMBIA, Mo. – Mizzou baseball (18-13, 2-7) jumped out to an early lead and never looked back on its way to a 9-6 victory over SIUE (4-21) on Tuesday (April 5). The team scored in each of the first four innings for the first time this season to build a 9-0 lead after four. Mizzou held on with solid defensive play to put away the Cougars.

Senior 1B Zach Lavy (Auxvasse, Mo) drove in three of the first seven runs with a triple in the first inning and a sacrifice fly in the third, giving him a team leading 29 RBI this year. Lavy now has a team-leading eight games with multiple RBI.

Freshman RHP Grant Macciocchi (West Chester Township, Oh) earned the win in his first career start and in his first career appearance on the mound for Mizzou. He pitched two innings allowing no runs, no hits and only one base runner. Macciocchi needed only 14 pitches, 11 strikes, to get through two innings.

Sophomore third baseman Shane Benes (Town & Country, Mo) had an excellent game defensively, collecting a career-high five assists without committing an error. Benes made one of those assist ranging over to his left and throwing a strike to first to nab SIUE's Brock Irwin in the fifth inning.

The Mizzou infield turned three double plays tonight for the second time this season. It was the third time this year that the team has turned three or more double plays in a single game. Mizzou turned a season high five against St. Louis University March 29 at Kauffman Stadium.

Senior LHP Austin Tribby (Springfield, Mo) earned his second save of the season tonight, getting the final out on a three-pitch strikeout.

Mizzou welcomes Auburn of a three-game series beginning Thursday (April 7) at 6:30 p.m. on ESPNU. For all the latest on all things Mizzou Baseball, stay tuned to MUTigers.com and follow the team on twitter @MizzouBaseball and like the team on Facebook and Instagram (Mizzou Baseball).

Hear From Mizzou
Head Coach Tim Jamieson

Opening statement…
"I thought we took good swings early. I thought we were doing a good job drawing walks, working deep counts. But then from about the fourth inning on, we just stopped taking good swings after that."

On whether the team changed its mentality after opening a 9-0 lead…
"I think again, some people may think the game is over and lose focus a little bit. But to me, we have to keep scoring runs and that's what we did all weekend. We kept scoring runs even when we were up. We didn't do that today and that made it a lot more difficult than it had to be."

Postgame Notes

Tuesday marked the first career win, appearance and start for freshman RHP Grant Macciocchi.
Macciocchi pitched two innings, giving up no hits and no runs while only allowing one base runner.
Zach Lavy hit his team leading fifth triple of the season in the first inning.
Mizzou stole a total of six bases in the first inning, the most in a single inning this year. It finished with seven, just one off of a season-high.
Lavy drove in two with his triple in the first inning giving him multiple RBI for the team leading eighth time this season.
Lavy's three RBI gives him 29 on the season, a team lead.
Jake Ring stole three bases in the first four innings. That ties his career high for stolen bases in a single game.
Ring has now stolen 18 bases this year, the 10^th most in school history for a single season.
Mizzou scored four runs in the first inning. It was the 12^th time this season that the team has scored in the opening frame. Mizzou is 10-2 when scoring in the first.
Mizzou scored at least one run in each of the first four innings for the first time this season. It is the second time this year that the team has scored in four straight innings.
Trey Harris collected his ninth double of the season, one off of the team lead, in the seventh inning.
Harris collected his sixth multi-hit game of the season, tied for fourth most on the team.
Brian Sharp walked twice to extend his reached base streak to 14 straight games, tied for the longest such streak this season.
Shane Benes tied his career high with five assists in the field without committing an error.
The Mizzou infield turned three double plays today. It was the third time this season Mizzou has turned 3+ double plays in a single game.
Mizzou won despite being outhit 11-5 by SIUE. The win lifts their record when being outhit to 6-11.