Today's pitching matchup is an absolute beauty of contrast. ASU's Josh Satow and Mississippi's Lance Lynn are definitely not long-lost brothers separated at birth.

Satow is generously listed at 5'9" and 150 bills and throws a fastball that peaks in the mid-80's. With a fastball that slow, you'd think it would be hard to have a good changeup, but Satow's change is devastating. On the year, he's 12-3 with a 2.56 ERA that seems impossible in this park. He has fanned 112 in 123 innings, and opposing hitters bat only .236 against him.

ASU stats

Lynn is 6'5" and 260, and possesses a mid-90's fastball that he relies on heavily. Last night's Rebel starter Will Kline had a lot of success getting ASU hitters to chase his off-speed stuff, so we'll see if Lynn adjusts his style or just continues throwing bullets. Throwing bullets has worked fine so far this season, as Lynn's 8-4 record and 2.55 ERA are best explained by 137 strikeouts and a miniscule .205 opponents' batting average.

Ole Miss stats

A couple of other notes on last night's game:

If ESPN and the NCAA would have allowed me to blog last night, I would have mentioned this incident:

Seems a concession grill got out of hand early in the game and fire was shooting up several feet high, so someone finally turned a hose on it. I actually snapped that picture after the smoke was REEEEEALLY bad.

I'm sitting next to Ole Miss radio man David Kellum for these games. He's a great guy and a great announcer. He has been announcing Ole Miss baseball since he was 19 years old, and there were a lot of ugly seasons in the pre-Bianco era, so this guy deserves to see the Rebels in Omaha one of these years.

Ole Miss coach Mike Bianco had relievers ready in the pen in the ninth. Cody Satterwhite was so ready that he was watching, not throwing, during the final three at-bats, but...

Bianco's bullpen has burned him several times this season, which partially explains the Rebels' miserable 8-14 record in one-run games.

If you went to bed early last night, here's a 1-minute vid clip of the ending. Ole Miss fans, be warned, this video may contain disturbing images.

ASU pitched Brian Flores two innings last night. Flores is ASU's third starter and was expected to be available Monday, so if Ole Miss wins today, tomorrow is completely up in the air.

Speaking of up in the air, the temp is really only about 102 with single-digit humidity. Though this guy can't be enjoying the heat...

...there's a chance for worse weather tomorrow. My new girlfriend Caribe Devine forecasts a small a chance of a thunderstorm and "areas of blowing dust in the evening."

Mississippi, have you ever seen a haboob?

I like both of these teams, but I'd just as soon not be sitting on the roof of Packard Stadium tomorrow and seeing that come at me.

Finally, something completely unrelated to baseball.

For the second time this year, I make a car reservation, check-in, and head to the lot to find one of these:

Oh, the humanity.

I'm embarrassed driving one of these, and pulling up to a stop light is mortifying. I usually just look straight ahead and try not to make eye contact with any other drivers, but if that happens, I want to roll down my window and explain that it's a rental.

Please, please, please, car rental agencies, get these duds out of your fleet. You won't even rent to anyone under 25 years of age, so quit foisting these poorly-made pimp-mobiles on your renters and making us look like idiotic, over-aged, hip-hop wannabes.

Thank you. Whew.

Needed to be said.

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