Pitching struggles early gives Mississippi State big lead, sets up third game decider
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — The safest place in Baum-Walker for Arkansas Razorbacks games in the first couple of innings would be standing on home plate. The pitchers have had trouble getting started and it happened again Saturday night in an 8-5 loss to Mississippi State.
Tygart got in trouble early, walking the first two batters he faced. Then what appeared to be a routine double-play grounder to Wehiwa Aloy near second was bobbled by Peyton Stovall covering, who appeared to stumble coming to the bag, and loaded the bases. The Bulldogs' Dakota Jordan brought in one run with a single and Amani Larry delivered a two-strike line-drive homer over the left-field wall for a quick 3-0 lead.
The Razorbacks did get their first baserunners in the bottom of the second after Aloy came within inches of a homer to dead center field that resulted in a double. Ben McLaughlin got a walk from State pitcher Jurrangelo Cijntje. The Hogs couldn't take advantage.Mississippi State broke the game wide open in the fourth with two-run homers from Jordan and Logan Kohler to take an 8-0 lead as Dave Van Horn continued to ride with Bybee on the mound.
Stovall got the Hogs rolling, continuing to chip into the lead and get Cijntje out of the game in the fifth inning. His two-run homer was a solid blast over the right-field wall, cutting the lead to 8-4. Aloy followed with a line-shot double to the wall in left-center with just one out, but was left stranded on base.The Hogs got runners on the corners in Nolan Souza and Lovich at first. Diggs moved them up and cut the lead to 8-5 on a sacrifice fly to center.
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