PITTSBURG, Kan. – Free passes led directly or indirectly to six Pittsburg State (22-18, 14-12) runs in a 7-6 loss for the Missouri Western baseball team (18-16, 15-11) on Friday.

Four of the Gorillas’ seven runs were earned and the home team’s first two runs both walked to get on base. The loss snapped a string of four-straight wins for Missouri Western.

NOTABLES

• Andrew Curry put the Griffs up 2-0 with a two-run home run in the first inning
• Two walks and a single that scored both runners tied the game for Pitt State in the home half of the first
• The Griffs went up 4-2 in the third on a two-RBI single from Wyatt Meyer
• A sacrifice fly in the fifth gave Pitt State its third run, but would have been the third out were it not for an error earlier in the inning
• Another error and a passed ball aided a four-run eighth inning for Pittsburg State that gave the Gorillas their first lead and enough cushion to snap MWSU’s win streak
• Missouri Western was charged with four errors in the game
• Meyer had three hits and two RBIs
• Curry had a pair of hits and two RBIs

UP NEXT

• The rubber match in the series comes at noon on Saturday in Pittsburg.

— MWSU Athletics —