Hogs sweep Mississippi Valley State

Hogs sweep Mississippi Valley State

Courtesy of UA Media Relations

Special to The Times

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. For the second-straight day, the 18th-ranked Razorback baseball team put up a double-digit run total, taking the series victory over Mississippi Valley State with a 20-0 win Wednesday afternoon at Baum Stadium.

Six different Razorbacks recorded multi-hit games, while lefty Weston Rogers earned his first victory of the year, going 2.0 innings, allowing only one hit and striking out four.

Six more pitchers saw action on the mound today, totaling 12 pitchers with at least one inning pitched over the previous two games. On Wednesday, the staff combined to allow just four hits without walking any batters. The last time an Arkansas pitching staff didn’t walk a single batter came last season against Tennessee (May 19, 2015) in the team’s first game of the 2015 SEC Tournament.

Sophomore Carson Shaddy hit two home runs off the bench after replacing senior Michael Bernal in the 2-for-4 with five RBI and one run scored. The five RBI is a new career-high for the junior, besting his four RBI in last year’s NCAA Super Regionals against Missouri State Arkansas picked up where it left off from Tuesday scoring twice in each of the first two innings, but didn’t really break the game open until the fourth sixth. Bemal provided the Eagan finished the contest when it plated four. game’s first homer back in the fifth, finishing the game 2-for-3 with a double and two RBI.

Jake Arledge ended with a team-high three hits, fol- lowed by Clark Eagan, Cody Scroggins and Tucker Pennell, who all had two hits in the ball game as well. For Arledge, it was his first multi-hit game of the season.

After an RBI single by Eagan made it 5-0, the Hogs scored two more on a deep sacrifice fly by Luke Bonfield. With runners on second and third, Bonfield’s fly ball was so deep to centerfield that not only was Arledge able to score from third, but Eagan raced home from second with the throw coming nowhere close.