Arkansas baseball team faced James Madison University in a game where Hagen Smith struggled in the first inning, allowing three runs. Arkansas fought back, tying the game at 3-3 with a home run by Jared Sprague-Lott. The Razorbacks took the lead, scoring two runs in each of the first three innings, eventually winning 6-4. Pitchers Will McEntire and Gage Wood performed well in relief. Arkansas improved to 1-0 for the season.
E3: Arkansas adds a run off an RBI single by Jayson Jones, his first hit of the season. Fisher back out for the 4th with the Hogs leading 3-0.
B1: Arkansas is off-and-running. Hogs lead 2-0 after just 8 pitches from JMU starter Casey Smith. Ben McLaughlin just drove in 2 with an RBI single to center.
FINAL: JMU 7, No. 4 Arkansas 3. Hogs drop their first game of the season after leaving 9 runners on base. Dukes used small-ball to put up four runs in the 7th, and that proved to be the difference. Too many base-running mistakes for the Hogs. Series finale is tomorrow at noon.
M9: A home run from Brendan O'Donnell pushes the JMU lead to 7-3. Top of the order due up for the Razorbacks in the bottom of the 9th.
M8: James Madison had a chance to add to its 6-3 lead, but a really nice play by Wehiwa Aloy at SS ends the inning. Hogs coming to bat with just 6 outs left to avoid a first loss of the season.
E7: Well, Hogs had a chance. Ross Lovich flies out with the bases loaded and two outs. A Wehiwa Aloy double did score Kendall Diggs, but the JMU lead is still 6-3 heading to the 8th.
T6: Danger zone here for Arkansas. Two bunt singles and a walk have the bases loaded for JMU with no outs. Jake Faherty is coming out of the bullpen in relief of Gaeckle.
E6: The bullpens have really settled in here with neither team getting a base runner to 2nd over the past two innings. Hogs 2, Dukes 2 as we head to the 7th. Gaeckle back out for his third inning of work.
E4: Arkansas strands the bases loaded as JMU RP Joe Vogatsky gets Kendall Diggs to fly out to RF. Arkansas and JMU tied 2-2 as we head to the 5th. Highly-touted freshman Gabe Gaeckle coming in for the first appearance of his career.
M3: Mason Molina is dealing with 7 strikeouts through 3 innings. He's pitched around JMU's Fenwick Trimble twice now to good effect. Hogs lead 2-0 heading to the bottom of the third.
E1: Arkansas takes a 2-0 lead with Ben McLaughlin and Jack Wagner each driving in a run. McLaughlin's RBI double was a short fly ball in no-man's land between the JMU 3B and LF. Hogs take advantage of a little bit of luck. Molina back to work with an early lead.
Final: No. 4 Arkansas 6, JMU 4. Hogs survive a wobbly start from Hagen Smith by scoring 2 runs in each of the first 3 innings. Will McEntire (W) and Gage Wood (SV) were terrific out of the pen, while Jared Sprague-Lott and Hudson White both hit a HR. Arkansas baseball, 1-0.
M8: Arkansas gets a runner thrown out at home and fails to extend the lead. 6-7-8 due up for James Madison here in the 9th.
E7: Hogs got their first two batters on base, but they couldn't add to the 6-4 lead. Gage Wood back out for the 8th and nobody warming up in the bullpen.
Final line on Will McEntire: 5 2/3 IP, 3 H, 1 ER, 1 BB, 6 K. Gage Wood came out to finish the top of the seventh and got a strikeout to end the inning. Arkansas leads 6-4. https://t.co/xTdpG5M6PZ
The Razorbacks have scored two runs in each of the first three innings and lead 6-3. Jared Sprague-Lott singled in Jack Wagner, who had walked, then Peyton Holt also scored after JSL got into a rundown. Will McEntire back out for his third inning
Two runs score off a Jared Sprague-Lott single and Arkansas leads 6-3 at the end of the third. Sprague-Lott, who would not have started this game if not for Peyton Stovall's injury, is 2-for-2 with a HR and 2 RBIs.
Jared Sprague-Lott leads off the bottom of the second with a home run to left, and Arkansas ties the game at 3. https://t.co/xTdpG5M6PZ
Jared Sprague-Lott homers in his first Arkansas AB, tying the game 3-3 with no outs in B2
First home run of the Arkansas baseball season belongs to Jared Sprague-Lott. Deep shot to LF and we are tied 3-3.
Hogs strike back for two in the bottom of the first. Ben McLaughlin and Peyton Holt each had RBI singles. JMU leads 3-2, and Hagen Smith's day is done after just 1 inning. Will McEntire is coming out of the bullpen for the T2.
The Razorbacks are on the board after Kendall Diggs' wind-blown double, a walk by Wehiwa Aloy and Ben McLaughlin's first-pitch RBI single. It's 3-1 JMU, B1
Arkansas is on the board after an RBI single by Ben McLaughlin. He drove in Kendall Diggs, who led off with a double to left. JMU 3, Arkansas 1 in the bottom of the first. https://t.co/xTdpG5M6PZ
A rocky first inning for Arkansas LHP Hagen Smith. Only surrenders one hit, but it was a 3-run homer. Walked two batters and hit another. Missing high/arm-side. Did punch out two. 43 pitches to get thru 1. https://t.co/jqonX3RWCB
42-pitch first inning for Hagen Smith. Two walks, a HBP and a homer. Not great! Hogs coming to bat down 3-0.
JMU just took a 3-0 lead over Arkansas after a three-run homer to right center. Hagen Smith had walked the leadoff man and hit the next batter he faced to bring up Fenwick Trimble, who hit the homer 392 feet. https://t.co/xTdpG5M6PZ