Tulane University
8-2
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Mississippi State University
6-4
Baseball Drops Series Opener to #11 Mississippi State
Mar 4, 2022 | Baseball
NEW ORLEANS - The Tulane University baseball team (8-2) fell 19-2 to #11 Mississippi State University (6-4) on Friday night inside Greer Field at Turchin Stadium.
Mississippi State showed why they are the reigning College World Series champions on Friday, as they cruised to a lopsided win.
"I told the guys after the game, there's nothing about this that's okay," head coach Travis Jewett said. "There's not enough games. We still have two games to play, but if we want to be the team that we think we can be, we took a big step back tonight."
Tulane was outhit 17-4 and didn't help themselves in the field, committing four errors. The Green Wave defense has been solid all year up until Friday, committing only three errors on the season so far.
The Green Wave bullpen was busy all night, sending seven members to the hill. The Tulane staff in total threw 227 pitches. The staff had a rare off night early in the season, as the Wave touted a 3.08 ERA into the game.
Junior right-hander Tyler Hoffman got the start for the Green Wave and gave up seven runs, six earned, in 3.2 innings of work. Hoffman worked hard, throwing 90 pitches, as he was hurt by two errors and a few mental errors in the field.
Junior righty Landon Sims was on the bump for Mississippi State and was utterly dominant. The potential first-round pick in the 2022 MLB Draft struck out ten of the 11 batters he faced before leaving in the fourth with an apparent hand injury.
"There's no margin for error the way he (Sims) was going," Jewett said. "Sometimes you have to tip your cap to a guy."
Mississippi State was already up 6-0 when it added a crooked number (9) in the fifth, mainly thanks to a three-run opposite field home run by freshman Hunter Hines and a two-run jack by sophomore Kellum Clark.
Trevor Minder doubled, moved to third on a Jacob LaPrairie ground ball, and scored on an Ethan Groff sacrifice fly to give Tulane its first run of the game in the bottom of the sixth.
In a night where Green Wave highlights were scarce, Groff got the fans out of their seats in the bottom of the eighth when he launched a ball to center field that hit on the very top of the wall in center. The ball was a few inches from being a three-run home run, but ended up being a loud RBI double to bring the score to 17-2.
It wasn't the Green Wave's night, but the series is still up for grabs. Dylan Carmouche takes the hill for the Wave, facing his old team in his third start of the year.
UP NEXT: Game two of the series starts tomorrow at 2:00 p.m. inside GFATS.
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Team Stats
Pitching:
W: Smith, Brandon (1-0)
L: Hoffman, Tyler (0-2)
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Batting:
2B: Hines, Hunter 1 ; Cumbest, Brad 2
HR: Hines, Hunter 1 ; Clark, Kellum 1
RBI: Hancock, Luke 2 ; James, Kamren 2 ; Hines, Hunter 3 ; McGowan, Drew 1 ; Tanner, Logan 2 ; Seibert, Von 1 ; Cumbest, Brad 2 ; Clark, Kellum 3 ; Yeager, RJ 1
SF: James, Kamren 2
Base Running:
RUNS: Hancock, Luke 3 ; Hines, Hunter 2 ; Tanner, Logan 2 ; Seibert, Von 1 ; Cumbest, Brad 2 ; Clark, Kellum 1 ; Downs, Aaron 1 ; Yeager, RJ 2 ; Meche, Davis 2 ; Leggett, Tanner 2 ; Forsythe, Lane 1
HBP: Downs, Aaron 1 ; Leggett, Tanner 1
Batting:
2B: Groff, Ethan 1 ; Minder, Trevor 1
RBI: Groff, Ethan 2
SF: Groff, Ethan 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Minder, Trevor 1 ; Schulz, Gavin 1
HBP: LaPrairie, Jacob 1
