COLUMBIA, Mo. – Mizzou Baseball completed a midweek series sweep of Alabama A&M with a 14-0 win Wednesday afternoon at Taylor Stadium. Mizzou walked a season-high 16 times, the most for Mizzou since 2005, finishing the two-game set with 27 walks. Mizzou turned a fifth-inning triple play to highlight the game, Mizzou’s first triple play since Feb. 23, 2015, in a 1-0 win over Purdue. Mizzou also got a sixth-inning grand slam from senior OF Trey Harris (Powder Springs, Ga.), who drove in a career-high six runs in the win.
Mizzou RHP Cameron Dulle (St. Louis, Mo.) earned the win, his first of the season, after going 2.2 shutout innings, striking out three and allowing just two hits. He came in with the bases loaded and one out in the third inning and got a pair of strikeouts as Mizzou seized momentum from there. Alabama A&M’s Quentin Alsbrooks took the loss, falling to 1-0.
TURNING POINT
While Mizzou scored four runs over the first two innings, the turning point of the game came in the bottom of the third. Alabama A&M loaded the bases with one out, threatening to cut into Mizzou’s lead. Head coach Steve Bieser brought in righty Cameron Dulle (St. Louis, Mo.) and he picked up a pair of strikeouts to end the threat. Mizzou then exploded for six runs in the bottom of the fourth and four more in the sixth, all on Harris’ slam, to put the game away.
NOTES
– Mizzou now leads the all-time series with Alabama A&M, 3-0.
– Mizzou is now 2-0 on Wednesdays, outscoring opponents 23-0 in those games.
– Mizzou is now 20-13 at home under second-year head coach Steve Bieser.
– Junior 3B Brian Sharp extended his hitting streak to seven games, the longest active streak by a Tiger while matching the longest by any Mizzou player this season. He’s reached base in eight straight games.
– Mizzou turned its first triple play since Feb. 23, 2015, against Purdue in a 1-0 win at the Kleberg Bank College Classic.
– Senior OF Trey Harris tallied his first career grand slam in the sixth inning. It was Mizzou’s second grand slam of the season and second in four games after Brian Sharp hit one in the second game of last Saturday’s doubleheader vs. Northeastern. He drove in a career-high six RBI Wednesday.
– As far as we can tell by looking in the record book, it is the first time that Mizzou has turned a triple play and hit a grand slam in the same game.
– Mizzou turned in its second shutout of the season, the first since last Wednesday at No. 24 Miami in a 9-0 win.
– Freshman RHP Cameron Pferrer made his collegiate debut, pitching the top of the eighth inning.
– Freshman RHP Drake Greenwood also made his collegiate debut, pitching the ninth inning.
– Mizzou’s 16 walks drawn were its most since March 20, 2005, vs. North Dakota when it also walked 18 times.
UP NEXT
Mizzou will host Maryland-Baltimore County this weekend in its first home weekend series of 2018. The series beings Friday at 6:30 p.m.
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