No. 17 Auburn falls in opener at Mississippi State – Auburn University Athletics

STARKVILLE, Miss. – No. 17 Auburn fell in dramatic style within the sequence opener at Mississippi State, falling to the Bulldogs, 7-6, Tuesday night time at Dudy Noble Subject.
 
Main 6-5 heading to the underside of the ninth, Mississippi State plated a pair of runs on a wild pitch and bases-loaded stroll to finish the sport.
 
“We have performed this sport again and again and have discovered a approach, simply not tonight,” head coach Butch Thompson stated. “It wasn’t completely clear, however we hung in there.
 
“If we needed to do it once more, there’s not rather a lot I might like to vary,” Thompson added.
 
Auburn (23-11, 7-6 SEC) took a 5-3 lead with three runs within the sixth, however Mississippi State (20-15, 5-8 SEC) tied the sport with a pair of solo homers within the seventh.
 
The Tigers once more took a lead on a solo homer from Cole Foster within the eighth, however the Bulldogs had been in a position to benefit from Auburn’s miscues within the ninth inning to say the win.
 
“It is the primary sport of the sequence, and we have now to discover a method to win a ballgame tomorrow,” Thompson stated.
 
Mississippi State struck first with a pair of runs within the backside of the primary. The primary 4 batters reached on two walks and two singles to attain the primary run. Nonetheless, beginning pitcher Hayden Mullins did a very good job to attenuate the harm to 2, retiring the following six batters he confronted with three strikeouts throughout the span.
 
Auburn bought on the scoreboard on a one-out solo homer from Nate LaRue within the third. The lengthy ball was LaRue’s third of the season, leaving the yard at 106 miles per hour off the bat and touring 423 ft.
 
Mississippi State bought the run again after back-to-back walks began the third. The Tigers bought a double play to erase one of many lead runners, however a two-out single again up the center made it a 3-1 sport by means of three.
 
Auburn threatened with two on and one out within the third, however back-to-back groundouts ended the menace. Nonetheless, the Tigers cashed in on a leadoff double from Foster within the fifth and reduce the deficit to at least one.
 
Carson Skipper in reduction of Mullins to begin the fifth and labored a 1-2-3 body with three groundouts.
 
The Tigers took the momentum from the mound to the plate, capitalizing on a one-out error to tie the sport on a bases loaded stroll earlier than taking the lead on a two-strike, two-out single from Blake Rambusch.
 
After Skipper had retired the primary six batters he confronted, the Bulldogs reduce the result in one on a solo homer to begin the underside of the seventh and tied it on one other solo shot two batters later. Mississippi State had been held to 2 hits for the reason that first inning.
 
Auburn answered proper again with Foster’s aforementioned solo homer within the eighth, and Blake Burkhalter retired the Bulldogs so as with a pair of strikeouts within the dwelling half.
 
After the Tigers left a pair stranded within the prime of the ninth, Mississippi State began the underside of the body with a stroll. Burkhalter bought a possible double play ball, however a mishandling of the bottom ball allowed each baserunner to be protected. A sacrifice bunt moved each into scoring place, and an intentional stroll loaded the bases earlier than the tying run scored on a wild pitch. One other intentional stroll re-loaded the bases, and a stroll ended the sport.
 
Recreation two between the Tigers and Bulldogs is scheduled for Friday at 6 p.m. CT on SEC Community+.