Tigers 20, Gophers 5

■ Johnny Wholestaff racked up a 10th appearance for 2009, recording an 8th win (against 2 losses). JW's stats to date: 8-2, 2.83 ERA, 89 IP, 79 H, 36 R, 28 ER, 26 BB, 65 SO. Wednesday's game was typical for Wholestaff in a couple of ways:

• JW gave up only 1 walk in 9 innings. That is a season best, but stinginess with the BBs has been a hallmark all year long. The most walks given up by JW was 7, in the loss to Oklahoma. JW averages 2.6 BB per game.

• Run support: Johnny Wholestaff has gotten phenomenal run support, considering the offensive woes of the Tigers. Yesterday's 20 was a season high for the team, obviously. But even before that rout inflated JW's run support numbers, the Tigers had averaged 8 runs per game for JW, as opposed to the team's 4.7 rpg in the other 27 games. Of course, 7 of JW's 10 games have been mid-week games, which may play a part in that discrepancy.

■ Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune: Wildness dooms U in baseball blowout:

Gophers pitchers walked 14 batters and hit five more, leading to a 20-5 baseball
loss Wednesday to Missouri in Columbia.

■ Columbia Missourian: After lineup change, Missouri scores 20 runs:

Jamieson judges his hitters on quality at-bats so when someone who doesn't have an everyday spot in the lineup struggles at the plate, they're put on the bench in favor of the new player.

"It used to be I'd stick the players with the highest on-base percentage at the top of the lineup, and I'd put guys who drove them in behind them," Jamieson said. "This season, we've tried a whole lot of things and nothing has worked."

■ And comments from Tigerboard.com:

• TigerNation25: Not only did we score 20 . . . but it was the guys we have all been waiting for: Steve Gray 3 hits 4rbi (and a grand slam called foul on a bs call); Kyle Mach 2 hits 4rbi; Aaron Senne 2 hits 3runs; Trevor 2 hits 4rbi. Thats what I'm talkin about!