FAYETTEVILLE -- The historic first meeting between the University of Arkansas and Arkansas State University was a pitcher's duel between the Red Wolves' Tyler Jeans and three Razorback hurlers for four swift innings on Tuesday night.
Then Cayden Wallace struck the blow that blew the game open.
Wallace hit an opposite-field grand slam to right field in the fifth inning and Christian Franklin followed with an RBI double to propel the No. 1 Razorbacks to an 8-4 victory before a crowd of 7,645 at Baum-Walker Stadium.
Arkansas (37-9), playing its first midweek game in four weeks, used a parade of nine pitchers, many of whom had not been getting much work on recent weekends.