Baseball to Host In-State Matchup vs. Missouri State Tuesday

Tuesday, April 7

Columbia, Mo.

6 P.M.

Missouri

Missouri State

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Baseball to Host In-State Matchup vs. Missouri State Tuesday

4/6/2026 5:09:00 PM | Baseball

COLUMBIA, Mo. – Mizzou Baseball is back at home Tuesday evening, hosting in-state rival Missouri State at Taylor Stadium at 6 p.m. CT on SEC Network+. The game marks the first of a four-game homestand for the Tigers this week as they will host Southeastern Conference foe South Carolina, Thursday-Saturday at Taylor Stadium.

The Tigers (19-14, 3-9 SEC) won their first road series over a ranked opponent since 2021 over the weekend, going to Lexington and taking an SEC series from 24^th-ranked Kentucky. Mizzou won 5-4 on Friday night before the Wildcats evened the series on Saturday. The Tigers fought back for a 5-2 victory on Sunday afternoon as SEC Co-Freshman of the Week Blaize Ward had a 3-for-3 day and got on base all five times he came to the plate, driving in a pair of runs to cap off a week in which he hit a scorching .615 (8-for-13).

Mizzou will aim to carry the momentum into its midweek slate versus Mo State (21-9, 9-3 CUSA), winners of four-straight games and coming off a weekend sweep of Sam Houston after taking down No. 17 Arkansas in last week's midweek game.

All Mizzou baseball games are available via audio stream on The Varsity Network app by Learfield with longtime play-by-play voice Tex Little on the call alongside Matt Michaels providing color.

Expected Pitching Matchup vs. Missouri State

Tuesday, April 7 (6 P.M. CT)
- Mizzou – LHP Jackson Sobel (1-1, 9.95 ERA, 4 K, 8 BB)
- Missouri State – LHP Tyler Charlton (1-2, 4.76 ERA, 29 K, 9 BB)

SCHEDULE

Mizzou vs. Missouri State, Tuesday, April 7 @ 6 P.M. CT
- Taylor Stadium | Columbia, Mo. | LIVE STATS | TV

SCOUTING THE BEARS

Through 30 games, Missouri State is 21-9 overall and 9-3 within Conference USA. The Bears are first-year members to the league after making a move from the MVC.
As a unit, the Bears are slashing .307/.419/.576 with 66 home runs, three triples and 72 doubles.
They have outscored opponents 272-185 on the season.
On the pitching side, the Bears hold a 5.56 team ERA over 254.0 innings with 275 strikeouts to 141 walks.
The Bears are led offensively by Logan Fyffe (.378 AVG, 5 HR, 9 2B, 27 RBI), Bryce Cermenelli (.367 AVG, 16 RBI), Curry Sutherland (.302 AVG, 9 HR, 33 RBI) and Carter Bergman (.293 AVG, 11 HR, 24 RBI).
Tuesday's starter LHP Tyler Charlton (1-2) has pitched to a 4.76 ERA this season over 22.2 innings, striking out 29 and walking just nine.

SERIES HISTORY vs. MISSOURI STATE

Tuesday's game will mark the 68th all-time meeting between the two programs, with Mizzou leading the series, 35-32. The Tigers have won seven of the last 10 matchups in the series overall.
In Columbia, the Tigers hold a 21-14 advantage.

RANKED ROAD SERIES WIN

After taking down No. 24 Kentucky over the weekend, the Tigers earned their first road series win over a ranked opponent since 2021 at No. 3 Mississippi State.
The series win also marked the first SEC series win of the season for the Tigers as they matched their conference win total from last season through the first dozen games of this year's conference slate.
The Tigers handed the Wildcats just their second and third home losses of the season, respectively, as Kentucky slipped to an impressive 15-3 at Kentucky Proud Park after Sunday's defeat.

