Georgia State pitcher Brandon Barker didn’t make many mistakes on Tuesday night. He stifled the Ole Miss offense and allowed just one run on two hits in 5.2 innings of work. But the one mistake he did make was in the second inning when he hung a 1-0 fastball that Kyle Watson deposited over the left field fence, which proved to be the difference in game as the Rebels squeaked by the Panthers 1-0 to snap a four- game losing streak.
“I was going down the line telling it to get up,” Watson said. “I just tired to put a good swing on it in a hitters count.