Anchor Drop, September 4, 2019: Getting Ready for Purdue

Good morning.

Ahead of Vanderbilt’s game Saturday at Purdue, Commodore coach Derek Mason had his weekly press conference, which you can see below:

(If you’re too lazy to watch, here’s our recap. You can also see the new depth chart.)

Over at the Tennessean Adam Sparks wrote about what really went wrong in Riley Neal’s first start at Vanderbilt.

From the opposite perspective, Hammer and Rails (SB Nation’s Purdue blog) gives us its own depth chart and five things to look for.

Soccer’s Haley Hopkins is your SEC Offensive Player of the Week, and Ella Shamburger is the Defensive Player of the Week.

Three Vanderbilt players are ranked among Baseball America’s top 50 prospects for the 2020 MLB Draft. OF Austin Martin is ranked #3, while pitchers Jake Eder and Tyler Brown rank 36th and 38th, respectively.

Scoreboard

MLB: Orioles 4, Rays 2 (Game 1) ... Yankees 10, Rangers 1 ... Rays 2, Orioles 0 (Game 2) ... Phillies 6, Reds 2 ... Nationals 11, Mets 10 ... Marlins 5, Pirates 4 ... White Sox 6, Indians 5 ... Twins 6, Red Sox 5 ... Braves 7, Blue Jays 2 ... Brewers 4, Astros 2 ... Cardinals 1, Giants 0 ... Cubs 6, Mariners 1 ... Royals 6, Tigers 5 ... Diamondbacks 2, Padres 1 ... A’s 7, Angels 5 ... Dodgers 5, Rockies 3.

FIBA World Cup: Australia 81, Senegal 68 ... New Zealand 93, Montenegro 83 ... Dominican Republic 70, Germany 68 ... Czech Republic 89, Japan 76 ... Lithuania 92, Canada 69 ... Brazil 79, Greece 78 ... France 103, Jordan 64 ... United States 93, Turkey 92.