Mizzou baseball finished its sweep with a 10-1 win over Texas A&M on the strength of back-to-back three-run innings Sunday in College Station, Texas \u2014 marking\u00a0the Tigers’ first sweep since defeating Florida on April 6, 2024.<\/p>\n
Junior shortstop Jackson Lovich ended Game 3 one leg short of a cycle, going 3-for-5 with a leadoff home run to begin the game, a triple in the third and a double in the sixth, needing only a single to complete the feat.<\/p>\n
The Tigers (16-35, 3-24 Southeastern Conference) scored three runs in the sixth inning, one run off of a balk by Aggies sophomore right-hander Clayton Freshcorn and Lovich’s two-run double.<\/p>\n
Mizzou pushed three more runs across the plate in the seventh. Sophomore center fielder Kaden Peer doubled home a run while sophomore first baseman Mateo Serna and second baseman Keegan Knutson each drove in a run with an RBI single that stretched the lead to 10-1.<\/p>\n
The blowout contest began with Missouri jumping out to an early 2-0 lead in the top of the first inning. Lovich hit an opposite-field leadoff home run to right field to extend his on-base streak to 21 games, and Peer grounded an RBI single into right field.<\/p>\n
Two innings later in the third, senior right fielder Pierre Seals made it 3-0 with an RBI single after Lovich made his way to third with a triple. Seals later hit another RBI single in the fifth, hitting 3-for-3 with two RBI and a walk.<\/p>\n
In the bottom of the third inning, lefty Wil Libbert found himself in a jam with runners on second and third with one out after a dropped fly ball in center field. Libbert recorded a strikeout and a flyout against the next two batters he faced.<\/p>\n
The Tigers’ pitching staff extended its streak of not allowing an earned run to 18 innings before Aggies sophomore right fielder Caden Sorrell won a lefty-lefty matchup against Libbert and sent a solo shot to right field, making it 3-1.<\/p>\n
Libbert responded with back-to-back strikeouts and a flyout to end the inning. The redshirt freshman finished his day of work with five innings pitched and five strikeouts.<\/p>\n
Sophomore righty Josh McDevitt continued to hold the Texas A&M (27-23, 10-17) lineup in check. McDevitt took over pitching duties in the sixth and pitched four shutout innings, matching Libbert’s five strikeouts and earning the save in the process.<\/p>\n
Mizzou next plays Mississippi State in its last series of the regular season. Game 1 begins at 6 p.m. Thursday at Taylor Stadium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mizzou baseball finished its sweep with a 10-1 win over Texas A&M on the strength of back-to-back three-run…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16992,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2288],"tags":[2315,2309,5,2316,2323,2314,2317,2313,2340,2331,53,2330,2333,2335,2334,19,2310,2328,2304,2318,2308,2319,4,2305,2303,2322,2307,2320,2321,185,2350,2311,6230,2312,1039],"class_list":{"0":"post-21303","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb-postseason","8":"tag-athletic-sports","9":"tag-ball-and-bat-games","10":"tag-baseball","11":"tag-baseball-competitions","12":"tag-baseball-events","13":"tag-baseball-finals","14":"tag-baseball-games","15":"tag-baseball-playoffs-and-champions","16":"tag-baseball-positions","17":"tag-batting-order-baseball","18":"tag-detroit-tigers","19":"tag-glossary-of-baseball-terms","20":"tag-grass-field-surfaces","21":"tag-home-run","22":"tag-lawn-games","23":"tag-major-league-baseball","24":"tag-major-league-baseball-competitions","25":"tag-major-league-baseball-playoffs","26":"tag-major-league-baseball-postseason","27":"tag-major-league-baseball-seasons","28":"tag-major-league-baseball-teams","29":"tag-major-league-baseball-teams-seasons","30":"tag-mlb","31":"tag-mlb-playoffs","32":"tag-mlb-postseason","33":"tag-october-sporting-events","34":"tag-outdoor-sports","35":"tag-pitcher","36":"tag-seasons-in-baseball","37":"tag-sports","38":"tag-strikeout","39":"tag-team-sports","40":"tag-texas-am-aggies","41":"tag-turf-sports","42":"tag-world-series"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}