Let’s preface this by stating that Louisiana-Monroe is a bad, bad baseball team. They came into Tuesday night’s game against Ole Miss with a 12-32 record and an RPI rank in the 230s. Still, the ungodly beatdown the Rebs delivered at Swayze Field was a surprise, especially considering ULM actually led 7-3 midway through the fourth inning.
What followed was 18 unanswered runs over the course of three frames. The Rebs put up five runs before ULM could record an out in the bottom of the fourth. They added four more in the fifth, then popped off for nine in the sixth, when Rebel first baseman Nick Fortes hit two homers in the same damn inning.