A year later, it was the 6-foot sophomore right-hander’s turn to pump his fist and be mobbed by teammates after the Jayhawks’ 9-8, series-clinching victory over the rival Tigers on Saturday night at Hoglund Ballpark.

“I had a bad outing against them last year. The fact I came in and we beat Mizzou today … it makes me feel a lot better about myself,” Murray said.

He allowed one hit in 31/3 innings — a monumental feat considering MU had plated eight runs off 10 hits in the first six frames.

“It was great to see him get an opportunity to redeem himself and help our team win a huge game,” KU coach Ritch Price said after the Jayhawks won their second game in two days versus the Tigers. The Jayhawks, who hadn’t won a series versus MU since 2006, today will try for the sweep in a 1 p.m. series finale.

Murray struck out MU third baseman Andrew Thigpen looking to end a game played before a huge crowd of 1,474 fans.

“I was pretty fired up when I got in. I hadn’t thrown for a week, so I’d been sitting down, resting. Once I got out there, I was ready to go,” Murray said.

The Tigers, who fell to the Jayhawks, 10-3, on Friday night, led 6-1 after 31/2 innings. The Jayhawks plated six runs off five hits in the fourth. Tony Thompson had the big hit in the inning — a two-run, bases-loaded double, which brought KU within one run. Casey Lytle followed with a single that scored Brian Heere and Thompson after the ball was bobbled in right field.

“Mizzou is a tough team. It’s a rivalry. You will bring the most energy you can, because if you can’t get up for Missouri, there’s something wrong with you,” said Thompson, who went 3-for-5 with three RBIs.

“We always want to beat Mizzou. It’s been tough the last couple years. Having already won it (series) going into the third day, we’re feeling pretty comfortable. We know we have to come out tomorrow and make sure we give our best effort to try to sweep,” Thompson added.

Brett Lisher socked three hits in four at-bats with two runs scored. Robby Price was 2-for-4 with three RBIs and Brandon Macias 2-for-3 with three runs scored.

KU busted an 8-8 tie on Heere’s deep fly ball to right field that plated Lisher, who had led off with a double and advanced to third on a sacrifice by Macias.

The Jayhawks, who are alone in fifth place in the Big 12, improved to 28-19-1 overall and 9-10-1 in the league.

Missouri fell to 24-21 and 7-14.

The series victory over the Tigers proved significant to Price.

“We’ve lost series at Missouri the last two times on walk-off home runs in the ninth. It feels good to have found a way to win the series in the first two games. Now we have a chance to do something special,” Price said. “We get a sweep tomorrow and we’d be back to .500 in the conference and would have overcome those four one-run losses we’ve had since Bochy (Brett, who had arm surgery April 9) left.”