TUSCALOOSA, Ala., – Mississippi State won its fourth straight SEC road series this weekend and have now claimed six of their first seven conference series overall.
But the fourth-ranked Diamond Dogs didn’t leave Alabama’s Sewell-Thomas Stadium as happy as they would have liked on Saturday. MSU dropped the first game of a doubleheader 4-3 in the bottom of the ninth before bouncing back with a 2-1 victory in seven frames to take the series.
“We’ve been very successful on the road and I credit our kid’s toughness,” said MSU skipper . “But man, the greed in me says we let one slip through our fingers today.