It shouldn’t have been this exciting, you guys. At least not in the way I wanted, anyway. The Mizzou Softball home opener, occurring on an unseasonably cold, gloomy and wet early-March afternoon, had all the makings of a pretty unfairly matched and unexciting game at first. I thought to myself, this is just what you want as a final tune-up before SEC play starts. Maybe bring in some pinch hitters who don’t get to play a ton, give your relievers some innings, etc. So when Mizzou scored three runs in the bottom of the first on Chantice Phillips’ 3-run BOMB to center — seriously, that thing FLEW — to put the Tigers out in front, and then when they tacked on two more in the second and fourth innings with some savvy baserunning to make it 5-0, I thought to myself, “Ok, this is going to be over early.
RECAP: Mizzou wins surprisingly exciting game against Kansas City
