With another SEC West Division baseball crown in their sights in Saturday’s regular-season finale, the Arkansas Razorbacks got off to a quick start, then collapsed in a heap in their worst combined pitching and fielding game of the season.
Alabama took advantage of the Hogs’ cascade of walks, hits, hit batters, wild pitches and mental and physical errors to erupt for a pair of six-run innings and assaulted the No. 5 University of Arkansas 18-5 before a crowd of 3,109 at Sewell-Thomas Stadium.
The Razorbacks (38-16, 18-12) lost for the first time in 15 games this season when scoring in the first inning and gave up their highest run total since a 19-8 loss at Texas on June 5, 2005, in the NCAA Austin (Texas) Regional.