FAYETTEVILLE -- Another big inning did in Arkansas on Saturday.
Florida broke open a scoreless game with five runs in the sixth inning, and the No. 2 Gators went on to beat the Razorbacks 8-2 at Baum Stadium before an announced crowd of 6,937.
Arkansas (21-15, 4-11 SEC) lost is eighth consecutive conference game and was swept in a three-game series at home for the first time since South Carolina did it in 2010.
The Razorbacks' opponents have scored at least four runs in one inning in six of their past seven SEC games.
Florida (33-5, 11-4) scored six runs in the fourth inning in a 12-8 victory over the Razorbacks on Thursday night and five runs in the fifth inning in a 9-2 victory Friday night.
"It seemed like we just played three of the exact same games, but it was an inning later each day," Arkansas Coach Dave Van Horn said. "It was the fourth, it was the fifth, and today it was the sixth."
The Razorbacks are tied with Tennessee for the SEC's worst record and have lost eight consecutive conference games for the first time since 2009.
"I felt like the players were into it," Van Horn said. "They played hard. If you take that [sixth] inning away, that's going to be a nail-biter to the end, I really believe it."
The Gators loaded the bases against Arkansas starter Zach Jackson with one out in the sixth on a single by Jeremy Vasquez and walks to Nelson Maldonado and Deacon Liput. Jackson then hit Buddy Reed with a 3-2 pitch, forcing in a run.
Van Horn -- who yelled at home plate umpire Ryan Morehead from the dugout that Liput should have been called out on a 3-2 pitch and Reed on a 2-2 pitch -- brought in Doug Willey to replace Jackson.
JJ Swartz hit a sacrifice fly to right field to score a run, and Peter Alonso followed with a three-run home run into the right-field bullpen. It was his eighth home run this season.
"Alonso put a big swing on it and drove a ball, sliced it down the right-field line," Van Horn said. "He's probably one of the strongest players in the league. He cut that ball through the wind, and it squeaked out over the fence for three runs just like that.
"Down 2-0, we're OK. Even if he gets a hit, 3-0. But when he popped the three-run homer, with two outs, two on, that was a big blow."
Van Horn said after the game it was a small strike zone for both teams, although Florida starter Alex Faedo (7-1) had the Gators' only two walks in his 6 1/3 innings, along with 10 strikeouts on 108 pitches.
"I don't know if we're supposed to say a whole lot about him," Jackson said of the home plate umpire. "But I feel like he missed a few there that were really critical.
"It was definitely frustrating."
Jackson, the Razorbacks' former closer, made his second consecutive start and matched his career high of 5 1/3 innings. He held the Gators to 1 hit, but allowed 4 walks and 4 earned runs on 104 pitches.
"I felt really good today," Jackson said. "I just came out and could tell when I was getting loose before the game that the ball was coming out well. I could really feel all of my pitches.
"Then I got kind of gassed, lost a lot of control. I was probably trying to overthrow too much, and it ended up costing us big-time."
Arkansas, which hasn't led during its eight-game SEC losing streak, couldn't score after loading the bases with no outs in the second inning after Luke Bonfield walked, Austin Catron singled and Michael Bernal walked.
Faedo got Rick Nomura on a popout, struck out Chad Spanberger and got Tucker Pennell on a groundout.
The Razorbacks got two on with one out in the third inning on singles by Eric Cole and Clark Eagan, but they left them stranded when Bonfield grounded out and Catron struck out.
"We're putting ourselves in good situations," said Bernal, who was 3 for 3 and scored both of the Razorbacks' runs. "We just need to come through."
The Razorbacks outhit the Gators nine to seven.
"We got our hits, but it's about timely hitting, and we didn't get any of those and they did," Van Horn said. "Hats off to them.
"They came through with the big hits and the big inning, and the big inning we put together never materialized after we got the bases loaded."
Jackson said he didn't get discouraged or put extra pressure on himself when the Razorbacks couldn't get the lead despite getting five runners on base in the second and third innings.
"I don't really think about that," Jackson said. "I think for me as a pitcher, just seeing how our whole team is struggling, it's kind of a bright spot that we can keep putting ourselves in these situations.
"It's going to come through eventually. That's all I keep thinking to myself, is we're right there with these situations.
"It's just slowly coming together. Just not quite there yet."
Sports on 04/17/2016