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In the college baseball national championship game, Mississippi State faces Vanderbilt pitcher Kumar Rocker. Here's how they can beat him. - Image credit to Vanderbilt University Athletics -

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State’s key in national title game against Kumar Rocker: Spit on it (his nasty slider, not him)
By RICK CLEVELAND - MISSISSIPPI TODAY
Wed,06/30/21-3:49PM , 964 Reads 26,417 Statewide
Baseball players call it “spitting on” a pitch. They are not talking about tobacco juice.

To spit on a pitch is to let it go by. To not chase a breaking ball out of the strike zone. Just watch it. Spit on it. Wait for a better pitch in the zone.
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Bulldogs bounce back in Dudy North, aim for first national championship
By RICK CLEVELAND - MISSISSIPPI TODAY
Wed,06/30/21-9:02AM , 860 Reads 24,941 Statewide
Mississippi State for decades stacked on decades has boasted one of the elite, most beloved college baseball programs in the country. The Diamond Dogs have been to 12 College World Series, won multiple SEC, NCAA Regional and Super Regional championships. They’ve produced dozens of Major League stars, scores of All Americans.
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Vandy takes advantage of State’s charity, takes 1-0 lead in national title series
By RICK CLEVELAND - MISSISSIPPI TODAY
Tue,06/29/21-9:01AM , 1,010 Reads 23,772 Statewide
Mississippi State faithful filled TD Ameritrade Park like a maroon-clad army Monday night for Game One of the College World Series championship round. They came ready to make noise — and they made plenty, especially after Kamren James blasted a first inning home run well over the left centerfield fence.
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Mississippi State faces defending national champion Vanderbilt’s much-feared, soon-to-be-multi-millionaire Jack Leiter.

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Vandy’s Leiter, soon to be a very rich man, presents hurdle for Bulldogs in game one of national title
Mon,06/28/21-4:53PM , 10,463 Reads 145,297 Statewide
You scratch. You claw. You somehow fight you way through three dramatic, one-run victories to get to the championship round of the College World Series. And then, who do you face?

Why, defending national champion Vanderbilt’s much-feared, soon-to-be-multi-millionaire Jack Leiter, of course.
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