Only yesterday's game cancellation could silence the Minnesota bats, but the attention for the Penn State baseball team was "Mee" first.

During Saturday's two games, the Nittany Lion pitchers relinquished a combined 22 hits to the Golden Gopher hitters. The biggest shot was a two-run homer to right-center by Mike Mee, who finished a triple short of the cycle in Saturday's second game.

Scott Gaffney, who watched the first three games of the series from his usual shortstop vantage point, noticed how Mee leans in on the plate, making it necessary to pound the zone outside to get ahead and then try to bust him inside.

"Just hope he doesn't guess right, or see it and throw his hands at it," he said. "It's tough with the aluminum."

While "Call on Me" by Eric Prydz played at Medlar Field at Lubrano Park immediately after his 380-foot bomb, Penn State head coach Robbie Wine said while the Gopher hitters were patient and disciplined at the plate, his players were not.

And while yesterday's finale was canceled -- and Gaffney never got a chance to show what he had learned for the mound -- Penn State never could have never hoped to match Minnesota's hot bats, either.

Someone like Gaffney, whose two hits on the weekend raised his average to .175, was just starting to break out of a rut after being newly placed in the two-hole. Those hitting behind him, in the three, four and five holes, batted in zero runs on Saturday. Gaffney cited poor bunting and an inability to advance runners, contributing to Penn State's ills.

Getting Minnesota out was a whole other issue.

"It's tough to pitch to those guys," Gaffney said. "They come up with a plan, they know what you are going to try to do, and you know what they are going to do. They are going to battle ya. We are going to watch that, learn from them and keep taking pitches."

But after this weekend's series, Mee raised his batting average to .489, and Wine had also seen enough to change his strategy.

"Don't pitch to him," Wine said after Saturday's two games. "Don't throw strikes to him. Walk him."

Mee, whether it was a 90-plus mile an hour fastball from reliever Gary Amato that he took yard or the 70-mph breaking pitches he sprayed around the field from starter Seth Whitehill, feasted off the Lions' arms. All he said he displayed was patience.

In Friday night's game, Mee didn't get a single hit in four at-bats, including two strikeouts. But on Saturday, he responded with five hits, and four runs batted in, putting the ball in play each at bat.

By no means, though, did Mee ever expect his batting average to almost reach an average of one hit per every two at-bats.

"No, it's a little surprising," Mee said. "I try not to look at the numbers too often. I just try to go out here every at-bat and do what I can to help the team. Fortunately, I have been lucky to get a few good breaks, and I'll keep trying to do that every day."

And, yes, Mee still doesn't have the total hits to match the number of times he has heard joke about his last name, even if "Call on Me" was just a coincidence.

"I get a little bit, you know, and it's all in fun," Mee said with a laugh. "There are some fun things you can do with it, so, I got a little bit."