Auburn baseball's offensive struggles continued in game two's 3-0 loss to No. 23 Mississippi State as the Bulldogs held the Tigers to four hits and kept them from scoring to extend Auburn's scoreless streak to 23 consecutive innings.
Auburn has lost five of their last six SEC series and they only have two SEC series remaining with a road trip to play No. 25 Kentucky next weekend and then No. 8 LSU at home the following weekend.
All of Mississippi State's runs came in the top of the third and that was too much for Keegan Thompson, who picked up his third loss on the mound this season.
The Bulldogs scored their three runs with only two hits in that inning. The first one was an RBI single and the other was an RBI double.
Thompson kept Mississippi State from scoring the rest of his outing before Trey Cochran-Gill pitched two scoreless innings in the eighth and ninth. But Auburn's bats were struggling and they continued to leave runners on base.
In the bottom of the eighth Auburn went down in order with only six pitches.
With two runners on and two outs, Anfernee Grier kept the bottom of the ninth alive by hitting a single to load up the bases for Auburn. But that was all they would put together as the game ended with a groundout to keep all three runners stranded.
Auburn will look to avoid the series sweep during game three at 1 p.m. tomorrow at Plainsman Park.
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