School baseball is formally again and Mississippi State picked proper up the place it left off— profitable. Manhattan traveled right down to Starkville on Friday for the primary of three video games this weekend.
Not solely did the Jaspers lose in blowout style, their left fielder received obliterated in a scene straight out of a cartoon.
Mississippi State, for many who don’t know, is without doubt one of the premier packages in faculty baseball. The Bulldogs gained a nationwide title as not too long ago as 2021 and certified for a Regional in 10 of the final 13 years. This 12 months’s group is ranked as excessive as No. 15 within the numerous preseason rankings. It has Omaha potential!
As is the case in most sports activities, elite faculty baseball groups sometimes start the season with an inferior non-conference opponent if they aren’t taking part in one of many many Opening Weekend tournaments. Mississippi State welcomed Manhattan to The Dude. The Jaspers went 22-30 final 12 months and 10-14 within the MAAC.
They started the brand new season at 0-1 by a rating of 17-3. Manhattan scored its solely runs of the sport in the course of the late innings towards Mississippi State’s least skilled arms.
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Senior utilityman Aaron Downs received within the recreation in the course of the fourth inning. The Bulldogs had been already up 14-0 when he stepped into the field on a 0-1 rely with runners on second and third.
He put them up 17-0 along with his first-career dinger! It traveled 368 ft with an exit velocity of 98 miles per hour. Nonetheless, it didn’t seem like a assured residence run off of the bat.
Jaspers left fielder Dylan Mayer chased the fly ball all the method to the warning observe and into the wall. The 6-foot-3, 210-pound sophomore misplaced his hat in the course of the violent collision.
