University of Missouri
25-9
Arkansas-Pine Bluff
9-23
@MizzouBaseball Wins Fourth Straight After Toppling Arkansas-Pine Bluff, 15-6
4/12/2017 7:51:00 PM | Baseball
Seven-run first inning is all Mizzou needs to complete series sweep
COLUMBIA, Mo. – Mizzou Baseball pushed its win streak to four games with a 15-6 win over Arkansas-Pine Bluff on Tuesday afternoon (April 12) at Taylor Stadium. Mizzou posted a pair of seven-run innings (the first and fourth) and pounded out four extra-base hits and two homers to score its second-most runs of the year. Mizzou moves to 25-9 on the year with the win.
Mizzou jumped all over Arkansas-Pine Bluff in the first, tallying four hits and taking advantage of a pair of errors to plate seven runs, staking starting pitcher Ryan Lee (Grandview, Mo.) to an early lead. Kirby McGuire (Round Rock, Texas), Chris Cornelius (St. Louis, Mo.) and Connor Brumfield (Columbia, Mo.) tallied two-out RBI singles in the frame.
UAPB took advantage of five walks, a wild pitch and an error in the top of the third inning to cut the lead to 7-3. LF Jordan Knox then hit a two-out, three-run homer to cut the lead to 7-6, getting the Golden Lions back into the game. But just as quick as UAPB got back into the game, Mizzou broke it open again with one run in the third and seven more in the bottom of the fourth, highlighted by homers from Brian Sharp (Liberty, Mo.) and Kameron Misner (Poplar Bluff, Mo.).
That was all the offense that Mizzou needed as sophomore RHP Cameron Dulle (St. Louis, Mo.) settled things down for the Mizzou pitchers from there as he tossed a career-long 3.1 innings and allowed just three hits with two strikeouts while holding UAPB off the board. He earned his first career win.
The Tigers return home this weekend for a big series with SEC East-leading Kentucky, beginning Friday at 6:30 p.m. For all the latest on all things Mizzou Baseball, stay tuned to MUTigers.com and follow the team @MizzouBaseball and like the team on Facebook and Instagram (Missouri Baseball).
Potent Quotables
Head Coach Steve Bieser
Opening statement…
"I think this series, offensively, they've done the things that I've asked them to do and I think it's looked a little bit better. We seem to be more aggressive at the plate and that's something that we want them to start doing and it's time to start trusting all the training they've put in. We got in a little phase there where we kind of went south on the offensive side, just second-guessing some of our decisions and not being really aggressive. I think we did a good job of being more aggressive with our decision this week."
Postgame Notes
- Mizzou moves to 3-0 on the year on Wednesdays
- Mizzou moves to 2-0 in two-game series this season.
- Mizzou now leads the all-time series with UAPB, 16-1.
- The Tigers rank fourth in the nation in sacrifice flies after Alex Samples hit one in the bottom of the first, making the season total 23.
- Connor Brumfield has reached base safely 19 straight times, which is the longest streak by any Tiger this season. Brumfield also leads the Tigers in number of multi-RBI games with eight.
- Mizzou had the most runs scored in the first inning with seven tonight. It only falls behind a game versus Eastern Michigan on February 18th with eighth runs in the fifth inning.
- Chris Cornelius hit his first career triple to center field in the bottom of the third inning.
- Brian Sharp hit his fourth homerun of the season into deep right field.
- This is the sixth time this season Mizzou has had double digit runs in a game. It is also back-to-back games scoring 13 runs.
- This is the Tigers 18th 10-hit game of the season.
- Misner hit a two-run homerun to right field, which marks his fourth of the season.
- Cameron Dulle pitched a career-high 3.1 innings and earned his first career win on Wednesday.
- Luke Boyster made his first pitching appearance since Feb. 18 against Eastern Michigan.
Team Stats
Pitching:
W: Dulle, Cameron (1-1)
L: Sergio Esparza (0-1)
Batting:
HR: Jordan Knox 1
RBI: Sergio Esparza 1 ; Jordan Knox 3
Base Running:
RUNS: Jaquese Moore 1 ; Bradly Lopez 1 ; Sergio Esparza 1 ; Dontrell Brown 1 ; Jordan Knox 1 ; Corey Henderson 1
HBP: Adam Graham 1
Batting:
2B: Cornelius, Chris 1
3B: Cornelius, Chris 1
HR: Misner, Kameron 1 ; Sharp, Brian 1
RBI: Brumfield, Connor 2 ; Misner, Kameron 2 ; Sharp, Brian 1 ; Samples, Alex 1 ; McGuire, Kirby 1 ; Cornelius, Chris 3
SF: Samples, Alex 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Brumfield, Connor 2 ; Misner, Kameron 2 ; Harris, Trey 1 ; Sharp, Brian 2 ; Mompierre, Nelson 1 ; Glendinning, Robbie 1 ; Samples, Alex 1 ; McGuire, Kirby 2 ; Cornelius, Chris 3
SB: Sharp, Brian 1 ; Glendinning, Robbie 1 ; Samples, Alex 1 ; McGuire, Kirby 1 ; Cornelius, Chris 1
CS: McGuire, Kirby 1
