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Baseball: UK drops series opener to Mizzou, 5-4 By Ryan Hoots Sports Director, UntdWeStnd.com Lexington, KY - Kentucky didn't get beat Friday night. Kentucky handed one away to drop to .500 in the Southeastern Conference. That's the cleanest way to say it after a 5-4 loss to Missouri at Kentucky Proud Park. No fluff. No dressing it up. This one was sitting there, wide open, begging to be taken. Kentucky never took it up on the offer. This is where it starts to feel a little uneasy. Not panic. Not doom. Just that feeling creeping in that something isn't quite right. Bullpen questions are starting to hold more water, and questions about the team's ability to hit are ringing louder. Fifteen baserunners. Six hits and six walks. Three hit by pitches. Missouri even chipped in three errors to help out the cause. That is more than enough traffic to win a conference game at home. Four runs. That's it. Thirteen runners left out there. Standing. Watching. Waiting on a hit that never came. Twelve strikeouts mixed in there too, which makes it worse in my opinion. Too many empty at bats in spots where the game was begging for one solid swing. Not a miracle. Not a three run big blue bomb. Just a hitter stepping in and doing his job at the dish. Never happened. This part is getting harder to ignore...and that is that Kentucky is creating chances. Plenty of them. Cashing them in is another story right now. Carson Hansen did his part. Two hits, scored twice. Jayce Tharnish came through to tie it in the sixth while also moving into fourth on the leaderboard of stolen bases in a season in the Nick Mingione era (the record is 26, feels breakable with Tharnish at 22). Luke Lawrence drove one in. Tagger Tyson scratched another across early. Pieces all over the place. No knockout punch. The game sat at 4-4 after the sixth and just... stayed there. Felt like Kentucky was waiting for something to happen instead of making it happen. That's a dangerous way to live in this league. Missouri didn't wait. Ninth inning. Tie game. One swing, one RBI single from Donovan Jordan, and suddenly Kentucky is chasing instead of celebrating. That's how thin the margin is. Let a team hang around long enough, they'll take it from you. Another piece of this that won't go away. The bullpen. Jaxon Jelkin was more than good enough to win. Seven innings. Ten strikeouts. One walk. Three earned runs. That stuff plays all day. That's a Friday night guy you can trust. Kentucky has an ace. No debate there. Honestly, the game should've been won with that outing. Once the ball goes to the bullpen, that feeling changes. Not to chaos, not a meltdown, just... uneasy. That edge where every pitch feels like it matters a little too much. Jackson Soucie gave up the run in the ninth. That's the difference. One run, one inning, one moment where Kentucky needed a zero and didn't get it. That's twice the issue in one night. Missed chances at the plate. One missed moment on the mound. That combination will beat you in this league every time. Kentucky grabbed a 1-0 lead in the second. Missouri answered with three in the third, added another in the fourth. Kentucky clawed back with two in the fourth, tied it in the sixth. That should've been the point where control takes over. Instead, it drifted. Sat there and waited... Missouri didn't. No reason to act like the season is slipping away or is even in shambles. The overall record is still strong. Pieces are still there to do something special. Jelkin at the front gives you a real shot every weekend. Still... this is how concerns start. Not loud. Not dramatic. Just stacking up quietly. Too many runners left on base. Too many at bats that come up empty when they matter most. A bullpen that still feels like a question right now instead of an answer. Friday night wasn't some fluke. It felt like a snapshot of the season as of late. Kentucky didn't get beat. They left the win sitting out there... and walked off without it. The Bat Cats will return to action Saturday at 12 pm, CT in an attempt to even the series. This story was posted on 2026-04-05 09:08:33
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