No. 13 Tigers ride Casey Mize to win in SEC opener
The reigning National Pitcher of the Week tossed 7.1 innings of one-run ball as No. 13 Auburn defeated No. 6 Texas A&M 4-1 Friday night at Plainsman Park.
The reigning National Pitcher of the Week tossed 7.1 innings of one-run ball as No. 13 Auburn defeated No. 6 Texas A&M 4-1 Friday night at Plainsman Park.
The reigning National Pitcher of the Week tossed 7.1 innings of one-run ball as No. 13 Auburn defeated No. 6 Texas A&M 4-1 Friday night at Plainsman Park.
The Springville, Alabama product had a near perfect showing against the Northeastern Huskies, pitching the first complete no-hitter since Eric Brandon in 2002.
The Tigers remain one of five unbeaten teams in the country (Florida State, Louisville, Oregon State, Texas Tech) and the only one in the SEC.
After already getting off to its best start since 2001 by beginning the season 5-0, Auburn baseball has rolled off another seven straight wins and entered the Top 20 of national polls on Monday.
No. 25 Auburn remained undefeated on the season Saturday afternoon, defeating BYU twice at Plainsman Park to sweep the series.
“I put a good swing on it and thank goodness it carried out. That was an awesome win tonight.”
For its best start since 2001, Auburn baseball has entered the Baseball America Top 25.
In a long 18-inning day at Plainsman Park, Auburn completed a three-game sweep of Bryant in a variety of ways.
“I thought this was our best offensive performance as a lineup, top to bottom."
All-American Casey Mize is scheduled to pitch for the Tigers as Auburn returns to action Friday, Feb. 23.
Auburn moved to 4-0 on the young season, and its pitching staff has only allowed three runs over 36 innings.
The Tigers will take the field again on Tuesday against Georgia State at 4 p.m. CT at Plainsman Park.
Steven Williams homered in his first career at-bat and is the first player to hit a home run in his first at-bat of the season since Jordan Ebert in 2015.
No one around the Auburn baseball program has forgotten the feeling of last season’s agonizing defeat at the hands of Florida State in the Tallahassee Regional of the NCAA Tournament. The Tigers were one strike away from defeating the Seminoles and hosting a Super Regional inside Plainsman Park in Auburn with a chance to advance to the College World Series in Omaha, Nebraska. Florida State would go on to rally and defeat the Tigers in back-to-back games to eliminate Auburn from the NCAA Tournament.
Auburn will face Longwood for the second game of the three-game series Saturday at 1 p.m. CT, with Davis Daniel starting for the Tigers.
Josh Anthony is set to be one of Auburn’s senior leaders for the upcoming 2018 baseball season, but less than eight months before he took control of the hot corner at Plainsman Park, the Tigers’ starting third baseman told the coaching staff he would never play a game for Auburn.
Auburn's ace pitcher added to his collection of preseason accolades Thursday morning, however his team's preseason outlook was given a gut-check by the SEC's coaches.
Auburn baseball will be on national television a total of at least nine times during the 2018 regular season.
In half of his 10 starts, the right-hander registered double-digit strikeouts and kept earned runs off the board.