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@MizzouBaseball Topples No. 8 LSU Sunday, 11-5, Claims Weekend Series
4/14/2019 4:30:00 PM | Baseball
Mizzou records its first all-time series win over LSU
COLUMBIA, Mo. – Mizzou Baseball (25-12-1, 7-7-1 SEC) improved to 3-0 in Southeastern Conference series' at Taylor Stadium this season following an 11-5 victory Sunday against No. 8 LSU.
Sunday marked Mizzou's first all-time series triumph over LSU. Entering play this weekend, Mizzou only possessed a 1-14 record all-time against the Tigers. This season in Columbia, Mizzou now holds SEC series victories over No. 20 Ole Miss (March 22-24), Kentucky (April 5-7) and LSU.
Mizzou also earned its fifth top 25 nationally ranked win of the season. All five of those victories have occurred in the last month of play with four of them taking place at Taylor Stadium.
Junior LHP Art Joven made his first career SEC start Sunday and delivered a strong outing. Joven didn't allow a hit until the sixth inning and limited LSU to two runs (both unearned) on three hits while striking out six batters.
Offensively, Coach Bieser saw fantastic production up and down the lineup. All nine Tiger batters recorded at least one hit, while eight batters produced a run scored and five individuals tallied an RBI. Mizzou's 11 runs scored and 14 hits both were single-game season-highs in an SEC matchup this season.
#ShowMe Top Performers vs. LSU
- Joven: (W) 6.2 IP, 3 H, 2 R, 0 ER, 6 K
- Cameron Dulle: 1.2 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 2 K
- Tony Ortiz: 2-for-3, R, HR, 4 RBI
- Kameron Misner: 2-for-4, R, 2B, HR, 3 RBI
- Clayton Peterson: 2-for-4, 2 R, RBI, SB
- Chris Cornelius: 2-for-5, 2 2B, RBI
Hear From Head Coach Steve Bieser
On Misner's mammoth home run in the eighth inning…
"Yeah, we're going to have to go to Trackman to find out which one was longer. Today's win didn't hurt that ball. He got into a ball just about as good as you can get into a ball. You saw LSU creeping back into the game and to put two more runs back on the scoreboard kind of put the dagger in them."
On Mizzou's first-ever series win over LSU…
"This was a big one. It's definitely a statement win for our program. We're here to stay and we're here to compete. That's exactly what the message I want our players to understand. Every series we go into we talk about it a lot. We talk about series wins. It doesn't matter if you go down 0-1 in the series like we did this weekend. You have to continue to battle. If you do enough right things then you can win a series."
On Joven's quality start on the bump…
"We knew that Art was there the whole time. It's such a luxury to have four quality left-handers like we do that are all starters. We expected Art to come in and throw really well today. I thought he was effectively wild early and once he settled in and gave us what we needed."
#MIZ Takeaways
- After dropping its first 13 all-time matchups versus LSU, Mizzou has responded with three wins in its last five meetings. This weekend's pair of victories joins Mizzou's solo triumph last season (March 17, 2018) at Baton Rouge.
- Mizzou continues to defend its home turf well in 2019, as Sunday's victory improved its record at Taylor Stadium to 16-3.
- Mizzou is now 11-1 this season when scoring double-digit runs.
- Mizzou tallied its 20th victory this season when leading after eight innings of play. It has yet to drop a single game in such instances.
- The long ball has consistently been Mizzou's friend this season. With a pair of home runs Sunday, Mizzou improved to 18-5 when clearing the fences.
- Mizzou has also consistently finished series' strong in 2019. Sunday's win over LSU improved Mizzou's record in series finales to 7-2-1.
- Junior UTIL Peter Zimmermann extended his safely reached base streak to 21 games Sunday. He has now matched Cornelius' streak of 21 games earlier this season for the longest by a Tiger this season.
- A whopping five Mizzou batters recorded a multi-hit outing at the plate Sunday, led by Cornelius' team-leading 16th multi-hit game of the season. Misner's pair of hits secured his 10th multi-hit game this season, joining Cornelius and sophomore C Chad McDaniel as Mizzou hitters with double-digit multi-hit performances.
- Ortiz continued his strong senior campaign with a four RBI performance Sunday afternoon. That total matched his season-high for the fourth time this season, while marking the fifth, four RBI performance of his career.
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Team Stats
Pitching:
W: Joven, Art (3-0)
L: Eric Walker (2-3)
Batting:
3B: Antoine Duplantis 1
RBI: Giovanni DiGiacomo 1 ; Antoine Duplantis 2 ; Brandt Broussard 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Josh Smith 2 ; Giovanni DiGiacomo 1 ; Antoine Duplantis 1 ; Brock Mathis 1
Batting:
2B: Cornelius, Chris 2 ; Misner, Kameron 1 ; Vierling, Mark 1
HR: Misner, Kameron 1 ; Ortiz, Tony 1
RBI: Peterson, Clayton 1 ; Cornelius, Chris 1 ; Misner, Kameron 3 ; Ortiz, Tony 4 ; Gomez, Paul 2
SH: Peterson, Clayton 1 ; Vierling, Mark 1
SF: Misner, Kameron 1 ; Ortiz, Tony 1 ; Gomez, Paul 2
Base Running:
RUNS: Peterson, Clayton 2 ; Misner, Kameron 1 ; Zimmermann, Peter 2 ; McDaniel, Chad 2 ; Vierling, Mark 1 ; Ortiz, Tony 1 ; Gomez, Paul 1 ; Peterson, Alex 1
SB: Peterson, Clayton 1
CS: McDaniel, Chad 1