BLAIZE-ING FRESHMAN

Freshman infielder Blaize Ward has been on a tear as of late, earning SEC Co-Freshman of the Week honors after hitting .615 last week and helping the Tigers win the series at No. 24 Kentucky.
He hit .667 in the series at Kentucky with a pair of multi-hit games, including a 3-for-3 effort in Sunday's series-clinching win in which he got on base all five times he came to the plate.
In SEC play, Ward has led the Tigers with a .500 batting average (15-for-30) to go along with seven RBI and four runs scored, collecting five multi-hit games in nine league games.
The Maumelle, Arkansas, native has knocked multiple hits in five of his last six games overall.
For the season, Ward leads the squad with a .366 average (26-for-71) with five doubles, a triple, 19 RBI and 15 runs scored, getting on base at a team-leading .477 clip.

OFFENSE CONTINUES TO ROAR

The Tigers are top 25 nationally and tied with Kentucky for the SEC lead in triples (10).
In addition, MU is No. 17 nationally in HBP (67), No. 45 in runs (250), No. 59 in hits (311) No. 58 in on-base percentage (.407) and No. 73 in batting average (.290).
With the Tigers' 15-1 victory over UAPB on Feb. 24, they became the fastest team in program history to reach 100 runs (8 Games).
Mizzou reached the 150-run milestone in game 14, also becoming the fastest team in program history to that mark.
The Tigers' run-rule victory over UAPB on Feb. 24 marked the first time Mizzou has recorded four-straight run-rule wins in the 56-game regular season era (1997).
MU earned its fifth run-rule victory of the season on Sunday (March 8) in a 10-0 win over UIC.

MAKING STRIDES ON THE MOUND

Under first-year pitching coach Drew Dickinson, the Tigers have made impressive strides on the mound through the first 33 games of the campaign.
As of April 6, the Tigers rank 33rd nationally in hits allowed per nine innings (7.86) and 50th in strikeouts per nine innings (9.7).
Over 147.1 innings of work, the starting rotation has combined for a 9-8 record, a 5.01 ERA, 156 strikeouts to 74 walks and opponents are batting just .228 against the unit.
The bullpen has worked 131.0 innings while pitching to a 5.84 ERA with 145 strikeouts with opponents hitting .247 off the unit.
The Mizzou bullpen was dominant in the series win at No. 24 Kentucky, tossing 13.2 innings and allowing just one earned run (two total), for an ERA of 0.66 for the weekend.

CONSECUTIVE SHUTOUTS FOR FIRST TIME SINCE 2017

The Tigers recorded consecutive shutouts for the first time since May 18-19, 2017, after defeating UIC 7-0 and 10-0, respectively, March 7 and 8.
Those shutouts accounted for 16 innings within a 22-inning stretch of consecutive scoreless frames by Tiger pitchers.

WAITER, BRING ME WOITA

South Carolina transfer Jase Woita has made an immediate impact in the Mizzou lineup this season after hitting .300 with six home runs in 45 games for the Gamecocks in 2025.
The physical, left-handed slugger is off to a hot start with the Tigers, batting .324 with an OPS of .989 thanks to a team-leading six home runs in 30 games played.
He's driven in 34 runs to lead the squad and rank 13th in the SEC in that department.
He drove in a career-high eight runs in the record-breaking 34-3 win over Mount Saint Mary's on Feb. 15 - one shy of the program record for RBI (9) in a game.
Woita saw his 12-game hitting streak come to an end vs. No. 6 Auburn but extended his on-base streak to 28 games after reaching safely all three games in the series win at No. 24 Kentucky.

LIGHTING UP THE SCOREBOARD

The Tigers have scored 250 runs through 33 games (7.6 per game) to rank 45^th nationally and seventh within the league.

PASS THE TORCH

The Tigers have hit consecutive home runs on three occasions this season:
- Sam Parker / Chris Patterson (Feb. 15 vs. Mount St. Mary's, 8^th inning)
- Eric Maisonet / Isaiah Frost (March 5 vs. UIC, 7^th inning)
- Kaden Peer / Cameron Benson / Pierre Seals (March 8 vs. UIC, 3^rdinning)
In the series finale vs. UIC on March 8, the entire starting outfield (Peer, Benson, Seals) went back-to-back-to-back in a matter of five pitches – all solo shots.
It marked the second time of Benson's career being a part of back-to-back-to-back home runs, the first coming April 11, 2023, as a member of the Kerrick Jackson-coached Memphis Tigers in an 11-9 win at Ole Miss.

