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And two of the runs by Arkansas were unearned…

Big win for State!!! At least we have a chance to win the series now!!! Tomorrow is a new day!!! Lets Go Dawgs!!!

But Arkansas has halved the lead to 8-4 in the 6th inning. We need to score more runs to win this game…

Ole Miss 4 A&M 3 saw it coming. Just the SEC way.

Tough loss for the Dawgs… But it was a good game overall. Hopefully we burned some their best arms tonight.

Both Stephen & Smith had good outings but not what either expected. Each gave their team a chance to win which is really what you expect.

But last year we were terrible. Totally different scenario. This year we want our best guy going against their best guy. If you saved Stephen for Saturday, that tells your team you have no confidence in beating the other team. Also Lemonis is 1-11 against Van Horne. And that is including two CWS teams one of which won the Natty. So the odds are kind of similar to Ole Miss-State. Eventually we are going to beat them. Might as well be this weekend. LOL.

Stephen has pitched well. May be one of these classic pitching matchups that make baseball fun. And you are right that Smith has been great all year. On Sportstalk earlier someone asked about saving Stephen for Saturday or Sunday. That is dumb and dumber. These are the kind of matchups that players look forward to. You want your best guy against their best guy. We will see what happens.

One win in FYV would be a win for State. Two wins would be awesome but not expected at all. Arkansas has great pitching but they don’t necessarily score a lot of runs. So it is very possible that all three games will be close and lower to mid-scoring type games. Hopefully we can win one or two… I predict Ole Miss wins one game against Aggie maybe even two. Why? Just because the SEC is weird like that. Lot of pressure on A&M whereas Ole Miss can just go out and play ball. Conventional wisdom says a sweep by Aggie but I just don’t see it happening. USM helped themselves immensely last week with a sweep over Coastal. They are on the road at Arkansas State this weekend who is quite frankly not very good. But it is on the road. USM needs to win two. A sweep would be really good but it is hard to sweep a team on the road. They have put themselves in good position to make a Regional. Just need to continue to take care of business.

Tough loss for Ole Miss though 2 out of 3 is still a good weekend. Still a tall hill to climb the next two weeks.

Well two out of three is not bad. Tough to sweep a good team. So while today is disappointing the overall weekend was good.

Good, solid win. Great job of extending the lead. Saved our pitching so we should be in good shape tomorrow. Just need to keep getting timely hits and continue to play solid defense in the field. Let’s Go Dawgs!!!

Don’t think we are peaking but the team has finally jelled and playing with confidence.

A good win for the Dawgs! With the run rule, pitching is in good shape for the weekend.

The bad has definitely snowballed for Ole Miss this year. The team has talent. But as you allude to, one thing going wrong in a particular game seemingly just compounds. This weekend’s atmosphere at State will likely be the best since 2021. Should be a lot of fun at the Dude.

State with a 5-1 win in a game much closer than the score indicates. 1-1 game going into the bottom of the eighth before State got a four spot. Big Big win for State. Every game is so important right now. Huge series with Bama. Need to win two this weekend. Going to be tough as they are a solid team. But tonight was a good win.

I wonder if they are trying to get him in shape with these weekday outings with the idea that he will be able to help on the weekends as we get closer to the end of the regular season.

I was being facetious there but it speaks to the ridiculous nature of this in the current day.

We have two OOC games left that are must wins. We know one win at a time has to be the mentality. But we are fans so we can speculate. 2-0 in those games + 6-3 in the final 9 conference games would put us at 37-18 and 18-12 in the SEC. If we did that and went 2-2 in the Tournament, we would host IMHO. But it is a long way to go still. And in some ways I would be okay with us being a two seed somewhere else. Sometimes that takes pressure off a team. A win like today kind of feels like the ole Diamond Dawg mojo is back.

Today was certainly huge. To blow a 6 run lead but then come back and win it when we were down to our last out shows a lot of fortitude. We will see how it goes from here. Big, Big game at Trustmark Wednesday.

Definitely a good win for State. A win tomorrow would certainly help the resume considerably. Ole Miss is about to run out of rope. 7-14 in the league is going to be a tough hill to climb. Still have a chance but the fat lady is off stage warming up. I still think the team is better than what they have played so far. But at the same time I know the ole saying “after a certain point in time you are what your record is.”

Only 4 K’s for nine innings. Amazing that we didn’t scratch a run as we were making contact. But only two hits and a couple/three walks. Stephen pitched well enough to win but….

Which actually makes the most sense because that is the way baseball is. But this Ole Miss team is more weird than either of the 2022/2023 State teams or the 2023 Ole Miss team.

Definitely good for Ole Miss right now and as the saying goes “strike while the iron is hot” is certainly appropriate for Ole Miss in the present day.

How long before we see a player spout off that his deal is not as good as the player behind him on the bench and then goes on strike to get what be believes he deserves? Or what is the word? He opts out of a regular season game or two. Can’t call it quitting because we gotta be nice. Or just leaves his team in the middle of the season to go play for another team the very next week. Seems far fetched but I don’t see anything that would prevent it at the current time.