Mizzou baseball’s 34 runs lock up first series win of the season
FORT MYERS, Fla. (KMIZ)
The Mizzou baseball team put up video game numbers in the opening weekend finale against Mount St. Mary's, on Sunday, as the Tigers clobbered the Mountaineers 34-3 to win the series.
Those 34 runs are the most MU has scored since the program record of 35 runs was set against William Jewell in 1902.
The Tigers' historic day came courtesy of a 13-run explosion in the third inning. With Mizzou up 5-3, Chris Patterson started the massive inning off with an RBI single up the middle to plate a run. From there, everyone's bats caught heat. Isaiah Frost, Tyler Macon, Pierre Seals and Jase Woita all brought runners across home plate in that inning, with Frost and Macon registering RBIs in two at-bats.
Through the next three innings, skipper Kerrick Jackson's group added on seven more runs, but they still had one more big inning left in them.
In the eighth, Mizzou plated seven more runs to get past the 30-run threshold, as Eric Maisonet, Macon, Woita, Sam Parker and Patterson all drove in runs. Parker and Patterson's RBI's in that inning came courtesy of home runs.
Macon, a redshirt sophomore out of Kirkwood, Missouri, was perfect on the afternoon, going 6-for-6 with a team-best eight RBI. Woita also joined him in the eight-RBI club, as he went 4-for-7 in Fort Myers.
In total, Jackson's group tallied three home runs off the bats of Woita, Park and Patterson. Those were MU's first homers of the season.
Up next - the Tigers will continue its tour of the Sunshine State with a matchup against Florida Atlantic on Tuesday, Feb. 17. First pitch is set for 5:30 p.m. CT.
