Three weeks ago, David Parkinson was thrown into a role that he probably didn’t anticipate being in at the beginning of the year. With the inconsistencies that loomed in the Ole Miss rotation, he was asked to give the Rebels a chance to win in game two, and when he walked off of the mound on Saturday in the sixth inning to a warm ovation from the more than 10,000 fans at Swayze field, he’d done just that.
Parkinson’s 5.1 innings, while yielding two runs on six hits to Auburn’s lineup gave OleMiss a chance to win, and it did just that for the 30th time this year, this time by a mark of 7-4.