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Tomas Valincius Carves Up Auburn in Mississippi State’s Series-Opening Win
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Tomas Valincius Carves Up Auburn in Mississippi State’s Series-Opening Win

Mississippi State Bulldogs On SI·Taylor Hodges·25 days ago
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Some nights you can feel it from the first pitch. Tomas Valincius had that look again. No. 11 Mississippi State’s ace hasn’t been bad by any stretch the last two weekends, but he also hasn’t been the version of himself that spoiled everyone through March and early April. LSU tagged him a bit. Texas got three runs off him in five innings. Nothing alarming, just not the standard he’s set. Against sixth-ranked Auburn, he snapped right back into form in a 10-3 win Thursday night . Valincius carved through the Tigers for 6.2 innings, striking out 13 and walking nobody. He retired the first 13 batters he faced and looked completely in control from the jump. It helped that he could breathe a little after the first inning, because Bryce Chance gave him a four-run cushion with a grand slam. Once that ball cleared the wall in left, Valincius settled into a rhythm that Auburn never really disrupted.…

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