COLUMBIA, Mo. – Mizzou Baseball has its longest winning streak since 2008 after defeating Eastern Illinois, 10-1, on Tuesday afternoon at Taylor Stadium. Mizzou has now won 11 consecutive games and is off to its best start to a season since 1985 at 11-1. Junior RHP Bryce Montes De Oca (Lawrence, Kan.) had a good outing in his first career start, going 5.0 innings while allowing just one earned run on a wild pitch with three strikeouts. He allowed just three hits and two walks.
Mizzou’s offense slugged 15 hits and has now broken the 10-hit mark in nine of 12 games this season. Mizzou scored three runs in the first, three more in the third and one more in the fourth as the offense scored early to give Montes De Oca an early lead, who earned his first career win. RHP Ryan Lee (Grandview, Mo.) was tremendous in relief, striking out a career-high seven over 3.0 innings while allowing just one hit and no walks.
Junior C Brett Bond (St. Louis, Mo.) led the offense with Mizzou’s first five-hit game since April 23, 2011, when Jonah Schmidt had five at Baylor. Mizzou scored six of its 10 runs with two outs on Tuesday.
Junior Robbie Glendinning (Scarborough, Australia) opened up scoring for Mizzou, jacking a solo shot to right center field in the bottom the of the first. Bond and Kameron Misner (Poplar Bluff, Mo.) continued the offensive production for Mizzou with a single and a double, respectively, but it was Trey Harris (Powder Springs, Ga.) who plated both runs with a deep single to right center field.
Mizzou extended its lead in the third as Chris Cornelius (St. Louis, Mo.) knocked one to the opposite side pushing two across the dish. Senior Kirby McGuire (Round Rock, Texas) followed with an RBI single into left. After EIU tacked on a run in the top of the fourth inning on a wild pitch, Mizzou answered with a run on an RBI groundout by Samples. That made the score 7-1 after four innings.
Bond’s fifth hit went for an RBI single in the eighth inning and that was part of a three-run eighth as Harris laced a two-run double. Evan Stoll (Chesterfield, Mo.) pitched a shutout ninth to seal the win.
Mizzou welcomes Western Carolina to Taylor Stadium Wednesday at 4 p.m.
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