Omaha, NE - JUNE 29: Game three of the College World Series Championship Series between the Arizona Wildcats and the Coastal Carolina Chanticleers is under a weather delay on June 29, 2016 at TD Ameritrade Park in Omaha, Nebraska. (Photo by Peter Aiken/Getty Images) Get ready to watch the Mississippi State baseball team battle Vanderbilt one more time this season The Mississippi State baseball team needs one more win to get to Omaha. There’s only one thing standing in the Bulldogs’ way. That’s the Vanderbilt Commodores. And after last night, all Vandy needs is one more win to get to the 2018 College World Series too. Vanderbilt beat the Mississippi State baseball team in heartbreaking fashion. Now, the Bulldogs are going to have to regain composure and try to get one more win. Mississippi State is familiar with being in position to be eliminated. But the Bulldogs can also eliminate the Vanderbilt Commodores. Here’s to hoping that that’s exactly what happens when the two teams meet tonight. Game Information Who is playing? Mississippi State Bulldogs (36-27 overall, 15-15 SEC) vs Vanderbilt University Commodores (35-26 overall, 16-14 SEC) Mississippi State Bulldogs (36-27 overall, 15-15 SEC) vs Vanderbilt University Commodores (35-26 overall, 16-14 SEC) Where are they playing? The Nashville Super Regional of the NCAA Tournament in Nashville, Tennessee The Nashville Super Regional of the NCAA Tournament in Nashville, Tennessee When are they playing? June 10th at 5:00 pm central time How To Keep Up With The Game TV Channel- ESPN2 Online Streaming- WatchESPN Listen- TuneIn, Mississippi State Radio Network, HailStatePlus Live Stats- NCAA The Mississippi State baseball team has to play up to its full potential if the Bulldogs want to get to Omaha. Vanderbilt isn’t easily beaten, especially in Nashville. Last night, Mississippi State found that out the hard way. The Bulldogs pitched the entire game well, but simply couldn’t keep up at the plate. The Bulldogs have accomplished a ton this season. They have much to be proud of with how far that they’ve come. Mississippi State also has a great opportunity to continue proving people wrong. Just one more win and this season turns into a completely great one. And the Bulldogs have done it all despite incredibly difficult circumstances.<doc-sep>After losing their first game here on Friday in embarrassing fashion, the Bulldogs have impressively powered their way to the championship game. And so now here we are. Mississippi State will take on Oklahoma at noon CT Monday. If the Bulldogs win, they’re in a super regional. Lose, and they’re done. BOTTOM OF THE NINTH Gordon finished the game on the mound. He threw six innings, struck out 10 (a career-high) and allowed four earned runs. The Bulldogs won it, 13-5. TOP OF THE NINTH The Bulldogs went down 1-2-3 in the ninth. MSU 13, Oklahoma 5 BOTTOM OF THE EIGHTH Oklahoma's Cade Harris launched Gordon's 76th pitch of the evening deep over the right field fence for a homer, but there was nobody on base. MSU 13, Oklahoma 5 TOP OF THE EIGHTH The Bulldogs missed a scoring opportunity when Rowdey Jordan struck out with runners at first and second. MSU 13, Oklahoma 4 BOTTOM OF THE SEVENTH Oklahoma picked up a couple of runs on a towering home run to left off the bat of Domenic Derenzo. MSU 13, Oklahoma 4 TOP OF THE SEVENTH Jake Mangum drove in one run by grounding into a fielder's choice and Tanner Allen launched a three-run bomb way over the left field wall. MSU 13, Oklahoma 2 BOTTOM OF THE SIXTH Oklahoma added a run on a double down the right field line, but that was it. MSU 9, Oklahoma 2 TOP OF THE SIXTH The Bulldogs stranded runners on first and second. MSU 9, Oklahoma 1 BOTTOM OF THE FIFTH Gordon struck out the side in order. MSU 9, Oklahoma 1 TOP OF THE FIFTH Dustin Skelton reached after he was hit by a pitch, but he was stranded on third base. MSU 9, Oklahoma 1 BOTTOM OF THE FOURTH Cole Gordon relieved McQuary and inherited two runners on. He got a double-play and a ground out to get out of the jam unscathed. MSU 9, Oklahoma 1 TOP OF THE FOURTH Hunter Stovall started the inning with a single, but Mississippi State didn't do anything else. MSU 9, Oklahoma 1 BOTTOM OF THE THIRD Oklahoma