Fantastic pitching performances from Drew Pomeranz and Scott Bittle led Ole Miss to a series win yesterday over the Vanderbilt Commodores.
Pomeranz threw 7 scoreless innings and struck out 7 while walking only 2 in the second game of the day. His pitching performance helped Ole Miss to an 8-0 win.
With the two wins yesterday, the Rebels cliched the series win over Vanderbilt and will be going for the sweep today with Cody Satterwhite on the hill. First pitch is scheduled for 1:30 PM.
Other Rebel teams in action today are the #7 Men’s Tennis team hosting #16 LSU, the Softball team is hosting Kentucky, and the Women’s Tennis team plays at LSU. All of these events are scheduled for 1:00PM.
Well, bottom of the 2nd and the offense shows up… Jeremy Travis drives in 2 with a double to center field. Still batting, so hopefully we’ll find some more runs right here.
Ouch… Top of the 1st, one down and De La Osa and Pedro Alvarez both hit solo homeruns off of Lance Lynn. Not a good start for the Rebel ace.
Whew… out of the inning with no additional damage. Lynn strikes out one and gets a ground out for the final 2 outs of the inning. On to the bottom of the 1st…
Well, that was quick… 3 up, 3 down for the Rebels in the first. I know Minor is good, but the Rebels haven’t shown anything to make me think the hitting woes are going to end today so far.
The question of the day, at least as far as I’m concerned, is whether or not the Rebel baseball team can end their hitting woes against Vanderbilt. We’ve seen this team slumping at the plate for the past several weeks and, quite frankly, it’s time for this team to prove that they’re as talented as Mike Bianco has claimed and end that slump today.
I’ve said all along that we’ve looked like we have been trying to play the “Gorilla Ball” of the mid-90’s LSU squads. With the new bats, it seems like the better choice would be to take advantage of our abundant speed on the basepaths and try to manufacture runs whenever possible. Yes, with hitters like Overbeck, Power, and Matt Smith in the lineup, we’re going to try to hit some homeruns. That’s ok with me as long as the other batters in the lineup do their part and hit for contact, get on base, sacrifice runners over, and manufacture some runs.
We know the pitching is solid, now it’s just time for the bats to wake up and help us win some baseball games.
Filed under: Baseball — Rebel Ramblings @ 10:00 am
Due to an uncooperative Almighty, the Rebels are scheduled to take on the Vanderbilt Commodores in a double header today starting at 1:00PM. With a compressed weekend, the Rebels desperately need to take at least one of these two games today and really need to find a way to produce more runs than they have in recent weeks.
