This past weekend the Ole Miss Baseball team faced off against gave up the tying run in the bottom of the the then undefeated number one ranked Vanderbilt Commodores in Nashville for the opening SEC series for both teams. The Rebs managed to win the Saturday game but sadly lost the other games of the series to loose the series 1-2. This was especially sad for Rebel "Closer" Scott Bittle. The Rebels had a 2-1 lead going into the bottom of the 9th against Vanderbilt's ace David Price (who many think might be the number one pick in the summers MLB amateur draft). Bittle gave up the tying run in the ninth and the loosing run in the bottom of the tenth.
Not to be out done by that performance, on Sunday's game the Rebels again turned to Bittle with the lead in the bottom of the ninth. Bittle promptly gave up the winning runs to Vanderbilt to snatch defeat in the face of victory. I'm not ready to give up on Bittle yet, or worse call him Kolb-esque, but Bianco needs to think hard and really make sure he's got the mind to be a closer in the SEC. He's got the arm but it takes more than that to be a successful closer.
Of course you don't think it could get any worse for baseball player do you. Well if your
Mississippi State's Mitch Moreland you had a worse week. Mitch hit what he though was a four run grand slam against Dallas Baptist. Only he out ran a fellow Bulldog baserunner and was called out on a 3 run scoring fielder's choice to hit one of the rare three run grand slams. Sadly this could have proved to be the difference as State lost the game.
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