A Walk-Off and A Gut-Punch

Thursday, May 27

Jackson, Tenn.

6 p.m.

Murray State

31-23

Morehead State

24-22

Morehead State

Murray State

Photo by: Dave Winder-Murray State Athletics

5/28/2021 5:55:00 PM | Baseball

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The Racers walk-off the opening game against Morehead State before falling to Southeast Missouri, 6-5

Following the postponement of their opening game the previous day, the Murray State Racers (32-25, 18-12 OVC) picked up the second day of play in the 10th inning against the Morehead State Eagles (24-22, 13-11 OVC) walking the game off in the thirteenth inning before falling in late innings to the Southeast Missouri Redhawks (30-19, 17-10 OVC).

Game One – Murray State 8, Morehead State 7 (13 inn.)
Day one recap: https://bit.ly/34w8ZR3

The game resumed in the tenth inning and Morehead State broke deadlock first, plating one run on three hits in the twelfth inning.

The Racers were down to their final out when Brock Anderson stepped to the plate. He had been struggling, going 0-for-5 with 4 strikeouts but the Eagles pitching staff couldn't keep the OVC's home run champion down any longer as he jumped on the first pitch he saw for a no-doubter home run to right field.

In the thirteen, Trey Woosley hit a two-out single to left to give the Racers a base runner. Then all mayhem broke loss. David Hudleson bunted and the Eagles pitcher, John Bakke, who had struck out 12 in 4.2 innings, threw it away to the right field wall. Woosley tripped rounding third but got up and dove for home plate to win it for Murray State, 8-7.

Quinton Kujawa worked three innings, including two three-up three-down frames.

Jake Jones earned the win, improving his record to 7-2. He struck out two of the three batters faced.

ARE YOU KIDDING ME!!! 🤯🤯🤯

The OVC Home Run 👑 launches his 18th homer of the season to tie the game at 7️⃣ in the 12th! pic.twitter.com/ISM8K5XiuG
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BALLGAME‼️ pic.twitter.com/wvluHQqgPK
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David Hudleson & Trey Woosley recount the winning play. pic.twitter.com/h26VNrrdvw
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Game Two – Southeast Missouri 6, Murray State 5
Murray State carried its momentum over into the second game, bringing the energy.

Jordan Cozart hit his third home run of the tournament and 18th overall to give the Racers a 2–1 advantage in the fourth.

Two innings later, Murray State added two more when Alex Crump hit his first career triple to drive in Ryan Perkins and Brennan McCullough followed with a single up the middle to bring home Crump.

In the seventh, the Racers extended their lead to 5-2 when Perkins scored on a bases loaded wild pitch.

Southeast Missouri gave Murray State a major gut-punch in the eighth. After getting the first two outs, back-to-back singles put runners on for the Redhawks. The Redhawks, who had been 1-for-13 with runners in scoring position, finally broke through with a three-run home run that kept carrying in the wind over the right field wall. A catcher's interference call kept the inning going and eventually came around to score what proved to be the winning run.

Sam Gardner got the start, going 5.0 innings, allowing two runs on seven hits and struck out five.

Jake Jones came in for his second appearance of the day, throwing 1+ innings, striking out two.

Alec Whaley became the Racers All-Time Appearance leader when he came on in the seventh inning for his 81^st career outing.

Jack Wenninger took the loss, surrendering an unearned run in the eighth.

T4 | MUR 2, SEMO 1

🔥🔥THIS GUY IS ON FIRE! 🔥🔥

Jordan Cozart hits his 3⃣rd HR of the OVC tourney to give the Racers a 2-1 lead! pic.twitter.com/Lyzjg9qe4S
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T6 | MUR 3, SEMO 1

Good time for Alex Crump's first career triple! He hits it to the deepest part of the park to drive in Ryan Perkins pic.twitter.com/BxZTeQd0xQ
— Murray State Baseball (@RacersBaseball) May 28, 2021