Run production and offense have come and gone like the common cold for Ole Miss in this young 2017 season. The Rebels came out of the gate sprinting with back-to-back sweeps over ranked opponents East Carolina and UNC-Wilmington, a stretch in which the team pile up 55 runs in its first seven games. The freshman bats caught fire immediately and began on a trajectory that now seems like the polar opposite of what most thought would happen, one that has since come back down to earth a little.
The Rebels were humbled by some of the most elite pitching in college baseball in a round robin tournament in Houston and then relied on their pitching to carry the load for the next seven games after that, winning wars of attrition in low-scoring games such as a 1-0 and 2-0 affairs against Furman and a 1-0 Friday night win against Vanderbilt.