{"id":671190,"date":"2026-04-08T23:52:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T23:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/671190\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T23:52:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T23:52:21","slug":"billingsley-gives-bulldogs-boost-in-baseball-as-midweek-starter-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/671190\/","title":{"rendered":"Billingsley gives Bulldogs boost in baseball as midweek starter | Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Mississippi<\/p>\n

Mississippi State pitcher Chris Billingsley Jr. works during Tuesday\u2019s outing against UAB.<\/p>\n

Craig Jackson<\/p>\n

Enter Chris Billingsley Jr.<\/p>\n

Billingsley has performed well as a midweek starter the last three weeks and has been a real shot in the arm for the Bulldogs.<\/p>\n

During Tuesday\u2019s 5-3 victory over UAB, Billingsley went 3.2 innings and gave up two runs on two hits with no walks and a pair of strikeouts in 50 pitches.<\/p>\n

Without McPherson and Kirk, O\u2019Connor said Billingsley has filled the void adequately.<\/p>\n

For more on this story, read our news edition from Thursday, April 9 or\u00a0click here to subscribe to our e-edition.\u2028<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mississippi State pitcher Chris Billingsley Jr. works during Tuesday\u2019s outing against UAB. Craig Jackson Enter Chris Billingsley Jr.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":671191,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2288],"tags":[2309,5,2316,2323,2314,2317,2313,2325,2413,57,19,2310,2328,2304,2318,2308,2319,4,2305,2303,2327,2321,2324,1039],"class_list":{"0":"post-671190","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb-postseason","8":"tag-ball-and-bat-games","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-baseball-competitions","11":"tag-baseball-events","12":"tag-baseball-finals","13":"tag-baseball-games","14":"tag-baseball-playoffs-and-champions","15":"tag-baseball-teams","16":"tag-champion-seasons-in-major-league-baseball","17":"tag-los-angeles-dodgers","18":"tag-major-league-baseball","19":"tag-major-league-baseball-competitions","20":"tag-major-league-baseball-playoffs","21":"tag-major-league-baseball-postseason","22":"tag-major-league-baseball-seasons","23":"tag-major-league-baseball-teams","24":"tag-major-league-baseball-teams-seasons","25":"tag-mlb","26":"tag-mlb-playoffs","27":"tag-mlb-postseason","28":"tag-seasons-in-american-sport","29":"tag-seasons-in-baseball","30":"tag-sports-events","31":"tag-world-series"},"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\/671190","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=671190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/671191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}