COLUMBIA, Mo. – No. 18 Mizzou Baseball’s 20-game win streak came to an end after falling to the Arkansas Razorbacks 9-2, Friday afternoon at Taylor Stadium. Nine of the 10 runs scored in the game came with two outs on the board.
Mizzou’s 20-game win streak marks the second longest win streak in school history, trailing only the 1964 team, who posted a 21-game streak. Entering the game, Mizzou also had the longest active win streak in the nation.
Sophomore Brian Sharp (Liberty, Mo.) paced the Mizzou offense, hitting 3-for-4 with a double and an RBI. Sharp is tied for the team lead with seven doubles on the season and has reached base in 12 consecutive games.
Arkansas drew first blood in the top of second after Tanner Houck (Collinsville, Ill.) loaded the bags and then plunked a batter to walk in the first run. Chad Spanberger plated two more for the visitors off a single to shallow right-center field. An error by freshman Chris Cornelius (St. Louis, Mo.) and a single extended the Arkansas lead to 5-0.
Lightning in the area forced the game into a two hour and 11 minute rain delay. Upon resumption of play, Cameron Dulle (St. Louis, Mo.) took the mound for Mizzou in relief for Houck and was quickly tagged with a run off a walk and a single to right.
Junior Trey Harris (Powder Springs, Ga.) sparked the Mizzou offense with a single ripped through the left side in Mizzou’s half of the fourth inning. Sharp put Mizzou on the board with a double blasted to right field, pushing Harris across the plate.
In the bottom of the fifth, Robbie Glendinning (Scarborough, Australia) took an 0-2 pitch over the opposite field wall for his third homer of the season. Arkansas countered with an infield RBI in the top of the seventh, giving the visitors the 7-2 lead. The Razorbacks tacked on two more runs, one in the eighth and one in the ninth, to close out the game, 9-2.
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