Mississippi State baseball did not have a enjoyable time within the SEC Match. After closing the common season 9-1 with a three-straight SEC sequence wins, the Diamond Dawgs made the trek east to Hoover with loads of momentum.
However you would not have recognized that with how they performed of their first spherical matchup towards Texas A&M. A horrific second inning took MSU utterly out of the sport and each side cruised the remainder of the way in which with the Bulldogs being eradicated in a 9-0 loss. State’s time in Hoover ended nearly as shortly because it began (effectively aside from the truth that the sport was delayed in a single day because of the climate).
It was an unpleasant outing that is bought many Bulldog followers annoyed, but it’s likely not a game worth overreacting to given what State has shown in recent weeks. And primarily based on historical past, there’s actually no motive to be bothered by it.
Winless SEC Match journeys have not traditionally mattered for Mississippi State
Want a motive to not overreact to State’s fast exit from the SEC Match? Leaving Hoover winless hasn’t damage Mississippi State’s postseason trajectory prior to now. In keeping with On3’s Robbie Faulk, that is the sixth time in program historical past that the Bulldogs went winless within the SEC Match. In every of the earlier 5 situations, they at the least reached a Tremendous Regional.
There are three journeys to the School World Sequence in these 5 situations, together with the 2021 nationwide championship crew. Additionally included are the 2018 interim coach-led Diamond Dawgs that, very similar to this crew, needed to go on a wild run late within the season to even make the event to start with. That crew was bounced of their first sport as effectively, and it finally meant nothing for them. A magical run nonetheless occurred.
That is under no circumstances to say the 2025 Bulldogs are Omaha-bound, neither is it to say that they’re going to even attain a Tremendous Regional. However the level is that what occurs in Hoover does not dictate success in the principle occasion. Even profitable there means actually nothing on the subject of regional efficiency. The final time the Bulldogs gained the SEC Match in 2012, they shortly exited their regional with a 1-2 exhibiting.
Mississippi State did not play effectively in Hoover, however historical past says that will not be figuring out issue for his or her postseason ceiling. At this finest, the Diamond Dawgs stay a crew that will probably be a tricky out in a regional, and their general trajectory stays constructive.
