FAYETTEVILLE — University of Arkansas freshman Kendall Diggs, penciled into the lineup in an SEC game for just the second time, delivered in the clutch late Saturday night.
Diggs drove a 3-2 fastball from Jack Dougherty over the wall in right field and off the Hunt Center building for a 389-foot, three-run home in the bottom of the ninth inning to send the No. 4 Razorbacks to a 6-3 win over Ole Miss before a season-high crowd of 11,736 at Baum-Walker Stadium.
Diggs’ second home run of the season, which had an exit velocity of 102 mph, was the third of the game for Arkansas, its second walk-off shot of the season and its first in an SEC game since James McCann’s three-run shot in a 4-3 win over LSU on April 9, 2011.