Bullpen Saves Day, Helps #6 Arkansas Secure Series Win

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Behind a dominant bullpen efficiency, No. 6 Arkansas fended off Alabama (21-8, 3-6 SEC), 6-5, in Sunday’s finale at Baum-Walker Stadium to clinch its second SEC weekend sequence win of the season.

The Razorbacks, winners of 9 of their final 11 weekend sequence towards the Crimson Tide, improved to 23-5 general and 6-3 in SEC play with the win. Arkansas additionally prolonged its streak of consecutive video games with a house run to 24 on Sunday.

Alabama jumped out to an early two-run lead after knocking round Arkansas starter Ben Bybee to begin the sport. Bybee didn’t make it out of the primary, recording solely two outs whereas permitting two runs on two hits and three walks.

Luckily, the Razorback bullpen was as much as the duty. Cody Adcock entered in aid of Bybee within the first inning and recorded the ultimate out to maintain Arkansas’ deficit at two.

Jared Wegner’s RBI single adopted by a wild pitch that scored Peyton Stovall from third erased the two-run hole within the backside of the primary, permitting Adcock to inherit a brand-new ballgame. The suitable-hander was prepared for the second, tossing 3 1/3 innings of one-run ball with three strikeouts to maintain Arkansas within the recreation.

Alabama retook the lead within the high of the fifth on a solo house run, however Wegner punched again within the backside half of the body. The Razorback outfielder socked his team-leading twelfth homer of the 12 months, driving in two runs – his forty second and forty third RBI – to place Arkansas up, 4-3. Wegner completed 2-for-4 with three RBI and raised his season slash line to .370/.496/.800.

Working with a one-run lead, Dylan Carter relieved Adcock and fired 3 2/3 innings of one-run ball with a strikeout. Alabama would rating a run on a two-out wild pitch within the high of the sixth to even the sport at 4 apiece, however Carter’s batterymate Parker Rowland got here up clutch within the backside half of the exact same inning.

Rowland’s second hit of the ballgame was a first-pitch single to heart, scoring Harold Coll from third and giving Arkansas a 5-4 lead headed into the seventh. From there, the Razorback bullpen did the remaining.

Carter, who earned the win and improved to 4-0, fired a 1-2-3 high of the seventh and recorded the primary two outs of the eighth earlier than turning the ball over to freshman right-hander Gage Wooden. Wooden retired all 4 he confronted, placing out one in his 1 1/3 innings of labor to lock down his first profession save and safe the Hogs’ 5-4 series-clinching win.

Arkansas, 20-2 at house this season, will host Arkansas State at 6 p.m. Tuesday, April 4, at Baum-Walker Stadium earlier than venturing over to Oxford, Miss., for an SEC weekend sequence towards Ole Miss on April 6-8.

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