Friday, May 13
Columbia, Mo.
6 p.m.
University of Missouri
vs
Georgia
@MizzouBaseball Hosts Georgia on Senior Weekend
5/12/2016 3:52:00 PM | Baseball
Mizzou honors Hometown Heroes all weekend at Taylor Stadium
| OPPONENT | LOCATION | DAY // TIME | LIVE STATS |
|---|---|---|---|
| vs. Georgia | Taylor Stadium | Friday, May 13 // 6 p.m. | Stats |
| vs. Georgia | Taylor Stadium | Saturday, May 14 // 2 p.m. | Stats |
| vs. Georgia | Taylor Stadium | Sunday, May 15 // 1 p.m. | Stats |
- Mizzou Baseball will open its final homestand of the 2016 season this Friday (May 13) with a three-game series against SEC East foe Georgia. Both teams are squarely on the SEC Tournament bubble heading into the weekend, so the series will have major implications for each team's SEC Tournament hopes. Game one Friday will be at 6 p.m. and the Saturday game will be at 2 p.m. before Sunday's 1 p.m. finale. All of the games will air live on SEC Network+.
- Saturday's game will feature Senior Day festivities as Mizzou will honor its five seniors - OF Chris Akmon, RHP Tyler Hunt, 1B Zach Lavy, RHP Reggie McClain and LHP Austin Tribby. The five seniors will be honored pregame along with student managers Jake Curran and Gunnar Wilhelmy.
- Mizzou and Georgia have played nine times since Mizzou joined the SEC for the 2013 season. The Tigers have won six of the nine meetings, including all three a year ago in Georgia. Mizzou is 1-2 all-time in Columbia against Georgia and 5-1 all-time in Athens. In last year's series, Mizzzou and Georgia played a doubleheader Saturday due to poor weather in Athens Friday. Mizzou swept that doubleheader with a 5-1 win and an 8-4, 10-inning win. Mizzou then completed the sweep with a 6-0 win on Sunday. Then a freshman, C Brett Bond hit .545 with four runs, a homer and two RBI in the series. Georgia native Trey Harris hit .462 with two runs, a triple, a homer and five RBI. On the mound, RHP Reggie McClain, who began his college career at Georgia, tossed a complete game in his start last year in Athens, striking out eight and scattering just six hits with one run in a game-one win. Tanner Houck and Austin Tribby are the only other Mizzou pitchers to have faced UGA a year ago. Houck went 7.1 innings, scattering just five his with seven strikeouts and one walk while allowing three earned runs. UGA hit two homers against him.
- McClain will get the ball in game one for Mizzou on Friday night. Below are the complete pitching matchups.
- Friday: RHP Tanner Houck (4-5, 3.06 ERA) vs. RHP Robert Tyler (3-5, 3.98 ERA)
- Saturday: RHP Reggie McClain (4-3, 4.18 ERA) vs. LHP Connor Jones (5-5, 4.84 ERA)
- Sunday: TBA vs. TBA
Honoring the Seniors
Mizzou's senior class will be recognized prior to Saturday's first pitch. Below is a look at each senior's contributions:
- OF Chris Akmon: He came to the program in 2015 and has played in 20 games over his two-year career, tallying eight hits, two doubles and a homer with four RBI and seven walks. He also scored eight runs in his career.
- RHP Tyler Hunt: This Mizzou senior joined the team for the 2016 season after a standout career with the Mizzou Football program. He made his only career appearance on March 11 against Youngstown State and tossed a third of an inning.
- 1B Zach Lavy: Lavy has enjoyed a breakout season in 2016, leading the SEC in extra-base hits, doubles, slugging, total bases and he leads the nation in triples and all players from power five conferences in doubles. He has tallied the most doubles, extra-base hits, batting average and RBI by a Mizzou player since 2010 and his eight triples are the most by a Mizzou player since 1994. He has hit .290 in his career and has slugged 10 homers, 21 doubles and 12 triples and he will finish sixth in school history I career triples.
- RHP Reggie McClain: McClain came into the program as a redshirt junior in 2015 and has been Mizzou's Friday night starter for the last two seasons. He is a three-time SEC Pitcher of the Week and has won 11 games over his two seasons in Black & Gold. He has walked just 27 batters in 185.0 innings while striking out 154 as he has ranked in the top-10 nationally in strikeout-walk ratio and walks per nine innings since coming to Mizzou.
- LHP Austin Tribby: Tribby has 87 career pitching appearances, a mark that ranks fifth in program history. He owns a 4.66 ERA in 110.0 innings pitched and has struck out 103 batters in that those 110 innings, averaging nearly a strikeout per inning during his career. His 31 pitching appearances in both 2014 and 2015 are the 10th-most in school history and his 62 appearances over those two years are the second-most in over a two-year span at Mizzou.
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