were a little well little league even if it was partly true. Mac took the game back last night pure and simple after throwing 9 balls. If anything, we let them back in it by leaving him in too long in the 6th.

Q: What happened to Mississippi State's starter Christian MacLeod during the third inning that allowed him to get on track?
SS: "I don't think he got back on track. We let them. We didn't try to execute offensively the entire night, starting with the first inning ? Of those three punch outs or three strikeouts in a row [during the third inning], we probably chased eight balls. That how we started through the first-third of the game."

"We chose to not hit early in the game, and that fed into him. He didn't have a ton of command early. He saw that we were not disciple. He was able to pitch up in the zone, and we kept chasing it. So, it was really more of us letting him off the hook. We had the middle part of our lineup right there. If we'd get two sac flies [during the third inning with runners on second and third with no outs], that game would have been different. That's what I was hoping for ? two sac flies there and maybe that would settle us down. We just couldn't do it."