{"id":627771,"date":"2026-03-17T08:53:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T08:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/627771\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T08:53:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T08:53:13","slug":"mississippi-state-slips-spots-in-baseball-rankings-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/627771\/","title":{"rendered":"Mississippi State slips spots in baseball rankings | Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Mississippi<\/p>\n

After losing two of three games to the Arkansas Razorbacks in a top 5 matchup, MSU dropped to No. 8 in Baseball America and No. 6 by D1Baseball. It was a relatively drastic drop for the Bulldogs as the team fell from No. 2 by Baseball America and No. 3 with D1.<\/p>\n

Arkansas moved up to No. 5 and No. 4 respectively.<\/p>\n

MSU (16-4, 1-2 SEC) had opportunities to win all three games on the road at Arkansas but squandered a couple of games. On Friday night, the Bulldogs left 12 men on base and gave up a walk off home run in the bottom of the ninth inning of a 5-4 game. MSU had tied the game in the top of the inning when Ryder Woodson hit a two-out, two-run home run, but the Razorbacks swiftly ended it on the first at-bat in the bottom of the frame.<\/p>\n

For more on this story, read our news edition from Tuesday, March 17 or\u00a0click here to subscribe to our e-edition.\u2028<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After losing two of three games to the Arkansas Razorbacks in a top 5 matchup, MSU dropped to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":627772,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2288],"tags":[3795,2309,5,2316,2313,2325,19,2310,2328,2304,2308,11816,4,2305,2303,2321,4698,17161,185,2311,2312],"class_list":{"0":"post-627771","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb-postseason","8":"tag-arkansas-razorbacks-football","9":"tag-ball-and-bat-games","10":"tag-baseball","11":"tag-baseball-competitions","12":"tag-baseball-playoffs-and-champions","13":"tag-baseball-teams","14":"tag-major-league-baseball","15":"tag-major-league-baseball-competitions","16":"tag-major-league-baseball-playoffs","17":"tag-major-league-baseball-postseason","18":"tag-major-league-baseball-teams","19":"tag-mississippi-state-bulldogs-football","20":"tag-mlb","21":"tag-mlb-playoffs","22":"tag-mlb-postseason","23":"tag-seasons-in-baseball","24":"tag-southeastern-conference","25":"tag-southeastern-conference-teams","26":"tag-sports","27":"tag-team-sports","28":"tag-turf-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=627771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/627772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}