scored one on a sacrifice fly, but McQuary again successfully navigated through a jam; the first batters reached base. MSU 9, Oklahoma 1 TOP OF THE THIRD Mississippi State's offense exploded in this inning. Rowdey Jordan crushed a pitch and sent it over the right field wall for a long two-run homer. Foscue and Luke Alexander each added RBI-singles. Foscue then scored on Jordan Westburg's sacrifice fly. Mangum cracked a RBI-single. Then, Oklahoma's right fielder failed to catch a routine fly ball and two more runners scored. MSU 9, Oklahoma BOTTOM OF THE SECOND Oklahoma loaded the bases, Gary Henderson sent Cole Gordon to the bullpen, but McQuary got out of the jam. He is at 54 pitches, though. MSU 1, Oklahoma TOP OF THE SECOND Justin Foscue doubled to start the inning, moved to third on a ground out and scored with a head-first slide on Dustin Skelton's sacrifice fly. MSU 1, Oklahoma BOTTOM OF THE FIRST INNING Denver McQuary navigated a two-on, two-out jam by striking out the final batter of the inning with a pitch in the dirt. MSU 0, Oklahoma TOP OF THE FIRST INNING Mississippi State squandered a chance to do damage. Jake Mangum hit a lead-off single. Then Rowdey Jordan followed with a bloop-single to left. But the Bulldogs were retired after that, leaving Mangum at third and Jordan at first. MSU 0, Oklahoma 0 DELAY, PART II The game will start at 6:35 p.m. CT, it was announced. DELAY The game will be delayed because lightning is approaching. There was no announcement regarding a time for first pitch. PREGAME After beating Samford earlier in the day, Mississippi State will take on Oklahoma at 5 p.m. CT (ESPN2). The Bulldogs need to win to stay alive. If they do, they play Oklahoma again on Monday. Denver McQuary will start for the Bulldogs despite throwing 16 pitches to record two outs against Samford. Here's a look at the Mississippi State lineup. Of note, Jordan Westburg is starting at designated hitter after missing time with a hamstring issue. Dustin Skelton will catch again despite catching the entire first game on Saturday. Oklahoma's lineup again doesn't feature its two best hitters, Kyler Murray and Steele Walker.<doc-sep>Tanner Allen’s double in the 11th inning drove in the go-ahead run and sparked a four-run rally as Mississippi State outlasted Vanderbilt 10-6 on Sunday night to advance to the College World Series. Allen’s line drive into the right-field corner scored pinch-hitter Josh Hatcher, who had walked to lead off the inning. Mississippi State (37-27), which will be headed to Omaha for the first time since 2013, later scored a second run when Justin Foscue drew a bases-loaded walk to drive in Rowdey Jordan, who had reached on an infield single. Luke Alexander followed with a two-run single to push the Bulldogs’ lead to four runs. Vanderbilt (35-27) had rallied from three runs down in the ninth inning to force extra innings in Nashville. Advertisement Texas 4, Tennessee Tech 2: The most dangerous offensive team in the country was rendered harmless. Tennessee Tech managed just three hits, a season low, against Texas pitchers Chase Shugart and Blair Henley as the Longhorns evened the series 1-1. Game 3 is Monday in Austin. Kody Clemens drove in two runs, one with his 23rd home run of the season for Texas (41-21). Tennessee Tech (53-11) leads the nation in several categories, including runs (10-plus a game) and home runs. The Golden Eagles managed two hits and one unearned run in six innings against Shugart (6-3). The three total hits in the game were fewest for Texas Tech since Feb. 27, 2015, when they had one hit against Northern Illinois. Auburn 3, Florida 2: Auburn got a number of clutch performances from freshmen with its season on the line. And one huge hit from a fifth-year senior. Luke Jarvis’ RBI single in the bottom of the ninth gave Auburn (43-22) a victory over the top-seeded Gators and set up a Game 3 on Monday in Gainesville. Florida (46-19), the defending champion, hasn’t lost consecutive games at home since April 2017. Advertisement Tanner Burns and Cody Greenhill, two freshman All-American pitchers, held the Gators in check throughout the day. Duke 11, Texas Tech 2: Max Miller drove in four runs as Duke avoided elimination again. The