2013 Omaha Run

As we are underway in the 2016 Regionals, with the Bulldogs currently sitting in the driver’s seat in their home regional, I’ve been thinking about the last time that the Bulldogs made a deep postseason run, back in 2013.  Though I had started the football uniform tracker the previous football season, I did not run a baseball uniform tracker that year.  I do remember keeping up with the uniforms, being outraged at the rainbow uniforms, and subsequently relieved when they were relegated to pre-game.  As I am traveling today, I took a look at exactly what uniforms were worn during that 2013 Omaha run.

Just as they did this year, the Bulldogs started off the 2013 Starkville Regional in the Maroon MS jerseys with white pants.  The Maroon MS jerseys were updated in 2015, so the jerseys worn back then were slightly different.  They featured a generic block number font instead of the custom “Starkville” font used in all sports by Mississippi State now.

In games 2 and 3 of the Starkville Regional, the Bulldogs wore the Maroon 85 jerseys.  The classic look for Mississippi State baseball, these were also altered in 2015 and were surprisingly never worn in 2016.  They were worn with gray pants in the winner’s bracket game victory over South Alabama and white pants in the setback vs Central Arkansas.

In the winner-take-all regional championship game, the Bulldogs busted out their beautiful white pinstripe uniforms.  These would be the signature look of the Bulldogs’ 2013 run, after Hunter Renfroe’s iconic home run vs Oregon State in Omaha.  The white pinstripes were rarely worn in 2014 and were modified, more precisely butchered, in 2015.  They did not see the field in 2016, but new, very popular, gray pinstripes did.

In the Charlottesville Super Regional, the Bulldogs were given some very ugly, templated rainbow uniforms by Adidas.  They avoided wearing them in Charlottesville by pointing out that they lacked an SEC patch.  They were worn in some early games in 2014, however.  Instead of the rainbow uniforms, the Bulldogs wore the Maroon MS jerseys in both games in Charlottesville, with gray pants in game 1 and white pants in game 2.

In Omaha, the Bulldogs wore the Maroon MS jersey with white pants as they beat Oregon State, avoiding losing in a walk off by a few feet.  In the winner’s bracket game vs Indiana, the Bulldogs wore the Maroon 85 jerseys with pinstripe pants.  In the third game, playing Oregon State again, the Bulldogs famously wore the beautiful pinstripe uniforms as they punched their ticket to the National Championship Series for the first time ever.

In the National Championship series vs UCLA, the Bulldogs tried to ride the pinstripe magic in game 1.  In game 2, they wore the Maroon 85 jerseys with gray pants as they finished the season as the second-place team in the country.

Overall, the Bulldogs stuck to a classic set of uniforms in their 2013 postseason run.  They limited themselves to 3 different jerseys and a total of 6 different combinations.  They finished the postseason 4-0 in the Maroon MS jerseys, 2-1 in the Pinstripes, and 2-2 in the Maroon 85 jerseys.