{"id":31934,"date":"2016-03-03T13:00:37","date_gmt":"2016-03-03T19:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=31934"},"modified":"2016-03-03T12:29:50","modified_gmt":"2016-03-03T18:29:50","slug":"ole-miss-baseball-tunes-up-before-sec-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/ole-miss-baseball-tunes-up-before-sec-play\/","title":{"rendered":"Ole Miss Baseball Tunes Up Before SEC Play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The next two weeks find <strong>Ole Miss Baseball<\/strong> wrapping up its nonconference series before opening SEC play with a visit to <strong>Tennessee<\/strong>. The Rebs are coming off a 2-1 series win over then-#2 <strong>Louisville<\/strong>, which instantly thrust the Rebs from No. 21 to No. 13 in Baseball America\u2019s rankings. They moved from unranked to No. 17 in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncaa.com\/rankings\/baseball\/d1\/d1baseballcom-top-25\">D1Baseball\u2019s top 25<\/a>, as well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">A trip to <strong>Conway<\/strong>, <strong>South Carolina<\/strong> this weekend will be a telling test for the Rebels. The <strong>Coastal Carolina Tournament<\/strong> will have Ole Miss playing against the top-25 host <strong>Chanticleers<\/strong>, in addition to <strong>Cincinnati <\/strong>and <strong>Ball State<\/strong>. Then, home series against <strong>Southeast Missouri<\/strong> and <strong>Grambling State<\/strong>, followed by a two-game trip to <strong>UAB<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Tate Blackman<\/strong> leads the team with a .524 BA, a .762 SLG and only one strikeout in 21 at-bats. <strong>Brady Bramlett<\/strong> and <strong>Sean Johnson<\/strong> have both gotten off to 2-0 starts, and closer <strong>Wyatt Short<\/strong> has earned three saves without earning a run.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-14544\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14544\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"The Local Voice Ligature\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The next two weeks find Ole Miss Baseball wrapping up its nonconference series before opening SEC play with<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":251,"featured_media":24741,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[88,642,7067,4,700,2311,3,753,984],"class_list":["post-31934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-athletics","tag-baseball","tag-ms","tag-ole-miss","tag-oxford","tag-rebels","tag-sec","tag-the-local-voice","tag-tlv","tag-university"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/2015-05-14-OleMiss-TexasAM.jpg?fit=600%2C351&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/251"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}