Connect with us

Baseball

No. 9 Ole Miss Baseball Welcomes Alabama to Swayze

Published

on

By Adam Brown
Sports Editor
adam.brown@hottytoddy.com

No. 9 Ole Miss returns home to Swayze Field, hosting the Alabama Crimson Tide in an SEC weekend tilt. The first pitch is set for Friday at 6:30 p.m. and can be streamed on SEC Network +.

Ole Miss (19-9, 4-5 SEC) looks to bounce back from a hard fought 10-7 loss to in-state rival Southern Miss on Tuesday night in Pearl. Prior to Tuesday’s game, Ole Miss picked up a series win at Kentucky, earning a tight win on Friday before blowing out the Wildcats 10-1 on Sunday.

Tim Elko leads Ole Miss with a .333 batting average in conference play. Four of Elko’s 11 home runs and 13 of the slugger’s 37 RBI’s have come against conference opposition.

Alabama rolls into Oxford with an 18-12 overall record and a 4-5 mark in SEC play on the season. The Crimson Tide defeated Samford 10-1 on Tuesday night and took the back end of the series against Texas A&M over the weekend.

This season, Alabama is led at the dish by senior Tommy Seidl with a .333 batting average with 35 hits, nine doubles, a home run and 16 RBIs. His teammate Zane Denton leads the way in home runs with seven, and 10 doubles.

As a club, the Crimson Tide is hitting at a .292 average, while opponents have a .241 average on the season. Alabama’s hurlers have allowed 36 home runs.

The probable pitching matchups for this weekend will showcase the arms of right-hander Garrett McMillan (Friday), RHP Jacob McNairy (Saturday) and southpaw Grayson Hitt (Sunday). Coach Mike Bianco will send southpaw Hunter Elliott to the hill on Friday. The Rebels are TBA on the mound for Saturday and Sunday.

Ole Miss and Alabama have met on the diamond 367 times. The Rebels have won six of the last seven and 10 of the last 12 meetings between the two schools. Ole Miss has not lost a series to the Crimson Tide since 2016.

Game times for this weekends SEC West tilt are Friday (6:30 p.m.), Saturday (2 p.m.) both games can be streamed on SEC Network+. On Sunday, Ole Miss and Alabama will close the series at 2 p.m. on SEC Network.


Sports Editor

Ole Miss Men’s Basketball

Mon, Nov 4Long Island University Logovs Long Island University W, 90-60
Fri, Nov 8Grambling Logovs GramblingW, 66-64
Tue, Nov 12South Alabama Logovs South AlabamaW, 64-54
Sat, Nov 16Colorado State Logovs Colorado StateW, 84-69
Thu, Nov 21Oral Roberts Logovs Oral RobertsL, 100-68
Thu, Nov 28BYU Logovs BYUW, 96-85 OT
Fri, Nov 29Purdue Logovs 13 PurdueL, 80-78
Tue, Dec 3Louisville Logo@ LouisvilleW, 86-63
Sat, Dec 7Lindenwood Logovs LindenwoodW, 86-53
Sat, Dec 14Georgia Logovs Southern MissW, 77-46
Tue, Dec 17Southern Logovs SouthernW, 74-61
Sat, Dec 21Queens University Logovs Queens UniversityW, 80-62
Sat, Dec 28Memphis Logo@ MemphisL, 87-70
Sat, Jan 4Georgia Logovs GeorgiaW, 63-51
Wed, Jan 8Arkansas Logo@ 23 ArkansasW, 73-66
Sat, Jan 11LSU Logovs LSUW, 77-65
Tue, Jan 14Alabama Logo@ 5 AlabamaW, 74-64
Sat, Jan 18Mississippi State Logo@ 17 Mississippi StateL, 81-84
Wed, Jan 22Texas A&M State Logovs 13 Texas A&ML, 62-63
Sat, Jan 25Missouri Logo@ Missouri5:00 PM
SECN
Wed, Jan 29Texas Logovs Texas8:00 PM
ESPN2
Sat, Feb 1Auburn Logovs 2 Auburn3:00 PM
TBA
Tue, Feb 4Kentucky Logovs 10 Kentucky6:00 PM
ESPN
Sat, Feb 8LSU Logo@ LSU7:30 PM
SECN
Wed, Feb 12South Carolina Logo@ South Carolina6:00 PM
SECN
Sat, Feb 15Mississippi State Logovs 17 Mississippi State5:00 PM
TBA
Sat, Feb 22Auburn Logo@ Vanderbilt2:30 PM
SECN
Wed, Feb 26Auburn Logo@ 2 Auburn6:00 PM
TBA
Sat, Mar 1Oklahoma Logovs 12 Oklahoma1:00 PM
TBA
Wed, Mar 5Tennessee Logovs 1 Tennessee8:00 PM
TBA
Sat, Mar 8Florida Logo@ 6 Florida5:00 PM
SECN

@ COPYRIGHT 2024 BY HT MEDIA LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. HOTTYTODDY.COM IS AN INDEPENT DIGITAL ENTITY NOT AFFILIATED WITH THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI.