Alabama’s Brett Booth got to live every baseball player’s dream Saturday.

The junior third baseman hit a two-run, walk-off home run with two outs in the ninth inning to give the Crimson Tide a 3-2 victory over Ole Miss.

“We were just a pitch away from being on their side of things right now,” Ole Miss coach Mike Bianco said. “It was a well played and well pitched game, we were just a pitch away.”

Ole Miss (16-7, 2-3 Southeastern Conference) had scored twice in the seventh inning to grab a 2-1 lead.

Alex Yarborugh broke up a no-hit bid by Alabama’s Justin Kamplain with a leadoff single and went to second on a groundout. Will Allen drove in Yarbrough with a base hit to tie the game, and he later scored the go-ahead run on a single by Preston Overbey.

In the bottom of the ninth, Josh Rosecrans started Alabama’s winning rally with a leadoff single. Closer Brett Huber retired the next two batters, but Booth connected for his homer to left field on a two-strike pitch to win it for Alabama (9-14, 1-4).

Arkansas 8, MSU 0

A day after getting manhandled by Mississippi State, Arkansas got its revenge.

Tim Carver drove in two runs with a single, and Matt Reynolds brought in two more with a double during a six-run sixth inning that propelled the Razorbacks (21-3, 3-1 SEC) past Mississippi State (16-8, 2-3).

Arkansas’ win evened the weekend series at a game apiece. Mississippi State won Friday’s opener 11-2. The finale is today at noon in Starkville.

Saturday’s game was scoreless until the fifth inning, when Jacob Morris led off with a walk and scored on a single by Dominic Ficociello. Reynolds then doubled to left to bring in Ficociello and give Arkansas a 2-0 lead.

Two more walks and a single loaded the bases in the sixth and set Arkansas up for a big inning. Carver singled up the middle to bring in two runs, and Jacob Mahan made it 6-0 with another RBI single.

Reynolds then doubled to right field to plate two more runs and make it 8-0.

Reynolds finished the game 3-for-5, and Ficociello was 2-for-5 with an RBI and two runs scored. Arkansas pitchers Ryne Stanek and Cady Lynch combined to hold Mississippi State to just three hits.

USM 17, Houston 2

Southern Miss (14-9, 2-0 Conference USA) exploded for 13 runs in the fifth inning and crushed Houston (9-12, 0-2) in a game shortened to seven innings by the mercy rule.

Southern Miss sent 18 batters to the plate and had nine hits during the fifth inning. Brown hit a two-run homer, and Chase Fowler had four RBIs — two on a double, then two more on a triple in his second plate appearance of the inning.

Isaac Rodriguez also drove in two runs with a double in the inning, and finished the game 4-for-4 with two RBIs and three runs scored.

Mason Robbins and Ashley Graeter had three hits apiece in the game and nine USM players had at least one hit.

Jake Drehoff held Houston to two hits and two runs in seven innings to get the win. He struck out three batters and walked two.