Mississippi State's Tanner Allen (Aaron Fitt)

Fitt Bits: Takeaways From Starkville

STARKVILLE, Miss. — Chris Lemonis said his Mississippi State team was “pissed” after its 1-0 loss to Southern Miss on Friday night — and so was he. Every series matters, but the Bulldogs won’t deny that they wanted this rivalry series even more after the way the Golden Eagles swept them to open the 2018 campaign.

“You know what happened last year, you know that they swept us,” MSU sophomore first baseman Tanner Allen said. “So when they beat us Friday night, we thought, ‘Man, we need to get them two in a row now.’ We came out Saturday night[…]