No. 4 Arkansas clobbers walk-off HR, beats Ole Miss baseball 6-3 in demoralizing fashion

Ole Overlook baseball misplaced one more Saturday heartbreaker.

The Rebels lost 6-3 to No. 4 Arkansas in Fayetteville by using a walk-off household run with a single out in the ninth inning. For Ole Overlook (24-18, 7-13 SEC), the loss evens the sequence from the Razorbacks (323-10, 13-7) at one particular earn apiece and sets up a essential Sport 3 on Sunday that could close up actively playing a large aspect in the Rebels’ postseason probabilities.

Sophomore ideal-hander Jack Dougherty threw two shutout innings to preserve the Razorbacks at 3 operates in the seventh and eighth inning. He arrived back out for the ninth inning and logged a swift strikeout just before providing up a one and a wander to put the go-forward operate in scoring posture with a single out. Dougherty authorized a a few-run wander-off household operate on a entire count to Arkansas’ Kendall Diggs to spoil the comeback and drop the video game.

This is the fourth Saturday in a row that Ole Overlook has arrive back again and tied the score in the eighth inning or later on and still missing.

Ole Miss out on consistently put itself in great positions in the late innings. The Rebels experienced two in scoring situation with no person out in the seventh inning but could not scratch a run throughout thanks to a strikeout, a groundout and a popout. In the eighth inning, Ole Skip loaded the bases with nobody out and could only score one particular run on a Peyton Chatagnier double participate in, tying the rating at 3-3.

This led the Rebels to the ninth inning, when Justin Bench and Jacob Gonzalez led off the frame with back-to-back walks. Tim Elko struck out and Kevin Graham bounced into a controversial double engage in where by the to start with foundation umpire overruled the second foundation umpire on a tag/no tag contact to close the inning.

Ole Skip completed regulation hitting 2-for-18 with runners on foundation and -for-13 with runners in scoring posture.

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Tale carries on

Freshman left-hander Hunter Elliott grew to become just the next Ole Skip pitcher to full 6 innings in SEC participate in this period. Elliott allowed 3 operates on four hits, two of which have been property runs, throughout his six innings, placing out 8 Razorbacks but departing the sport with his workforce trailing 3-2.

T.J. McCants and Elko opened the scoring for Ole Pass up with solo household runs in the next and third innings. The household run was Elko’s 17th of the 12 months and the 39th of his Ole Overlook profession, placing him a person residence run shy of fourth put in plan history.

Ole Overlook and Arkansas return for the third match of this three-sport sequence on Sunday. First pitch is scheduled for 12 p.m. and the activity will be broadcast on ESPN.

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