Mizzou’s game against kansas started out well enough and they were chugging along. Lukas Veinbergs pitched four scoreless innings, allowing only two hits and striking out five.
They scored two in the third off a single by senior Mark Vierling, added on three more in the fourth on a homer by Luke Mann and an RBI by Dalton McNamara (his first), and another two in the fifth on some good baserunning by Brandt Belk and Andrew Keefer. In the seventh, they added two more on hits by Mann and Cameron Swanger. Everything was going great, and the Tigers were up 9-2 heading into the bottom of the seventh.