April 22, 2017
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AUBURN, Ala. ÃÆ'Æ'¢ÃƒÆ'¢'¬" Freshman Davis Daniel pitched five innings, but No. 10 Auburn baseball fell 6-3 to No. 16 Arkansas Saturday at Plainsman Park.
"I thought the sixth inning, nothing defines today more than the sixth inning," Auburn head coach Butch Thompson said. "We brought Andrew Mitchell in and walked the first three batters, and here you go. It didn't wind up being a huge inning if you quantify that by three more runs, but they scored two there that wound up being the game-winner. In the bottom half, they hit three batters, and they were able to get out of it with no runs.
"Davis Daniel competed really well and gave us five innings. He had a little trouble with keeping the ball down and (Jared) Gates got him for the two-run homerun, and that was big as well just to tie the game back up."
Daniel allowed three runs on five hits in five innings. He struck out three. Andrew Mitchell (4-1) allowed two runs and recorded only one out to take the loss.
Auburn (29-12, 11-6) took a 2-0 lead in the first inning as Daniel Robert delivered a sacrifice fly to plate Jonah Todd and Conor Davis singled back up the middle to score Jay Estes.
Todd sliced a RBI single to left to bring home Josh Anthony as the Tigers opened a 3-0 lead in the second inning. Todd and Anthony had two hits.
Arkansas tied the game 3-3 in the third on a sac fly from Luke Bonfield and a 2-run homer by Jared Gates.
The Razorbacks (32-9, 12-5) took a 5-3 lead in the sixth as Dominic Fletcher plated a run on a sac fly and Jax Biggers followed with a RBI single.
Arkansas' Trevor Stephan failed to complete two innings. He allowed three runs in 1.2 innings pitched. Reliever Cannon Chadwick (4-1) pitched 4.1 scoreless innings with no runs allowed. Jake Reindl pitched the final three innings for his first save.
Arkansas added two unearned runs in the ninth after a pair of Auburn errors.
Eric Cole and Bonfield both recorded two hits. Five different players had at least one RBI.
Auburn and Arkansas wrap the series Sunday at 3 pm CT. The game will be televised by SEC Network.