The ball sizzled past the flailing bat as Dallas Woolfolk’s momentum carried him off the mound and into his customary come-at-me-bro amble. The miles-per-hour box on the scoreboard flashed 94.
A one-inning midweek outing against an Arkansas-Pine Bluff team with an RPI on the wrong side of 250 isn’t usually something worth talking about. But for Woolfolk, who’s gone from one of the country’s preeminent closers to a scuffling reserve arm in the span of two months, Wednesday’s 1-2-3, two-strikeout eighth inning sure looked like a step in the right direction. It’s among a couple of developments that give hope that Ole Miss’ struggling bullpen may be shaping up in time for a postseason run.