PEARL — Southern Miss came into Tuesday with a ton of confidence and an eight-game winning streak against Southeastern Conference opponents.

It might have kept some of the former, but watched the latter disappear in a hailstorm of runs and hits.

Nathaniel Lowe went 4-for-5 with two doubles, three RBIs and two runs scored, and Mississippi State scored in six different innings to rout Southern Miss 13-5 Tuesday night at Trustmark Park.

Mississippi State (18-7-1) won for the sixth time in eight games by banging out 18 hits. Jacob Robson went 3-for-5 with a triple, two RBIs and three runs scored, Elih Marrero had three hits and scored three runs, and eight of the Bulldogs’ nine starters had at least one hit. Six of them had multiple hits.

“We had a really good offensive night,” Mississippi State coach John Cohen said. “We had some things fall our way and that happens sometimes in baseball. On the mound, we didn’t walk anybody. That’s a huge stat. That’s a winning stat.”

The Bulldogs erased a 2-1 deficit by scoring four times in the fourth inning. From there, the lead was expanded with a single score in the fifth inning and two runs in the sixth.

Lowe had a two-run double in the fourth inning. Reid Humphreys had an RBI double in the sixth.

After Southern Miss clawed back for three runs in the seventh inning to make it 8-5 — Dylan Burdeaux and Tracy Hadley each had an RBI single — Mississippi State dropped the hammer.

The Bulldogs scored a run on a wild pitch and an RBI single by Humphreys in the bottom of the seventh, then Lowe had another RBI double as part of a three-run rally in the eighth that made it 13-5.

“They’re a very good club and a very offensive club. So it was important for us to put pressure on those guys. One through nine, I thought our kids took really good swings and had a great approach,” Cohen said.

In the game, Mississippi State scored nine runs with two outs.

“Our kids were just simplifying with two outs, and especially with two strikes,” Cohen said. “If you try to hit a ball hard and put a ball in play and get it to the middle of the field, they’re doing a good job with that.”

Southern Miss (19-7) had 11 hits in the game. Hadley homered — his first of the year, which made him the 11th different USM player with a home run this season — and finished 2-for-5 with two RBIs. Burdeaux had two hits, Tim Lynch had three, and Nick Dawson doubled and scored a run.

Seven of USM’s 11 hits, however, came from the first three batters in the order. The Nos. 7-9 hitters went a combined 1-for-10.

Mississippi State’s pitchers also did not walk a batter after issuing 10 free passes in the team’s previous game against Georgia, and struck out 10.

Reliever Ryan Rigby (3-0) threw 2 2/3 innings of scoreless ball to get the win. Humphreys, who started the game as the designated hitter, pitched the last two innings in relief and had four strikeouts.

“Nine innings of baseball without walking somebody is exactly what we needed,” Cohen said.

Southern Miss used nine pitchers, none of whom threw more than two innings. Cody Livingston (1-2), the second in line, allowed four runs on four hits in 1 2/3 innings and took the loss.

As a whole, Southern Miss’ pitching staff walked five batters and struck out six.