"Like I told the guys, you have to recognize this is about picking each other up," Hill said. "It's about hitters picking up pitchers, pitchers picking up hitters and I thought we really lost our swagger and our body language after (Missouri) scored the five (in the top of the fourth)."
Hill continued that his team simply let the wind be taken out of its sails perhaps a bit too easily.
"We came back and (Dellesega) hit the home run to tie it up and its 0-0, honestly," Hill said. "To me, we had lost, just lost our swagger. We were living in the fact that they came back and tied us up. We lost the focus and offensively, I think we should have scored more runs and picked up our pitchers, but we didn't do that today because I think we put too much stock in the fact they came back and tied us after they had a bad start. That's why you play this game all the way through-we lost our emotional edge."
■ Missouri takes series with Saturday win (WIBW.com)
Missouri’s Greg Folgia homered twice and drove in five runs as the Tigers downed Kansas State, 11-6, Saturday afternoon at Tointon Family Stadium. With the loss, the Wildcats fell to 28-11 overall and 7-7 in Big 12 play. Missouri, which took the series with the win, improved to 21-19 overall and 8-9 in conference action.■ MU's RPI at Boyd's World is now 38th in the country after yesterday's 2nd winn against nationally ranked KSU.
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