Ole Miss will be without freshman right-handed pitcher Brady Bramlett for the remainder of this season and possibly next season as an MRI revealed a torn labrum, according to RebelGrove.com.

Complete recovery could take up to 12 months.

“It’s a long ting, more like Tommy John (surgery) from a time standpoint,” Ole Miss coach Mike Bianco told the website. “You want to get the surgery done and start the recovery, but it could cost him next season as well.”

Bramlett, of Bartlett, Tenn., is 5-1 with a 3.00 earned run average. He’s appeared in eight games, starting four. Opponents are hitting .198 against him.

I didn’t take video from this one, trying to limit exposure to the iPhone when the sprinkling started again.

It was a somber postgame as the bullpen blew another lead. This one wasn’t just a one-run lead. Aaron Greenwood came in with a 5-3 lead and a man at first and gave up a home run to his first batter to tie the game. He left it trailing 6-5, and Auburn padded that lead with two more runs against Chris Ellis.

Ellis looked good at times in his 2.2 innings, but he’s not throwing like he was before the abdominal issues forced him to miss a month.

This will go down as an Ole Miss loss against a left-hander, but the Rebels hit Auburn starter Michael O’Neal pretty good with seven hits and four runs in 4.0 innings.

It was right-hander Terrance Dedrick, the third Auburn pitcher, who shut down the Rebels with 2.2 hitless, scoreless innings. Dedrick entered the game with one out and Tanner Mathis at second and proceeded to retire Stuart Turner and Andrew Mistone, who have been the Rebels’ hottest bats of late.

Mathis had three hits tonight, as did Auston Bousfield. Austin Anderson had two hits. Turner was 1-for-4, his one hit being and RBI double. Mistone was 0-for-4.

Game 3 is tomorrow at 1. Ole Miss will try to avoid its second-straight SEC series loss.

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Tarp is on the field now. A very light rain, a mist, is falling now. The forecast indicates that the rain could move out before the official start time of 2:15. We’ll see.

Wet day at Plainsman Park

The pitchers are Ole Miss’ Mike Mayers (3-4, 2.84) vs. Auburn lefty Michael O’Neal (8-3, 2.34).

Here’s our account of the Rebels’ 6-1 win in Game 1.

One thing that didn’t get mentioned last night was Will Jamison. He didn’t start in right field field but came off the bench and went 2-for-2 reaching on a bunt single in the seventh and delivering an RBI hit up the middle in the ninth.

Cameron Dishon started in right field to give the Rebels another right-handed bat in the lineup. He was solid in the outfield but was 0-for-2 at the plate.

Jamison is a left-handed hitter. Both of his at-bats came against Auburn’s right-handed reliever Trey Cochran-Gill.

The Rebels take Game 1 behind another dominant outing from Bobby Wahl and timely hitting against a left-hander, something that has eluded them in the past. They went into the game 7-9 against lefty starters but touched Conner Kendrick and his sub-2 ERA for 10 hits, none bigger than Preston Overbey’s 3-run home run in the fourth inning. That changed the face of the game with Wahl rolling along.

Wahl went eight innings, scattering four hits with 1 run, 2 walks and 5 strikeouts. He hasn’t given up 2 earned runs in a start since March 29 at Florida.

Stuart Turner and Andrew Mistone scored ahead of Overbey. They were both 3-for-4 and had back-to-back singles three times.

Overbey turned on a change-up from Kendrick and took it over the left field monster that sits high atop a wall that is only 315 from home plate down the left field line.

Here’s Wahl:

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A little video here. Auburn is the team hitting. Off to the right you may be able to make out Mike Bianco talking with Auburn coach John Pawlowski, although Pawlowski may cover him up.

Ole Miss assistant Carl Lafferty is talking to a fan at the screen.

Today is Bianco’s birthday. He’s 46. We’ll see if the walks to the mound are any slower.

The Weather Channel predicts rain to arrive here at 6 o’clock, which would be right at first pitch. There is rain in the area, none here now. It could be a start and stop kind of night.