BASEBALL: SEC Tourney update

What’s great about hotel rooms is that you can make them really dark, and therefore when you get back from the ballpark at midnight you won’t be awakaned by sunlight creeping in the next morning.

I got up and started stirring about 8:30.

I suspect many Kentucky players are not stirring yet. The Wildcats defefated Alabama 9-3 last night, excuse me, this morning. The game started at 10:50 p.m. and was completed at almost 2 a.m. That’s what the 10 a.m. start time for game 1 gets you.

The Rebels and Wildcats have a scheduled start time for 8 p.m., but that’s a joke. Many games aren’t complete in three hours, and there’s a mandated 45 minutes between games.

At present, I don’t know who Kentucky is planning to pitch. UK coach John Cohen threw a reliever last night, Aaron Lovett, and I was at the stadium long enough to see Alabama rack him with four stright hits in the first, but he settled down and threw a complete game. It was his first career start.

No word on who Ole Miss will throw either, which is interesting. Ole Miss coach Mike Bianco continues to strongly support freshman Drew Pomeranz, but Pomeranz has gotten hit around pretty good in three of his last four starts. Bianco named only a Game 1 starter before the tournament began and was non-committal when asked who would start Game 2.

– PA