Postgame Reactions: Valincius powers Bulldogs past Bearcats

And, hey, it wasn't pretty at the end there, but a good win against a really good Cincinnati team.

Yeah, a 10 to five win that could've been much bigger had the Bulldogs been able to take advantage of some opportunities earlier in the ballgame.

Stranded a lot of guys, but then finally got that breakthrough in the bottom of the fifth inning.

But this was a game where Mississippi State was the better team.

Yeah.

They had more chances, they just didn't convert them all.

But I think what you're seeing is an offense that's really starting to come together at the right time.

13 hits in the game.

You strand 12-

Yeah

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but you also score 10 runs.

And hey, man, we talked coming into this week that, about how Mississippi State was going to have to have improvement in the starting pitching.

[laughs] And we gotten it.

13 and a third innings from your starters, 20 strikeouts, two walks, less than 10 hits.

Yeah.

It's, uh, you, you got a real gem tonight against a good offensive club.

Well, how many weekends have we had in SEC play where we didn't get this the entire weekend from your starting pitching?

From any of them.

For a lot of your starting pitching for the weekend.

All right, how big tonight? Let's go back and look at this one, how it, kind of unfolded.

You got the solo home run from Ace Reese in the first inning, and that kind of got the crowd into it a little bit.

And I know that was the only run you scored there for a little bit of time, but you kept everybody engaged, and it was a really tight game early.

But I thought for the most part, that was a big swing by Ace just to kind of get everybody into it.

I thought the crowd was very good tonight.