GOING STREAKING!

Mizzou had a 13-game winning streak snapped by No. 6 Auburn on March 13 – its longest since rattling off 20-straight victories in 2017.
South Carolina grad transfer Jase Woita is riding a 28-game on-base streak into Tuesday's matchup – the longest by a Tiger this season.
Center fielder Kaden Peer has been on base in all 21 games since returning from injury.
Freshman Blaize Ward has been on base in 14-straight games and has hit safely in six straight contests. Overall, he has a hit in 12 of his last 13 games.

ON LIKE DONKEY KONG

Mizzou ranks 58th nationally with a .407 on-base percentage.
The Tigers rank 59th nationally in hits (311) and 73rd in batting average (.290).
In addition, MU ranks No. 17 in the country and third in the SEC with 67 HBP.

WEAR IT!

The Tigers are averaging 2.03 HBP per game to rank 17th nationally, being plunked 67 times so far this season.
Winthrop leads the nation with 85 HBP while Kentucky leads the league with 84.
Mizzou has been hit four-plus times on six occasions and has been hit at least twice 16 times.
The Tigers were plunked a season-high seven times on Feb. 15 vs. Mount St. Mary's

KEEP STACKING BRICKS

The Tigers and head coach Kerrick Jackson have developed a new winning ritual: stacking bricks.
After each win, the Tigers add a brick to the wall, each of them resting on three black cinder blocks at the base of the wall that each display one of the team's three core values: accountability, respect and connection.
The bricks themselves have a color-code black are non-conference victories, gold are SEC victories and tiger-striped brick signifies a series-clinching victory.

DEFEND THE TURF

Mizzou is in its first season of a brand-new turf surface at Taylor Stadium, and the Tigers are off to a 10-7 start on the new digs.
With their 10-0 shutout of UIC on March 8, the Tigers clinched having more home wins this season than they had all of last season, going 8-20 at Taylor Stadium in 2025.

NON-CON DOMINANCE

After concluding the 2025 season with a 13-11 record against non-conference opponents, the Tigers are off to a 16-5 start in 2026.
Last year's Tigers clinched a winning non-con season slate for the 11th time in the last 12 seasons; only MU's 2021 squad (7-14) failed to reach the .500 mark vs. non-SEC foes over that span.
Over the last 13 seasons, the Tigers' dominance has been equally impressive, with MU winning 115 more non-conference games than it has lost (208-93).

HISTORIC OFFENSIVE OUTPUT

Mizzou baseball used a record-setting performance from its offense in Sunday's series finale to earn a dominant 34-3 victory over Mount St. Mary's on Feb. 15.
Missouri's 34 runs were its second most in a single game in program history and the most since a 35-run outing in 1902. As of April 6, 34 runs is still the most scored by any team against a DI opponent this season.
As a team, the Tigers had a program-best 32 RBI, passing the previous record of 28 against Texas on April 19, 2008.
In addition, the Tigers' 26 hits matched a program record that had been done just twice (2005 vs. Navy; 2008 vs. Texas).
Lead-off hitter Tyler Macon went 6-for-6 (eight RBI) to become the third Tiger in program history with a six-hit performance while Jase Woita, batting second, went 4-for-7 with a home run and eight RBI. The top two spots in the Tigers' lineup combined to go 10-for-13 with 16 RBI and seven runs scored, while both Macon and Woita came up one RBI short of tying the school record (nine).
Left fielder Isaiah Frost was overshadowed while still having a huge day at the plate, going 3-for-4 with a double and five RBI.
Four Tigers scored four runs apiece: Macon, Chris Patterson, Jamal George and Gehrig Goldbeck.
Overall, 11 Tigers recorded hits while 13 players scored a run.

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