Auburn set to host Alabama State at Plainsman Park on Tuesday

Auburn baseball is back on the diamond Tuesday as they host Alabama State.

For the first time since the 2016 season, the Auburn Tigers will play Alabama State. The first pitch is set for 6:00 p.m. CT.

These two teams have met 10 times since the 2011 season with the Tigers winning nine of those games. Auburn has won five straight since Alabama State’s lone victory in 2014.

The Tigers trailed 4-3 going into the eighth inning on that day when the Hornets struck for five runs on two singles, two doubles. and a throwing error from Terrance Derick. He allowed two runs 0.2 innings of work, both were unearned runs.

Auburn will look to make it six straight against Alabama State after they took two of three against Yale over the weekend. The Hornets and Tigers played two games in 2016, both times Auburn scored 11 runs in each game.

So far this season the Auburn baseball team is 5-2. After dropping the opening game of the season to the Oklahoma Sooners, the Tigers won five straight before their extra-innings loss to Yale in the back half of the doubleheader. The Alabama State game is the first of six games over the next five days.

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