Ole Miss baseball upset No. 3 Arkansas to advance to the semifinals of the SEC baseball tournament. Riley Maddox and Mason Morris pitched well.

Alabama (41-16) is in play to be a regional host but lost the inside track with a series defeat last weekend and a second-round SEC Tournament exit on Wednesday. Its chances of hosting are small. Motivation for postseason play, regardless of location, is not.

Surprisingly enough, it’s not coming at Michael Massey’s expense. Still, with Hunter Renfroe getting dropped from the Royals roster on Friday, Loftin is finally going to get a shot in Kansas City after hitting .295/.451/.468 with four homers and 12 steals in 13 attempts for Triple-A Omaha.

Adrian Orbe Jr. recorded a bases-clearing single to help DePaul down Oratory 11-7 in Wayne. DePaul (16-6) took control early and led 10-1 after three innings. Liam Riley added a two-run home run for DePaul and scored a run, while Brando Del Piano had a two-run single. Oratory fell to 16-8.

Cincinnati Reds shortstop Elly De La Cruz made history on Friday night against the Chicago Cubs. With his single in the first inning on Friday, De La Cruz became the fastest player in Major League Baseball history to record 300 hits,

Joe Ryan, Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Spencer Strider are among the projected two-start pitchers for the upcoming week.

Drew Aromando made his impact felt both on the mound and at the plate in Gill St. Bernard’s clash with Mount Olive, tossing three innings of one-run ball as a pitcher while knocking in one run and coming around to score once as a batter in his team’s 8-3 road victory in Flanders.

Former two-time American League MVP Miguel Cabrera is playing professional baseball again, but not in MLB. Cabrera, 42, will be playing for the Tigres de Aragua in the Venezuelan Professional Baseball League this winter in the 2025-26 season, the club on Friday announced in a post on X.