In-state opponent Samford defeated Auburn 6-0 Tuesday, March 10 at Plainsman Park.
It was all Samford (5-8) as the Tigers committed six errors, gave up three unearned runs and couldn’t get the bats going against Bulldog’s pitcher Parker Curry.
Curry picked up the win after the junior gave up only five hits, allowed zero runs, no walks and recorded seven strikeouts through eight innings.
“We looked at the pitch count,” said head coach Sunny Golloway. “They had 41 pitches thrown through five complete innings. I know for a fact that is the least amount of pitches against a program I have ever had the fortune to be in charge of. That can’t happen. Our approach was not good tonight.”
Auburn (13-4) got into trouble early.
The Tigers’ starting pitcher Kevin Davis, who picked up the loss after he gave up one hit, three earned runs, four strikeouts and four walks, couldn’t find the strike zone in the first inning. The sophomore walked the bases loaded and then walked in a Bulldog run to put Samford on the board early.
Up by one, the Bulldogs hit a chopper that went under shortstop Cody Nulph’s glove to bring in another run and make it 2-0 through the first.
Auburn couldn’t stop Samford for the remainder of the evening.
In the top of the third inning, Samford scored again off a groundball hit by junior Alex Lee bringing sophomore Heath Quinn to the plate for the Bulldogs third run.
Auburn continued to breakdown in the fifth. The Tigers continued to make mistakes as Samford doubled their lead by scoring three runs on two hits and three Auburn errors to make it 6-0.
Samford picked up its final run in the top of the ninth. Sophomore Hunter Swilling singled to right field to score sophomore T.J. Dixon.
“To be honest with you, it’s not something that we are glad happened, but its something we are going to use,” Golloway said. “It’s going to make it a very teachable moment for us. We’ve been fortunate in some tight ball games. We’ve gotten off to a good start and right there we got hit right in the mouth. I think it’s a good time for us to get hit in the mouth because I think that we have young men of character, and they’re going to come out and be ready to hit right back.”
The Tigers open up conference play against Texas A&M Friday, March 13, in College Station, Texas at 6 p.m.
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