Arkansas splits with Georgia
- Arkansas Razorbacks baseball split a weekend series with #5 Georgia, taking one game but dropping the others. - One bizarre scoreline included a 26-14 game that featured nine home runs and defensive errors. - The weekend’s volatility matters for SEC positioning and suggests Arkansas can swing big offensively, for better or worse. (x.com)
Arkansas took one game from No. 5 Georgia at Baum-Walker Stadium, but Georgia left Fayetteville with the series after wins on April 17 and April 18. (georgiadogs.com 1) (georgiadogs.com 2) The Razorbacks opened the weekend with a 6-3 win on Thursday, April 16, then lost 5-3 on Friday before Georgia clinched the set with a 26-14 blowout on Saturday. Arkansas’ official schedule lists the Hogs at 26-15 overall and 9-9 in Southeastern Conference play after the series. (arkansasrazorbacks.com 1) (arkansasrazorbacks.com 2) (arkansasrazorbacks.com 3) (arkansasrazorbacks.com 4) Saturday’s finale turned into one of the strangest box scores of the season. Georgia hit a school-record nine home runs in the 26-14 win, and ESPN’s box score shows 40 combined runs, 35 combined hits and six Arkansas errors. (georgiadogs.com) (espn.com) Georgia’s power showed up all weekend. In Friday’s 5-3 win, Henry Allen hit a 477-foot home run, and Georgia’s game recap said the Bulldogs reached 104 home runs on the season, the most in Division I at that point. (georgiadogs.com) The standings moved with it. The Southeastern Conference standings posted after the weekend show Georgia at 13-5 in league play and Arkansas at 9-9, leaving the Razorbacks in a large middle group and Georgia alone in first. (secsports.com) That shift came at the halfway mark of Arkansas’ conference schedule. Arkansas’ series preview said the Razorbacks entered the weekend 8-7 in SEC play, and the team’s schedule now shows 18 league games completed with 12 still left before the conference tournament. (arkansasrazorbacks.com 1) (arkansasrazorbacks.com 2) The series also snapped a long home trend for Arkansas. The Razorbacks’ preview said they had won four straight home weekend series against Georgia and had not lost a home series to the Bulldogs since 2008. (arkansasrazorbacks.com) Arkansas showed two versions of itself in three days: a club that beat a top-five team 6-3 on Thursday, and a club that gave up 31 runs over the next two games. The next test comes Tuesday, April 21, when Missouri State visits Fayetteville before Arkansas resumes SEC play at Missouri on April 23. (arkansasrazorbacks.com) (arkansasrazorbacks.com) (arkansasrazorbacks.com) (arkansasrazorbacks.com)
