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Chris Patterson
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9
Winner Missouri MIZ 14-35, 1-24 SEC
6
Texas A&M TAMU 27-21, 10-15 SEC
Winner
Missouri MIZ
14-35, 1-24 SEC
9
Final
6
Texas A&M TAMU
27-21, 10-15 SEC
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Missouri MIZ 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 6 9 12 0
Texas A&M TAMU 1 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 7 1

W: Lovett, Xavier (2-2) L: Kaiden Wilson (0-2)

Game Recap: Baseball |

Baseball Rides Ninth-Inning Comeback to First SEC Victory

COLLEGE STATION, Texas – University of Missouri baseball overcame a five-run deficit, scoring six times in the top of the ninth inning to earn its first Southeastern Conference victory of 2025 with a 9-6 decision over Texas A&M Friday evening at Blue Bell Park.

Trailing throughout the contest and facing a three-run deficit entering the ninth, the Tigers (14-35, 1-24 SEC) put their first six batters on base in the decisive rally to turn the tide for good. Kaden Peer tied the game with a two-run double, and Chris Patterson brought home the go-ahead runs with a fielder's choice grounder to short coupled with an Aggies throwing error. A wild pitch netted the sixth Mizzou run of the inning, and Xavier Lovett closed out an impressive relief effort by the Tigers' bullpen with a 1-2-3 bottom of the ninth.

Jackson Lovich spearheaded the Tigers' 12-hit attack, finishing 2-for-5 with three RBIs, including a key run-producing single in the ninth and a two-run homer in the fifth that started Mizzou's comeback from a 6-1 deficit. Keegan Knutson also played a starring role in the Tigers' late rally, igniting the offense with his second single of the contest to open the ninth. Jedier Hernandez, who logged a pair of hits off the bench, then drew a walk and Gehrig Goldbeck was hit by a pitch to load the bases and set the stage for the heroics of Lovich, Peer and Patterson.

Mizzou's three relievers - Lovett, Kaden Jacobi and Brock Lucas – combined to blank the consensus preseason No. 1 team in the nation on just two hits over the final 6 2/3 innings.

The victory ended the Tigers' 12-game skid and gave Mizzou its first SEC win since its 2024 season-ending 4-3 decision over Mississippi State last May.

Texas A&M (27-21, 10-15 SEC) homered three times during a five-run third inning to establish the early advantage. Jace LaViolette led the Aggies charge, hitting a pair of go-ahead homers, including a leadoff solo shot that sparked the five-run outburst by the home club that snapped a 1-1 deadlock. Wyatt Henseler followed LaViolette's 17th home run of the season with a round-tripper of his own, and Blake Binderup delivered the biggest blow of the inning with a three-run blast to left that stretched the A&M lead to five runs.

Aggies starting pitcher Ryan Prager made the lead stand, setting the Tigers down in order in three of the first four innings. Mizzou's lone scoring chance over the same span occurred in the second, when Patterson singled to initiate a Tigers rally. With two out and Patterson on second following a stolen base, Knutson beat out an infield hit – one of three infield singles for the Tigers in the inning – before Hernandez came off the bench to line a run-scoring single through the left side of the Aggies infield to tie the game.

Mizzou put together another threat in the fifth, using another Hernandez single to set up Lovich's 10th home run of the season – a two-run shot to center that pulled the Tigers to within three runs.

That's where the score remained until the ninth, thanks in large part to the combined efforts of the Tigers' relief corps. Jacobi gave Mizzou 2 2/3 shutout innings, allowing just one hit, before Lucas provided 2.0 innings of one-hit relief. Lovett put the finishing touches on the effort with two shutdown innings, facing the minimum without allowing a hit to earn the mound victory.

TIGER NOTEBOOK

  • With the victory – Mizzou's second in a row over Texas A&M – the Tigers now have a 40-55-2 all-time record against the Aggies.
  • Mizzou out-hit the Aggies by a 12-7 margin, giving them 22 double-digit hit totals this season.
  • Lovich extended his reached base streak to 19-straight games with his fifth-inning home run – the 21st of his Mizzou career.
  • Lovich matched his personal season best with home run number 10, equaling his 2024 season total.
  • Knutson (2-for-4) registered his seventh multi-hit game of the season, including his fourth in SEC play.
  • Patterson recorded his second consecutive two-hit game and his fourth in SEC play this season, which is tied for the second-highest total on the team.
  • Jacobi turned in 2.2 scoreless innings of relief, retiring eight of the final nine batters he faced, before Lucas struck out three in his two frames.
  • Lovett, who pitched for Texas A&M in 2022, earned his first SEC victory with his two hitless innings.
  • Hernandez finished 2-for-3 off the Mizzou bench for his first multi-hit game of the season and his first since a 3-for-5 effort vs. Auburn on May 10, 2024.
  • Cayden Nicoletto extended his hit streak to five games with a fifth-inning single.

UP NEXT
Mizzou and Texas A&M continue their three-game series Saturday afternoon with a 2 p.m. contest at Blue Bell Park.

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