COLUMBIA, Mo. – Mizzou Baseball (11-20) fell 7-5 to Missouri State (12-10) on Tuesday night at Taylor Stadium.
The Bears jumped to a 4-0 lead with runs in each of the first three innings. Two fifth-inning tallies extended the advantage to 6-0 before the Tigers scratched a run across. Senior Brandt Belk doubled in the bottom half, his fourth two-bagger in the past two games, and later scored on a wild pitch.
Trailing 7-1, Mizzou mounted a rally in the eighth inning to score four times. Junior Tre Morris drove home a pair with his third hit of the night, a double to right center. Junior Joshua Day and sophomore Torin Montgomery followed with RBI-knocks to trim the deficit to 7-5.
After the eighth ended with a runner cut down at the plate, the Tigers were unable to finish the comeback effort.
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HEAR FROM THE SKIPPER
Head coach Steve Bieser on midweek loss…
"We're trying to win a ball game and we need to do a little bit better there. We're still dealing with too many free passes – walks and hit batters – and when you put them on that way, they usually score. We just dug ourselves too big of a hole to get out of tonight."
#MIZ TAKEAWAYS
- Morris' three-hit night was his first of the season and fourth multi-hit game this year.
- Senior Jackson Lancaster made his season debut on the mound and pitched a scoreless top of the eighth with two strikeouts.
- Fifth-year Andrew Keefer made his collegiate pitching debut in the ninth, also notching a pair of strikeouts in a scoreless frame.
- Montgomery and Day each extended their hitting streaks to six games.
- Montgomery produced his sixth multi-hit game of the season and fourth in the last five games.
UP NEXT
Mizzou hits the road for an SEC series at No. 18 Florida. Game one of the series is set for 5:30 CT on Friday (April 16) and will stream on SEC Network+.
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