Trevor Austin's one-out homer the following inning stretched the margin to three runs.īut Georgia plated four in the seventh, using a two-run double by Cole Wagner and two-run homer by Fernando Gonzalez to take control of the contest once more with an 11-10 advantage. Garcia came through with another big hit to cap the rally, driving a two-run double to left to give Mizzou a 9-7 lead. Mann sparked another four-run Tiger rally in the bottom of the fifth, driving a two-run shot over the wall in center to even the score and make the fifth-year senior the first Mizzou player to reach the 20-home run plateau in a season since 1998. Matt Garcia delivered the first of Mizzou's five home runs in the home half of the fourth, but David responded with an RBI double in the fifth to give Georgia a two-run bulge once again. Will David homered to start the rally, before back-to-back run-scoring doubles handed the visitors the 6-4 edge. The Bulldogs answered with three in the fourth to reclaim the lead. Mann added an RBI single to tie it up, and Zeisler's sac fly gave Mizzou a 4-3 advantage. A day after hitting for the cycle, Ross Lovich drove in the first two Tiger runs with a hot shot that caromed off the mound and found its way into shallow left-center, cutting the margin to 3-2. Mizzou responded immediately, engineering the first of its two four-run rallies to claim the lead in the home half of the third.
In order to record their fifth win in six games on their current home stand, the Tigers relied on the long ball once more, belting five home runs to overcome three separate deficits of at least two runs.Īfter Georgia (28-23, 10-16 SEC) scored the game's first run on back-to-back, two-out hits in the second, Charlie Condon extended the Bulldog advantage with a two-run homer in the third. The ninth-inning rally from a 12-11 deficit was not unfamiliar for the Tigers (29-20, 9-17 SEC), who battled back from deficits all day after honoring their 10 graduating seniors during pregame festivities. Mann also inched closer to making a permanent imprint in the Tiger record book, homering in his sixth-consecutive game and drawing to within one round-tripper of Jacob Priday's Mizzou career home run record of 49.
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The walk-off homer marked the third game-clinching hit for Leach this season and gave Mizzou its second-consecutive SEC series win. Moments after Luke Mann drew a leadoff walk, and Hank Zeisler doubled to deep right-center to bring in the tying run, Leach hammered a 1-2 pitch over the wall in right for the fifth Mizzou homer of the day, handing the Tigers their second-straight win over the Bulldogs. In a see-saw battle that featured six lead changes, Dylan Leach's two-run homer in the bottom of the ninth lifted Missouri to a 14-12 walk-off victory over Georgia on Senior Day Saturday afternoon at Taylor Stadium.
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