There was once reason to hope that this year’s Missouri Tigers baseball team would be different from last year’s team that finished 26-30 and 9-20 in the Southeastern Conference. After all, a 20 game winning streak to open the season 20-1 tends to breed optimism and inspire confidence.
Unfortunately for the Tigers, those days of optimism appear to be long gone.
The Vanderbilt Commodores took two of three games from Missouri in Nashville, Tennessee this weekend, beating the Tigers 5-2 on Friday and 14-5 on Sunday.
In a series that in many ways mirrored Missouri’s SEC season, the Tigers’ offense once again failed to find consistency against Vanderbilt’s pitching.