BATON ROUGE (KFSM)- Arkansas baseball had a lot of opportunities to win game-two against No.1 ranked LSU, bu they couldn’t hold off the Tigers losing Saturday night 10-9 after 10-innings.
Arkansas started things off well, in the first inning Hogs’ Jake Arledge singled allowing Carson Shaddy and Luke Bonfield to score. Zach Jackson was the starting pitcher and was shaky at first, allowing back-to-back walks creating a bases loaded jam, but he used his experience as a reliever to work his way out of the first allowing no runs. Jackson would finish the day after four-innings four hits and one run.
The Diamond Hogs’ bats kept the momentum going, Arkansas tallied 15-hits total with Tucker Pennell leading the pack with four-hits for the night. The Hogs brought their lead to to a monsterous 9-1 lead after the offense added five unearned runs in in the fifth.
The pitching woes after Jackson is what sealed the fate for the Hogs. Arkansas’s Isaiah Campbell took over on the mound after Jackson in the fifth, giving up tow runs. After that it went down hill for the Hogs. Reliever Doug Willey gave up three hits and two runs. Blaine Knight then went on to pitch for 3.2 innings and allowed six-hits and five-runs in his outing. LSU scored five runs in the ninth to bring the score to 9-9.
The game went into extras, Alberius came in to replace Knight. At the bottom of the 10th the Tigers were able to score the final run off an error.
The Razorbacks are now 26-21 overall and 7-16 in SEC play.
The series finale will be Sunday at 1:00 p.m. on the SEC Network+.
