LISTEN: Ole Miss baseball will spend regular season’s final week on the road
Ole Miss baseball will spend the final week of the regular season exclusively on the road.
The Rebels (27-24, 11-16 SEC) first get No. 25 Southern Miss (34-17, 18-9 SBC) in Hattiesburg on Tuesday at 6 p.m. CT on ESPN+, followed by three this weekend at LSU. Ole Miss gave itself some postseason life in taking its most recent series with then-No. 2 Texas A&M.
This Monday (May 13, 2024) edition of the Rebel Yell Hotline has all the latest, with guest appearances from Ole Miss hitting coach Mike Clement and baseball color commentator Brad Henderson of the Ole Miss Radio Network.
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Starting pitching set the tone for Ole Miss against Texas A&M.
The trio of Riley Maddox, Liam Doyle and Mason Nichols compiled a 2.12 collective ERA and 19 strikeouts over 17 innings, allowing all of four earned runs on 13 hits.
Maddox, on Friday, put forward his third quality start of the season. Maddox went six innings and gave up just two earned runs. He struck out seven.
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Doyle was the winning pitcher Saturday. He, too, went six innings. Texas A&M managed just one run on him and struck out seven times. Nichols went five innings int he finale. He was tagged for a run on three hits with a career-high five strikeouts.
Ole Miss has won four SEC series, including back-to-back wins for the first time since 2022. The Rebels feature the nation’s No. 2 strength of schedule and likely need 13 SEC wins to make the NCAA Tournament, according to D1Baseball’s Kendall Rogers.
