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No. 2 Arkansas (31-5, 12-3 SEC) staged a late comeback to erase a 7-0 deficit against the Texas Tech Red Raiders (26-12, 9-9 Big 12) on Tuesday night in Baum-Walker Stadium, 9-8. The Razorbacks extend their home winning streak to 24 games while marking their biggest come-from-behind win since March 1, 2017, against the Louisiana Tech Bulldogs where they trailed, 10-1, before scoring 12 unanswered runs to come out victorious, 13-10.

Texas Tech put up six runs on the board early in the top of the second inning and tallied another in the top of the fourth to build a dominant seven-run lead. Arkansas found its offense in the home half of the fourth with an RBI single by Jack Wagner to score Jared Sprague-Lott from third base with one out.

The Razorbacks ignited the spark they needed in the bottom of the fifth with a six-run rally. After Jayson Jones and Will Edmunson worked their way on base to begin the frame, Peyton Holt singled to left field to cut the lead to five, 7-2. Arkansas continued to chip away in the inning with two more runs and Ben McLaughlin smacked a two-run home run for his seventh dinger of the year to left to bring the Hogs within one. Facing his former team, Hudson White tied the game with a two-out RBI double down the third base line to plate Jack Wagner from second for his 12th run batted in this season.

“Ben McLaughlin had a tremendous at-bat,” Arkansas head coach Dave Van Horn said. “Went to a full count and caught him a fastball and just hit it opposite field with that slicing wind. We knew it was gone when it left the bat. That was just a big swing. There were plenty of those.

“It’s really rare to have a six-run inning. But to have each team with one? And that team that had theirs second ended up winning the game? It’s kind of usual.”

The Red Raiders responded in the top of the seventh with a leadoff homer by Austin Green off of Razorback pitcher Will McEntire to regain the lead, 8-7. Arkansas answered back in the bottom of the eighth with runners on the corners and one out when Peyton Stovall beat out a double play that allowed Ty Wilmsmeyer to score from third to tie the game back up.

The Razorbacks led off the bottom of the ninth with Sprague-Lott and Wehiwa Aloy reaching on back-to-back errors. After McLaughlin was hit by a pitch to load the bases, Nolan Souza stepped up to the plate as a pinch hitter and drove in Sprague-Lott from third on a sacrifice fly to right off of Texas Tech pitcher Parker Hutrya to complete the comeback for the Hogs.

“We had a perfect view of it. It was going to his glove and it hit something,” Van Horn said. “I don’t know. It might have gotten a little leather on it I guess. It took a bad hop. I guess you could score it an error, but it was a bad hop. But the one that got (Hutrya) was that it looked like he didn’t field the ball and immediately turned to throw to second because that could have been a double play. It looked like he was going to run or throw the ball to first base and then realized, ‘I need to throw to second base.’ Then it kind of slipped when he threw the ball.”

“I mean, that’s a recipe for disaster. We kind of saw that in our Game 2 at Alabama. The game can be really fragile, especially at the end. Every little thing matters, especially when it’s down there when it’s over if you score. We did just enough that inning to punch in a run.”

“When the coaches told me there might be a chance to go up and hit right there I was very excited to get up there and walk it off for all of us, our fans and our teammates,” Souza said postgame. “Whenever I got out of the pen they told me, ‘Yeah, this is your guy. Go up there and hit.’ I was really pumped and really happy they would leave me in and go get the job done.”

The Razorbacks wrap up the two-game midweek series against the Red Raiders on Wednesday in Baum-Walker Stadium. First pitch is scheduled for 4 p.m. (CDT) and can be seen on the SEC Network.