The Mississippi State baseball team swept through the Starkville Regional this weekend mostly due to some outstanding pitching performances.
What if I told you that Mississippi State would lean heavily on their pitching staff to win their regional tournament and Dakota Hudson would provide the worst outing of the weekend? Well that’s exactly what happened in Starkville this past weekend. Friday afternoon’s game was billed as ace vs. ace with Hudson going against SEMO starter Joey Lucchesi, the nation’s strikeout leader. But the game wouldn’t live up to the billing as Hudson gave up four runs in his shortest start of the year, 3.