Alabama Baseball: Ole Miss Rebels Take Two From Crimson Tide In Doubleheader
By Chris Hale
The Alabama baseball team was forced to play a doubleheader on Saturday in Oxford, MS against Ole Miss due to threatening weather on Friday. The Rebels ended up taking both of those games and clinched the series. The third game is scheduled for Sunday with first pitch coming at noon CT. ESPN will carry the game.
The Tide falls to 22-20 (7-13 SEC).
Game One: Ole Miss 10, Alabama 2
- Win-Christian Trent (6-4): 8 IP, 6 H, 2 R, 1 ER, 1 BB, 5 K
- Loss-Taylor Guilbeau (2-4): 3 IP, 9 H, 4 R, 4 ER, 0 BB, 4 K, 1 HP
The Rebels’ offense got off to a quick start in the early game of the double header, making contact for a total of 17 hits compared to the Tide’s eight. Ole Miss hit .436 for the day and was 4-for-6 with runners on third with less than one out. On the flip side, Alabama was 1-for-5 with runners in scoring position and 2-for-12 with runners on.
Ole Miss jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the first inning with back to back RBI singles from Will Golsan and Colby Bortles.
Kyle Overstreet homered for Alabama in the bottom of the second to cut the Ole Miss lead down to just one run. That would be the closest the Tide came for the rest of the game as the Rebels began to pull away in the third inning.
Golsan led off the third with a single and scored on an RBI double from Sikes Orvis to put the Rebels on top 3-1. Ole Miss extended their lead to 6-1 during their next frame with a three-run home run from Bortles.
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Alabama added their last run of the game during the fifth after Overstreet drew a lead off walk and scored as Chandler Avant reached on an error charged to the Ole Miss shortstop.
Ole Miss padded their lead during the bottom of the same inning to reach the final score of 10-2. Cameron Dishon led off with a single and then was standing at third in scoring position after a stealing second and a wild pitch. He would score on an RBI single from Connor Cloyd. Cloyd ended up crossing the dish on a sacrifice fly from Bortles.
Game Two: Ole Miss 4, Alabama 0
- Win-Brady Bramlett (5-2): 7.1 IP, 4 H, 0 R, 0 ER, o BB, 9 K
- Loss-Jake Walters (4-2): 7 IP, 6H, 1 R, 1 ER, 4 BB, 6 K
- Save-Scott Weathersby (3): 1.2 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 2 K
A pitcher’s duel held both teams scoreless through four and a half innings. Bramlett only allowed three Tide hits and struck out seven in to the Bama fifth inning. Walters was just as impressive, only allowing two hits for the Rebels until the bottom of the fifth, when their four-hit frame gave them the early lead.
Back to back one out singles from Tate Blackman and Cameron Dishon put runners at first and second for Ole Miss. Dishon’s single could have been turned in to an inning ending double play but a bad hop sent the ball over Mikey White’s head and into the outfield. Connor Cloyd made the bad luck costly with his next at bat on an RBI single that gave Ole Miss the 1-0 lead.
Bramlett kept dealing on the mound until he was pulled in the eighth inning, only allowing one more hit for the Tide and moving his strikeout total to nine.
The Rebels added a cushion to carry into the ninth inning with a one out, two-run blast from Sikes Orvis in the eighth as well as another one into the left field bullpen from Austin Knight to put the Rebels ahead 4-0.
Next up for the Tide after Sunday’s game with the Rebels, Alabama will face Southern Miss on Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. CT. The game will be carried on SEC Network +.