@MizzouBaseball Falls to No. 9 LSU, 9-5

Saturday, April 16

Columbia, Mo.

2 p.m.

University of Missouri

20-17, 4-10

LSU

24-11, 8-6

LSU

Mizzou

4/16/2016 5:33:00 PM | Baseball

Box Score

COLUMBIA, Mo. – Mizzou Baseball dropped game two of its series with No. 9 LSU, 9-5, on Saturday afternoon at Taylor Stadium. The game was tied 4-4 going into the seventh, but LSU scored five runs in the frame with four coming on a grand slam by Beau Jordan to take a 9-4 lead. LSU tagged Mizzou starter Tanner Houck (Collinsville, Ill.) for a career-high eight runs and five walks as he took the loss, his third of the season. Mizzou falls to 20-17 and 4-10 in SEC play this season.

LSU's Alex Lange earned the win, his third of the season. LSU improves to 24-11 and 8-6 in SEC play. Senior 1B Zach Lavy (Auxvasse, Mo.) extended his hitting streak to a career-long nine games, the longest streak by a Tiger this season. C Brett Bond (St. Louis, Mo.) and OF Trey Harris (Powder Springs, Ga.) each homered in the loss. Harris drove in two of Mizzou's four runs, his seventh game this season with multiple RBIs, second on the team.

Houck cruised through the first inning on 13 pitches, getting a pair of strikeouts looking and an easy 1-3 bounce out to retire the side. After Mizzou put two men aboard against Lange in the first, Trey Harris (Powder Springs, Ga.) struck out to strand a pair. LSU then tagged Houck for a two-out run in the second inning on an RBI single to RF by Beau Jordan.

Houck then escaped a runners-on-the-corners, no-out jam in the third with a pair of Ks and a flyout to center. Mizzou then took that momentum into the bottom of the third and plated a pair of runs, both with two outs. The first came on an RBI single by Harris and the next on a bases-loaded walk by Kirby McGuire (Round Rock, Texas).

LSU then scored three in the fourth inning, all with two outs, to take a 4-2 lead. Mizzou then homered in back-to-back innings in the fourth and fifth with solo shots by Brett Bond (St. Louis, Mo.) and Harris to tie the game at 4-4. Bond's homer was his team-leading fifth while Harris' was his first of 2016.

The game remained tied until the seventh inning as Houck struggled, loading the bases with two singles and a walk. He then walked in a run to give LSU a 5-4 lead while ending his day in favor of reliever Liam Carter (Highland Park, Ill.). Carter surrendered a grand slam to Beau Jordan and that gave LSU a 9-4 lead.

Mizzou then went quietly in the seventh and eighth despite reliever Austin Tribby (Springfield, Mo.) coming in and settling things down, pitching 2.1 shutout frames to close the game. Mizzou added a run in the ninth on Lavy's team-leading 14^th double of the season, cutting the lead to 9-5.

Mizzou and LSU will close the three-game series Sunday at 1 p.m. The game has been picked up by ESPNU with Ben Arnet and Colin McElroy on the call. For all the latest on all things Mizzou Baseball, stay tuned to MUTigers.com and follow the team on twitter @MizzouBaseball and like the team on Facebook and Instagram (Mizzou Baseball).

Postgame Notes

Mizzou now trails LSU in the all-time series, 10-0.
Mizzou falls to 5-8 on Saturdays this season.
CF Jake Ring singled in the first inning and has now reached base safely in 12 consecutive games, matching his longest streak of the season.
Ring stole second in the first inning, giving him an SEC-leading 21 stolen bases on the season. His 21 steals are the fifth-most in a single season in Mizzou history.
OF Trey Harris hit his first homer of the season on Saturday.
C Brett Bond hit his team-leading fifth homer of the season on Saturday
The multi-homer game for Mizzou was its first since Friday night (April 1) at Arkansas.
SP Tanner Houck had a 20.2 IP shutout streak at home snapped in the second inning on Saturday.
A season-high 2,559 fans took in Saturday's game.
1B Zach Lavy singled in the seventh inning to extend his hitting streak to a career-long nine games. It is the longest hitting streak by a Mizzou player this season.
Harris led Mizzou with two RBI on the day, marking his seventh multi-RBI game this season, second on the team.