Ole Miss wastes Tim Elko’s 4-for-4 day, loses 4-2 at South Carolina

Tim Elko’s heroics and considered one of Ole Miss baseball’s higher pitched video games of the yr weren’t sufficient to get the Rebels a W on Friday night time.

The Rebels (21-13, 5-9 SEC) misplaced 4-2 at South Carolina on Friday, night the weekend sequence at one win apiece. Elko had a monster night time, batting 4-for-4 with two solo house runs. However the remainder of the offense solely logged two hits with no walks, squandering a stable pitching efficiency from Rebels right-handers Derek Diamond and Riley Maddox.

South Carolina starter Noah Corridor flummoxed Ole Miss hitters all day, mixing his fastball and changeup to permit two runs on six hits in 7 2/3 innings. Ole Miss hitters solely registered two three-ball counts and no walks towards Corridor, who was pinpoint all night time and held six of the primary seven hitters in Ole Miss’ lineup hitless.

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Elko was the lone shiny spot. Friday marked his first four-hit recreation of the season and continued his torrid begin to SEC play. In 14 SEC video games, Elko is 23-for-54 (.426) with 23 RBIs, 12 runs scored and eight house runs. 

Diamond allowed 4 runs on 5 hits with no walks in 5 1/3 innings. Many of the injury Diamond incurred got here on a two-out three-run house run from left fielder Josiah Sightler within the third inning. The wind carried Sightler’s ball in a significant method, as Diamond celebrated and Sightler slammed his bat after contact, each visibly assuming Sightler had popped as much as finish the Gamecocks’ menace.

Freshman Riley Maddox retired all eight of the batters he confronted in aid of Diamond, inducing six groundouts with one strikeout and one flyout.

Ole Miss and South Carolina play the decisive third recreation of their three-game sequence on Saturday at 12 p.m. 

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