Offense highlights baseball road trip

Monday, April 2, 2007

COLUMBIA, Mo. — Erik Morrison offered his philosophical approach to hitting after Friday’s game. The junior shortstop’s message was simple: “Sometimes you run into one. Sometimes you don’t.”

Despite dropping the baseball chapter of the Border Showdown to Missouri two games to one, Kansas’ bats ran into almost everything Missouri’s pitchers offered up.

Friday night, Kansas trailed Missouri 5-4 entering the ninth inning. For the Jayhawks from the beginning of the season, a loss would have been set in stone.

The Jayhawks who came out in Columbia, though, turned the deficit into an advantage with back-to-back home runs by Morrison and junior second baseman Ryne Price.

The back-to-back homers carried Kansas to a 7-5 victory; its first ninth-inning comeback of the season.

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This weekend did wonders for us confidence-wise, knowing that we’re in every game. We had a lot of hitters welcoming the challenge of hitting in the top of the ninth with two outs and two strikes. A couple weeks ago, we might have backed away from that, but to see guys are accepting that challenge is definitely a confidence booster for us all.

-Kyle Murphy, senior center fielder

“This weekend did wonders for us confidence-wise, knowing that we’re in every game” senior center fielder Kyle Murphy said. “We had a lot of hitters welcoming the challenge of hitting in the top of the ninth with two outs and two strikes. A couple weeks ago, we might have backed away from that, but to see guys are accepting that challenge is definitely a confidence booster for us all.”

Saturday nearly produced a second straight ninth-inning comeback. Missouri posted eight runs in the first six innings, but Kansas hacked away at the Tigers’ lead.

The Jayhawks failed to rally for the victory, falling both Saturday and Sunday to the Tigers.

Despite losing its third straight Big 12 series, Kansas tallied 23 runs in the series, one of the best offensive showings of the season.

Kansan senior sportswriter Shawn Shroyer can be contacted at sshroyer@kansan.com.

— Edited by Mark Vierthaler

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