Baseball Update

Well folks, I'll be away for the next 2-3 days and there is much that I need to catch up on so lets get to it. We'll get started with baseball. There has been six games since my first update and they haven't necessarily been all that encouraging.

3/2 Mississippi State vs. Troy: Last Friday MSU played Troy in their first game of the Cadence Bank Classic. Weatherford started and came away with the 2-1 win. Once again Weatherford looked good, striking out 7 and allowing 3 hits in 7 innings of work. That was the good. The bad is that all that good hitting in the first few games might have been a mirage. When State came up against good pitching for the first time the results, as you can tell, weren't too pretty.

3/3 Mississippi State vs. Michigan: Miss. State's first loss of the season was a 4-3 decision to Michigan. Pigott started but struggled mightily which is a tad worrisome. My gut says it was just a bad day though. He struckout 9 but allowed 9 hits and 4 runs in 8 innings. Again the bats were quieted as MSU got just 7 hits. They trailed 3-0 in the third and 4-1 in the bottom of the eighth. Two runs in the eighth cut the lead to 4-3, but MSU couldn't put anything together in the ninth and 4-3 was the final.

3/4 Mississippi State vs. Troy: MSU came away with a 12-4 victory. 11 hits, 8 RBIs, much better offensive performance but they weren't exactly facing Troy's ace. Josh Johnson was adequate as the starting pitcher, but my goodness, John Lalor is looking bad early on in the season. Gave up 5 hits and 3 runs in just 2 innings.

3/6 Mississippi State vs UAB: Well, they won 12-10. That's the good news. MSU got their scoring going again which is also good. Again, it's against weak pitching though. Show me something against tougher competition. Speaking of weak pitching. Tyler Whitney (started), Greg Houston, and Chad Crosswhite didn't exactly set the world on fire. 15 hits and 10 runs, not good.

3/7 Mississippi State vs Jacksonville St.: They won 11-9, but once again, some very suspect pitching. 14 hits and 9 runs to JSU? Come on. Jared Koon, Jesse Carver, and Ricky Bowen were responsible for this unfortunate performance. On the plus side of things, John Lalor was the bright side and maybe redeemed himself. 3 K's and 1 hit given up in 3.2 innings. A bright spot on an ugly day. Easly, Moreland, Turner and Laninfa looking like the offensive threats so far this year.

3/9 Mississippi State vs. Winthrop: The second loss of the year came at the hands of Winthrop who came from behind to win 7-6 in extra innings. Weatherford struggled allowing 9 hits and 3 runs and Crosswhite couldn't hold the lead in relief. 13 hits on the day for Winthrop. Surprising considering Weatherford started.