While the average baseball game takes about three hours to complete, Thursday’s matchup between the Tigers and the Volunteers — a 3-2 Mizzou win in 12 innings — took nearly four and a half.
It was only natural, then, that the teams balanced those times out Friday with a game that was through seven innings in just an hour and 45 minutes.
In a matchup that featured outstanding pitching performances from both squads’ starters, Tennessee (29-26, 12-17 SEC) took two of the few bad pitches from Michael Plassmeyer over the wall in left field and grabbed a 2-1 win over Missouri (33-21, 11-18 SEC), tying the series at one game apiece.