Baseball: Wasted scoring chances cost Mississippi State in regular-season finale

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Baseball: Wasted scoring chances cost Mississippi State in regular-season finale

STARKVILLE — Michael O’Brien did all he could, racing back to the fence and timing his leap perfectly to get a glove Jackson Lovich’s fly ball. But because Mississippi State’s new center fielder was shaded over toward right-center field, the freshman who had just entered the game had a long way to go, and he was not able to alter the flight of the ball enough to keep it in play. Lovich’s two-run home run in the seventh inning gave Missouri its f…