No. 18 @MizzouBaseball Falls to Arkansas, 9-2, in SEC Home Opener

Friday, March 24

Columbia, Mo.

12:00 PM

University of Missouri

20-2, 3-1

Arkansas

19-4, 4-0

Arkansas

Mizzou

No. 18 @MizzouBaseball Falls to Arkansas, 9-2, in SEC Home Opener

3/24/2017 6:08:00 PM | Baseball

Box Score

Mizzou posts second-longest win streak in school history

COLUMBIA, Mo. – No. 18 Mizzou Baseball's 20-game win streak came to an end after falling to the Arkansas Razorbacks 9-2, Friday afternoon at Taylor Stadium. Nine of the 10 runs scored in the game came with two outs on the board.

Mizzou's 20-game win streak marks the second longest win streak in school history, trailing only the 1964 team, who posted a 21-game streak. Entering the game, Mizzou also had the longest active win streak in the nation.

Sophomore Brian Sharp (Liberty, Mo.) paced the Mizzou offense, hitting 3-for-4 with a double and an RBI. Sharp is tied for the team lead with seven doubles on the season and has reached base in 12 consecutive games.

Arkansas drew first blood in the top of second after Tanner Houck (Collinsville, Ill.) loaded the bags and then plunked a batter to walk in the first run. Chad Spanberger plated two more for the visitors off a single to shallow right-center field. An error by freshman Chris Cornelius (St. Louis, Mo.) and a single extended the Arkansas lead to 5-0.

Lightning in the area forced the game into a two hour and 11 minute rain delay. Upon resumption of play, Cameron Dulle (St. Louis, Mo.) took the mound for Mizzou in relief for Houck and was quickly tagged with a run off a walk and a single to right.

Junior Trey Harris (Powder Springs, Ga.) sparked the Mizzou offense with a single ripped through the left side in Mizzou's half of the fourth inning. Sharp put Mizzou on the board with a double blasted to right field, pushing Harris across the plate.

In the bottom of the fifth, Robbie Glendinning (Scarborough, Australia) took an 0-2 pitch over the opposite field wall for his third homer of the season. Arkansas countered with an infield RBI in the top of the seventh, giving the visitors the 7-2 lead. The Razorbacks tacked on two more runs, one in the eighth and one in the ninth, to close out the game, 9-2.

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Potent Quotables
Head Coach Steve Bieser
Opening Statement…
"It's the same thing that we've dealt with, whenever you make miscues against good teams, it's hard to rebound. The second inning was huge – they earned their way to getting runners on second and third with no out, all of sudden Tanner does his thing, we've got two outs there and all of a sudden it looks like that we're going to get out of it. Then the wheels fell off there. The walk to the hit batter. We didn't execute pitches on a guy that we can execute pitches on and it seemed like we still had a chance to get out of it. We just didn't execute it on their one and two hole guys. Then all of a sudden they break it open and we have an E6 behind that. Whenever you spot a good team five runs, it's an uphill battle all the way. Quite honestly we had to be careful about how we attacked the rest of the game because the ultimate goal is to win the series. We were going to make sure we stayed in a position to give our guys the best chance to win a series."

Game Notes:

Sophomore OF Connor Brumfield has reached base in the leadoff position in five consecutive games.
Brumfield has recorded a hit in eight consecutive games for the longest active streak on the Mizzou roster.
Brumfield tabbed his ninth multi-hit game of the season, tying Robbie Glendinning for the team lead.
Junior RHP Tanner Houck pitched 21.1 scoreless innings prior to the five runs allowed in second inning against Arkansas.
Junior OF Trey Harris has reached base safely in six consecutive games.
Harris drew his team-leading 21^st walk of the season against Arkansas. Prior to the game, Harris was tied for second in the SEC in walks.
Sophomore INF Brian Sharp tied the team-high for doubles this season with his seventh of the year.
Sharp has reached base safely in 12 consecutive games.
Junior INF Robbie Glendinning knocked his third homer of the season, tying him for the team lead.
Redshirt sophomore RHP Cameron Dulle recorded a career-high five strikeouts against Arkansas.