Vanderbilt Baseball Begins Three-Game Series With Mississippi State: The Anchor – Sports Illustrated

Vanderbilt baseball goes on the road this weekend for what is a critical series in its conference slate. The Commodores travel to No. 6 Mississippi State for an opportunity to put resume-defining wins on their resume.
Vanderbilt comes into the game coming off a 5-1 loss to Indiana during its midweek game. The Commodores offense was unable to get going after what was a hot seven-game stretch of offensive production.
Mississippi State enters the series with a 17-4 record and a 1-2 record in conference play. Vanderbilt has won three of the last four regular season series against Mississippi State going back to 2018.
If Vanderbilt is going to come away with its second consecutive conference series victory, it needs to have a return to the power it showed a week ago against LSU. Vanderbilt scored at least nine runs in each of the three games against the Tigers last weekend. 
Vanderbilt and Mississippi State start the three-game series at 7 p.m. CT on SEC Network.
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Graham Baakko is a writer for Vanderbilt Commodores On SI, primarily covering football, basketball and baseball. Graham is a recent graduate from the University of Alabama, where he wrote for The Crimson White, WVUA-FM, WVUA 23 as he covered a variety of Crimson Tide sports. He also covered South Carolina athletics as a sportswriting intern for GamecockCentral.
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