Blue Devils (45-17), who are trying to reach their first World Series since 1961, had to win four consecutive games to take the Athens Regional after losing their opener there. They started their first-ever super regional with a 6-4 loss to Texas Tech (43-18). Graeme Stinson (5-1) threw seven scoreless innings to help Duke force Game 3 in Lubbock on Monday. Advertisement South Carolina 8, Arkansas 5: LT Tolbert hit a grand slam to help South Carolina (37-25) even the series. Tolbert’s blast highlighted a five-run fifth inning for the Gamecocks, who will face the Razorbacks (43-19) in a deciding third game on Monday in Fayetteville.<doc-sep>
Omaha, NE - JUNE 26: A general view of the stadium during the National Anthem of game one of the College World Series Championship Series between the LSU Tigers and the Florida Gators on June 26, 2017 at TD Ameritrade Park in Omaha, Nebraska. (Photo by Peter Aiken/Getty Images) Mississippi State Baseball Is One Win Away From The 2018 College World Series by Ethan Lee Elijah MacNamee has continued to amaze and step up when the Mississippi State baseball team needs him There’s no other way to put it. Elijah MacNamee is quickly becoming a Mississippi State baseball legend. Time and time again, when the Bulldogs have needed a clutch play in a big moment, MacNamee excels and carries MSU across the finish line. What Elijah MacNamee is doing right now for Mississippi State baseball is going to be talked about for years to come. This postseason run for MacNamee has been incredible and isn’t something that MSU fans should take for granted. The 6-4, 209 pound Cypress, Texas native is having a phenomenal stretch as of late. The Blinn College transfer has performed far better than anyone could have hoped in the postseason. Especially given how he played for most of the year in 2018. Through the first half of the 2018 season, MacNamee was in and out of the starting lineup. It wasn’t until April 18th, at Memphis, that MacNamee’s name became a permanent fixture in the starting lineup. Now, it looks like his name will continue to be there for as long as Mississippi State can put it there. MacNamee entered into that Memphis game with a .246 batting average That’s decent, but it’s certainly not anything remarkable. You don’t really go bragging about a .246 batting average. MacNamee also wasn’t doing well in producing doubles, triples, or home runs. He had exactly zero of all three up to that point. Now, it seems incredibly strange that such a productive bat would be completely incapable of getting an extra base hit. But that’s what was happening. It wasn’t until April 21st, against Arkansas, that MacNamee got his first double of the season. Then, on May 6th against Alabama, MacNamee hit his first home run of the year. We’re still waiting for MacNamee’s first triple, but he’s been on a tear ever since then. When MacNamee got that first double, his batting average sat at .250. When he got that first home run, it was elevated up to .270. And since then, that batting average has only improved even further. MacNamee is hitting with a .329 batting average right now. That’s good for second on the team. MacNamee has been phenomenal in the past month The closing stretch of the season helped spark a run for Elijah MacNamee. From May 6th to June 8th, MacNamee has a total of eight home runs. Five of those have come in the NCAA Tournament alone. And as it just so happens, two of those home runs are walk-off home runs. The first came against the Florida State Seminoles when MacNamee eliminated them from their own regional. The second came last night when MacNamee silenced the Vandy whistler and ended the Commodores’ comeback attempt. In that same timeframe, MacNamee’s batting average has skyrocketed up to an insane average of .418. He’s not playing around and he’s consistently been there whenever the Mississippi State Bulldogs have needed him this postseason. The Mississippi State baseball team has needed someone to step up and help carry this team forward. Elijah MacNamee has done that multiple times. Between his huge home runs and impressive batting average when MSU needed a spark the most, MacNamee has become a legend for the Mississippi State Bulldogs.