***2021 Baseball South Carolina (26-13) at Mississippi (29-12) Game 2 Thread***

[ConwayGamecock]

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Swayze Field, Oxford, MS​

Saturday May 1, 2021 2:30 PM ET​

GAME 2​

#13 SOUTH CAROLINA GAMECOCKS (26-13, 11-8) AT #19 MISSISSIPPI REBELS (29-12, 11-8)
2:30 P.M. ET  |  OXFORD, MS  |   OXFORD-UNIVERSITY STADIUM AT SWAYZE FIELD

GAME NOTES:  PDF | WATCH:  | LISTEN: 107.5 The Game | Live Stats

COLUMBIA, S.C. -- The South Carolina Gamecock baseball team will look to rebound from its 5-1 opening game loss to the Mississippi Rebels with a doubleheader Saturday at Oxford-University Stadium at Swayze Field in Oxford, Miss. The first game (Game 2) begins at 2:30 p.m. ET (1:30 p.m. CT) and will be streamed on SEC Network Plus. The second game (Game 3) will start at 7:00 p.m. ET (6:30 p.m. CT) and televised on SEC Network proper with Roy Philpott and David Dellucci on the call. Every Gamecock contest will be on the Gamecock Radio Network with Derek Scott and Tommy Moody on the call. This will be the third straight SEC doubleheader for the Gamecocks and both games will be nine innings.

PROBABLE PITCHING ROTATION
Saturday (Game 2)
South Carolina Brannon Jordan (Sr. RHP) 4-2, 3.04 ERA, 33 BB, 76 SO
Ole Miss Doug Nikhazy (Jr., LHP) 4-2, 1.81 ERA, 19 BB, 70 SO

In Friday's game, the Rebels scored a pair of runs in the first and three in the fourth for their scoring. Carolina had two hits on the night, one of them a solo home run in the seventh for Josiah Sightler, his sixth of the season.
 
Thomas Farr took the loss, allowing four earned runs on seven hits with five strikeouts in five innings. John Gilreath pitched three scoreless frames for the Gamecocks in relief. Gunnar Hoglund earned the win for Ole Miss, striking out nine in six innings of work.

POSTGAME NOTES

• Sightler and Andrew Eyster had hits for the Gamecocks.
  
• Gilreath lowered his ERA to 2.31 after tonight's contest.
  
• Attendance was 8,581, the largest crowd that the Gamecocks have played in front of this season.
  

https://gamecocksonline.com/news/2021/4/30/baseball-falls-to-ole-miss-on--night.aspx

 

[kingofnerf]

I hope we get better in this game, but it seems we have lost the handle on hitting.

 

[gamecock88]

Well our lead off guy doesn’t have a hit in the series.  Team seems to be in a slump for large parts of games.   Starting pitchers dominate us. 

 

[ConwayGamecock]

The South Carolina Gamecocks fall to the Mississippi Rebels 7-3 in Game 2 of the best-of-3 series. Brannon Jordan (4-3) takes the loss, pitching 5.0 innings with 4 hits and 4 runs - all earned - with 4 strikeouts and 4 walks. He threw 95 pitches. Andrew Peters came in relief for 3.0 innings allowing 3 earned runs on 4 hits as well, with 4 strikeouts and 0 walks. The Gamecocks allowed 3 home-runs in the game.

The Gamecocks had 7 hits on 34 at-bats. The runs were driven in by Colin Burgess who went 3 for 4 with a solo home run, and George Callil who was 1 for 3 with a double, and 2 RBIs....