Tuesday, April 25
Springfield, Mo.
6:30 PM
University of Missouri
at
Missouri State
@MizzouBaseball Closes Road Trip at Missouri State Tuesday
4/24/2017 3:45:00 PM | Baseball
Tigers and Bears play final of home-and-home midweek series
| IN-STATE RIVAL MISSOURI STATE VISITS TAYLOR STADIUM | ||||||
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| OPPONENT | LOCATION | DAY | TIME (CT) | Listen | Stats | Watch |
| at Missouri State | Hammons Field | Tuesday, April 25 | 6:30 p.m. | KTGR | Stats | ESPN3 |
- Mizzou Baseball and Missouri State will meet for second and final time this season on Tuesday night at Hammons Field in Springfield, Mo. The game is part of Mizzou's annual home-and-home series with the Bears. The game will be on KTGR in the Mid-Missouri area with first pitch slated for 6:30 p.m. Tex Little and Matt Michaels have the call, beginning with the pregame show at 6:15 p.m.
- Mizzou and Missouri State met a week ago in Columbia with the Bears coming out on top, 5-3, thanks to an eighth-inning error on a slow-roller to first base that allowed the fourth and fifth runs to score. Mizzou went just 2-for-10 with runners in scoring position and played the game without the reigning Collegiate Baseball Newspaper National Player of the Week Trey Harris, who was nursing a strained oblique. Mizzou left nine men on base without its hottest hitter in the lineup during that game.
- The Tigers are coming off of a tough weekend at Ole Miss. Mizzou won game one of the three-game SEC series, 9-3, behind a complete game from RS junior RHP Cole Bartlett who made an emergency start in place of Tanner Houck, who did not have enough time to warm up following a rain delay. The Tigers then dropped the next two games of the series. The Saturday game saw the offense tally just three hits (two in the ninth inning) in a 3-1 loss. Pitching cost Mizzou on Sunday in a 9-6 loss as a five-run fourth inning sank the Tigers, despite a late rally.
- Missouri State is coming off of a three-game series sweep over Wichita State. The Bears pounded out 33 runs over the three-game set. Dating back to April 15, the Bears have won their last six games and are averaging 10.17 runs per game in that span, including a 5-3 win over Mizzou last Tuesday.
- The pitching matchup between Mizzou and the Bears will remain the same as last week as far as starters are concerned. Mizzou will send junior RHP Andy Toelken to the mound. Last week vs. Missouri State, Toelken went 7.1 innings, scattering just six hits with three earned runs against the high-powered Bear offense. All-American 3B Jake Burger did touch him up for a two-run homer during the third inning.
- Over his last three starts, Toelken has returned to form, going deep into ball games. He has amassed 22.0 total innings over this last three starts and has allowed just 11 hits in those 22.0 innings. He has walked eight batters and allowed six earned runs, good for a 2.05 ERA in that span. Toelken has lowered his ERA from 4.56 to 3.50 over his last four appearances, which include the three midweek starts and a bullpen outing during the Florida series on March 31. On the year, Toelken is 2-2 with a 3.50 ERA in his first year of Division I baseball.
- Missouri State will send junior RHP Austin Knight to the mound. He started last week against Mizzou and went 5.0 innings. Mizzou tallied eight hits off of him and three runs (two earned). He did strikeout four Mizzou batters without a walk in the no-decision.
Pitching Matchup
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Tuesday
RHP Andy Toelken (2-2, 3.50 ERA) vs. RHP Austin Knight (2-1, 3.44 ERA)
Series History
- Mizzou and Missouri State renew a storied rivalry this week. MSU leads the all-time series, 28-26, and the two have played very close in the all-time series since 2012. Since that time, Mizzou and MO State have played 11 times with MO State holding a slight, 6-5 edge, including last week's 5-3 win.
- First-year Mizzou head coach Steve Bieser played Missouri State three times when he was the head coach at Southeast Missouri from 2013-16. Bieser went 1-2 against the Bears, losing 11-4 in 2013, winning 6-5 in 2014 and losing in 2015, 2-1. The two teams did not play in 2016. He is now 1-3 against MO State after last week.
- Missouri State scored two runs on an error in the eighth inning to escape Taylor Stadium with a 5-3 win over Mizzou Baseball last Tuesday night (April 18). Junior RHP Andy Toelken turned in an impressive start, going 7.1 innings while allowing just three earned runs while striking out six in a tough-luck loss as a two-out, eighth-inning error allowed the Bears to escape with a win.
- Mizzou got multi-hit games from five different players and sophomore OF Connor Brumfield reached base safely for the 23rd consecutive game (he has since lost that streak, seeing it snapped at 24 over the weekend at Ole Miss). Mizzou struggled with runners in scoring position, stranding nine men on the night while going just 2-for-10 as a team with runners in scoring position.
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