The Mizzou baseball team that took the field in Game 2 against Arkansas-Pine Bluff looked vastly different than the one that put up 15 runs the day before.

The high-scoring offense stalled in Missouri’s 5-1 win over UAPB on Wednesday. This victory is Missouri’s fifth consecutive, a feat that hasn’t been accomplished since April 2024.

Jordan Medellin had the Tigers’ number. The Arkansas-Pine Bluff starter brought a perfect game into the fifth inning, but walked Blaize Ward for Mizzou’s first base-runner. The walk brought the outing to just a no-hitter, which later ended in the sixth.

“Our guys couldn’t lay off the changeup,” Missouri coach Kerrick Jackson said. “He threw it really well, he had us guessing on that.”

The Tigers matched Medellin with their own strong start on the mound. In the first start of his career, freshman right-hander Luke Sullivan tossed 5⅓ innings with just one hit and five strikeouts. His scoreless outing is the second from a Tigers’ starter in 2026.

A lack of control from Jackson Sobel, who entered the game in relief of Sullivan, tossed the shutout away. Sobel walked his first batter, who quickly stole second and then advanced to third on a wild pitch. Another wild pitch allowed the runner — and the game’s first run — to cross.

Finally the Tigers began to figure out Medellin in the fifth, right fielder Isaiah Frost lined the ball past the first baseman for a single to break the no-hitter. Medellin was pulled immediately after for relief pitcher Brendan Hamlin. The pitching change was followed by another single from Tyler Macon.

“It was huge, right? Because that forced them to go to the bullpen,” Jackson said. “Isaiah’s been really good.”

Hamlin was pulled after single for right-hander Jalen Porter. The next pitcher hit his first batter, Cameron Benson, to load the bases. Two consecutive outs build pressure as designated hitter Mateo Serna stepped to the plate.

Serna smashed a grand slam off the bat that landed in the Tigers bullpen into the hands of Sam Rosand. This finally broke the game open in the bottom of the sixth inning to give Mizzou a 4-1 lead.

“I was just trying to get a pitch to hit and barrel it,” Serna said. “That’s about it.”

A fifth run crossed on a bases loaded groundout by Serna in the eighth to plate Frost, who singled to get on base.

After his home run “catch”, Rosand entered the game in the eighth. Rosand gave up two hits and walked one batter to load the bases before he was pulled. He helped record two outs in the inning. Veteran left-hander Ian Lohse followed and avoided any damage with a bases-loaded strikeout.

“(Rosand) has a really good arm,” Jackson said. “But, the nerves are still working for him a little bit.”

Lohse tossed a clean ninth to close the game and get the save, his second of the season.

“It’s just about execution,” Lohse said. “My big thing up there on the mound is just whatever I can do to get the job done. That’s really all it is.”

The Tigers swept the two-game midweek series against UAPB to move to 7-2 in the 2026 campaign. The team will return to the field at 6 p.m. Friday at home for Game 1 against North Dakota State. Left-hander Javyn Pimental will have the ball for the series-opener.