Photos and story by Kevin Donnellan
Missouri lost to Baylor 5-3 on Friday, giving the Bears the series win with a game to spare. Three runs for the Bears in the sixth helped them to their 11th straight Big 12 win.
Missouri’s starting pitcher Blake Holovach finished with a ERA of 2.86 over five and two-third innings and was replaced by Dusty Ross with Missouri trailing 5-1. The Tigers had plenty of chances to level things in the final four innings with seven players getting on base, but multiple times Missouri failed to push home its advantage.
Tigers coach Tim Jamieson saw it as a missed opportunity. “We had so many opportunities to score runs,” Jamieson said. “You don’t get it done one time it gives momentum to the other team. You don’t get it done multiple times, the guys at the plate start to doubt.”
The series concludes at Taylor Stadium Saturday at 11 a.m.
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Conner Mach attempts to put out Lawton Langford in the sixth. Langford eventually made it home to regain the lead for Baylor.
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The Bears’ Trent Blank pitching in the third inning. The senior came into the game with a 1.88 ERA and he further enhanced his record Friday, throwing 102 pitches, including 72 strikes, over six innings.
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Gavin Stark fails to put out Baylor’s Adam Toth in the fourth inning with the score still 1-0.
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Eric Garcia returns to the dugout after striking out swinging at the bottom of the ninth with two out and Conner Mach on base.
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Short stop Eric Garcia is put out at first in the second inning. Missouri did not register a run until the fifth.
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Catcher Ben Turner speaks with Blake Holovach during the sixth inning. Holovach gave up nine hits and five runs before being replaced by Dusty Ross after five and two-third innings.
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Baylor catcher Josh Ludy misses the tag and Ben Turner makes it home safely in the fifth to tie the game 1-1.
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Baylor’s Nathan Orf (4) is congratulated on his lead-off home run in the first inning against Missouri on Friday, April 6, 2012, in Columbia, Mo.
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