Missouri baseball’s 2025 season ends with loss to Alabama in SEC Tournament

Its over.No.

16-seeded Missouri baseballs 2025 season ended Tuesday with a 4-1 loss to No.

9-seed Alabama in the first round of the SEC Baseball Tournament in Hoover, Alabama.It ends a campaign that saw the Tigers tie a 70-year-old SEC-record losing streak and drop more conference games than any team since the conference went to a 30-game schedule.Dual-sport quarterback and ace Sam Horn (4.22 ERA, 0-1) started for Mizzou for the fifth time this season and delivered three scoreless innings.

Horn, who recently returned to play after undergoing Tommy John surgery in 2024, threw 57 pitches over those three innings with five walks, two hits and two strikeouts.Horn was replaced by local lefty Wil Libbert, shortly after Mizzou (16-39) took the lead on a solo shot from Mateo Serna in the top of the fourth.Libbert, a redshirt freshman and Blair Oaks High product, gave up two earned runs in the bottom of the fourth on back-to-back RBI-singles from shortstop Justin Lebron and left fielder Kade Snell, giving Alabama the lead for good.

The Crimson Tide (41-15) added to their lead on an RBI flyout from first baseman Will Hodo in the seventh, and catcher Brady Neal hit a solo home run in the bottom of the eighth to make it a three-run deficit for Mizzou with three outs to work with.The Tigers loaded the bases in the ninth as designated hitter Brock Daniels singled, shortstop Jackson Lovich was hit by a pitch and right fielder Pierre Seals reached on a fielders choice that resulted in an Alabama error.

First baseman Cayden Nicolettos line drive heading for right field drew an athletic catch by Hodo, and MU was down to its final out.

Serna flew out to left field on a 2-2 pitch to end the contest.Mizzou left 12 runners on base throughout the game.

Libbert, who took the loss to end the season 3-4 with a 6.04 ERA, gave up six hits, two walks and a wild pitch and had two strikeouts.Alabama starter Tyler Fay (1-2) went six full innings, giving up five hits, a walk and striking out six.

Mizzou baseball sets some unfortunate recordsThe Tigers finished the regular season 3-27 in SEC play.

No SEC team since the conference moved to a 30-game slate in 1996 had won fewer than five games before Mizzou did it this spring.The previous worst seasons belonged to Vandy (5-24, 2000), Georgia (5-23, 2010), and Alabama (5-24-1, 2017).

When the SEC played either 24 or 27 games at varying times between 1986-95, the worst records in that era were from Tennessee (4-23, 1989) and Alabama (4-22, 1994).The last time an SEC team won three or fewer games in conference play was Georgia in 1974.

The Bulldogs went 3-13 that season, meaning they played 14 fewer games than Mizzou did this year.According to Tribune research, Missouri tied the longest conference losing streak in SEC history this year by losing 24 straight games.

That tied a record set by Kentucky between 1955-57.Missouri avoided breaking the record and losing 25 straight by beating Texas A&M on May 9 in its series-opener in College Station, Texas.

The Tigers went on to sweep the Aggies, which accounts for all of their wins in SEC play this season.More: Missouri baseball's regular season ends with worst SEC record in 30-game eraMore: Three Missouri softball players enter transfer portal, including star pitcherThe Tigers second season under head coach Kerrick Jackson is now over.

Jackson is 39-71 as MUs head coach since being hired to replace Steve Bieser after the 2023 campaign.

Jacksons contract is signed through the 2028 season, and it appears unlikely that the Tigers will make a change this offseason.I think a lot of Kerrick in terms of not only (as a) coach, but person, Missouri athletic director Laird Veatch said during press availability April 29.

He did take over a difficult situation in many respects, and he'll keep after it.

He'll keep doing it the right way, and it's not an overnight thing, so we'll just keep supporting him.

And you look at what happened with men's basketball.

Last year, we had a similar kind of struggle, and then flipped it around this year and made a big step.

And, you know, we need to continue to support our coach to get to that point.Mizzou is last in the SEC for team ERA at 9.28 as a number of injuries hit the bullpen over the course of the season.

The next worse team ERA in the conference was South Carolina at 6.31.

Former head coach Tim Jamieson is Mizzous pitching coach.

Entering the SEC Tournament, the Tigers were second-last for team batting average at .265, ahead of just Texas A&M.

Mizzou had scored the fewest runs in the conference, had the worst slugging and on-base percentages and had hit the tied-fewest home runs.This article originally appeared on Columbia Daily Tribune: Missouri baseballs season ends with loss to Alabama in SEC Tournament.

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