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Pregame Stuff
Arkansas is sticking with the same lineup for the second straight day.
T-1st: Mississippi State 1, Arkansas 0
After retiring the first two batters, Jaxon Wiggins gave up a first-pitch solo home run to Luke Hancock.
T-3rd: Mississippi State 2, Arkansas 0
RJ Yeager leads off the third inning with another solo bomb for Mississippi State.
B-3rd: Mississippi State 2, Arkansas 1
Zack Gregory gets Arkansas on the board with a leadoff opposite-field home run in the third. It's his second long ball in as many games.
B-4th: Arkansas 2, Mississippi State 2
This game is tied. Braydon Webb keeps the trend of solo home runs going by crushing one into the Hog Pen to make it 2-2.
T-6th: Mississippi State 3, Arkansas 2
Yet another solo home run puts the Bulldogs back on top. This time it was Logan Tanner who sent Evan Taylor's pitch into the left field bullpen.
B-6th: Arkansas 3, Mississippi State 3
Arkansas' first two batters reached base via an infield single by Lanzilli and walk by Moore. Braydon Webb perfectly executed a sac bunt to move them to second and third and then Brady Slavens drove in the tying run on a sacrifice fly.
B-9th: Arkansas 3, Mississippi State 3
After a leadoff single by Brady Slavens and walk by Jalen Battles, Gregory laid down a sac bunt to get the winning run just 90 feet away. Mississippi State intentionally walked Wallace to load the bases and brought in Jackson Fristoe to face Peyton Stovall with one out.
Stovall and Turner struck out, though, to strand the bases loaded.
T-12th: Mississippi State 5, Arkansas 3
The Bulldogs finally break the tie with a two-out RBI single by Luke Hancock. Logan Tanner followed with an RBI single to give them a two-run lead.
FINAL - Mississippi State 5, Arkansas 3
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Arkansas (21-4, 7-1) vs. Mississippi State (16-12, 3-5)
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Pitching matchup
ARK: So. RHP Jaxon Wiggins (6 G/6 GS, 34 IP, 3.71 ERA, 1.12 WHIP, 37 K/19 BB, .161 opp. avg.
MSU: So. RHP Cade Smith (6 G/6 GS, 34 IP, 2.91 ERA, 1.15 WHIP, 35 K/11 BB, .220 opp. avg.)
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