Auburn pitchers generally didn’t have trouble getting the first two outs of every inning Saturday afternoon. It was the third out that posed the biggest challenge and ultimately led to their demise.

No. 15 Arkansas scored every single one of its runs with two outs in a 10-6 win at Plainsman Park, pushing across five runs in the final two innings to secure its second victory in as many days against the Tigers.

Chase Leavitt and Scott Lyons had two hits and three RBIs apiece for the Razorbacks (15-4, 5-0 SEC), who will go for the series sweep Sunday at 2 p.m. EDT. Paul Burnside takes the mound for Auburn against Arkansas’ Drew Smyly.

“We’ve got to regroup,” Auburn coach John Pawlowski said. “I told them that the way you get to the SEC tournament is you’ve got to avoid being swept, on the road or at home.”

Auburn (15-7, 2-3 SEC) let the game slip away in the final two innings, which included these miscues:

• A dropped pop-up by third baseman Joseph Sanders, who lost the ball in the sun.
• Four walks by reliever Austin Hubbard.
• A missed suicide squeeze sign by Bradley Ray, who lined into an easy inning-ending double play.

“The last two innings were not great innings for Auburn baseball, that’s for sure,” Pawlowski said. “But I told the kids that’s the difference sometimes. It’s those little things that we’ve got to get better at.”

Some other notes and thoughts ...

• Auburn continued to show a little power. Justin Hargett hit his first home run since a walk-off in the opener and Hunter Morris added a solo shot in the sixth, his fifth of the year. Auburn now has 48 home runs this season.

• It looked like the Tigers were in business when Sanders bounced a two-run single to left off Arkansas' lights-out reliever Stephen Richards to take a 6-5 lead. But all that momentum was lost in the next half inning.

• Tough outing for reliever Austin Hubbard, Auburn's most reliable reliever to date. The right-hander gave up four runs (three earned) in two innings, allowing four hits and walking four.

• Richards (4-0), who got the win after pitching the final 2 2/3 innings, has given up only one earned run in 16 innings this year.

• Starter Jon Luke Jacobs went five innings but threw a lot of pitches (102 to be exact). He struck out six but went deep into a lot of counts, walking four batters.

• Tigers pitchers walked nine batters and hit two more on the afternoon. “You give up 11 free bases to any team, let alone a team like Arkansas, in the SEC, it’s going to be tough,” Pawlowski said. “We certainly couldn’t overcome that today.”