Tigers drop 4th straight

Auburn’s hitting slump continued Tuesday night at Regions Field.

The 14th-ranked Tigers hit into three inning-ending double plays and left 13 runners on base in an 8-2 loss at UAB. A fourth-straight defeat drops Auburn’s record to 32-18 while UAB improves to 23-26.

The Tigers were just 4-of-17 with runners on base.

“Tough four games here and I think we know it’s not just our opponent … it’s more to do with our at-bats and the pitches we’re making and more to do with us,” Auburn coach Butch Thompson said.

“Sometimes a team hits a stretch. I think we’re in our’s right now … We need to make some adjustments. For the most part, it’s good to see if we’ll learn our lessons but we need to learn them quickly at this stage of the season.”

UAB had 14 hits against six Auburn pitchers. AU starter Christian Camacho (2-3) took the loss allowing three runs on five hits in 4.2 innings. He did strike out a career-high six batters including five in the first two innings.

Damon Haecker had two of Auburn’s eight hits, both doubles, and one RBI. Dylan Ingram was 1-of-3 with a run scored and one RBI and Will Holland was 1-of-3 with one RBI.

Jonah Todd finished 0-of-4, ending his 16-game hitting streak.

“I think it’s mental more than physical at this point,” Thompson said. “Everybody at this point in the season is a little banged up. We definitely have our share but so does every team. It just becomes a mind game of going with what you got and pulling together as a team.

“The umpires, all that, you can find all these excuses to distract … I think we can have better effort, better body language, better execution all the way around. For a brief moment I thought we felt sorry for ourselves tonight and that can’t be the case.”

Auburn returns to SEC play with a three-game series at LSU beginning Thursday night at 6:30 on ESPNU. Friday’s game will be 7 p.m. on SECN+ and WatchESPN and Saturday’s noon on the SEC Network.