Rebel baseball goes for a series win against South Carolina

Dylan DeLucia pitched greater than seven extremely clutch innings on Thursday, and the Insurgent bats struck early and infrequently to result in a 9-1 win over South Carolina.

Ole Miss (22-12, 5-8 SEC) now has an opportunity to shut out a sequence win on the highway in Columbia tonight, and it will additionally make it the third straight SEC highway sequence for this crew to win (which is extremely bizarre to do this after which get swept at house twice).

TJ McCants and Reagan Burford each homered in Thursday’s recreation whereas DeLucia put in a season excessive 7.2 innings with just one run allowed. Matt Parenteau pitched the ultimate 1.1 innings to shut out the sport, so the Rebels solely utilizing two pitchers to get recreation one in every of this sequence accomplished is MASSIVE in comparison with earlier SEC outings.

On Friday, veteran pitcher Derek Diamond will take the bump for Ole Miss trying to enhance on his 3-2 report with a 5.91 ERA. Diamond has not been capable of log a top quality begin in SEC play this 12 months, however final weekend’s 4.1 IP and solely two runs allowed was an unlimited enchancment from different efforts.

Sakerlina will counter with RHP Noah Corridor who has posted a 1-4 report with a 5.40 ERA. Corridor has been sizzling of late, nevertheless, going seven innings and solely permitting one run in each of his final two begins towards Georgia and Missouri. This can be a child who can go 100+ pitches if wanted to maintain his squad within the recreation, so the Rebels might want to work deep counts and discover some well timed hitting to get a W on Friday.

We’ll replace this submit later at present with how Ole Miss will lineup, cheers!