Fantastic Game 3 showing leads LSU to series win at Alabama

The Tigers captured their fourth win in their last five SEC series on Sunday.

After losing two out of their first three SEC series, the Tigers entered Sunday’s game in search of their fourth series win out of the last five as well as their third in a row.

They did just that in a 12-3 victory over Alabama in Game 3. [autotag]Samuel Dutton[/autotag] got the start on the mound for LSU and like [autotag]Blake Money[/autotag] on Saturday night, he was pulled in the first inning of the ballgame.

He did record two outs on two hits and one run before being pulled for [autotag]Jacob Hasty[/autotag]. In the top of the first inning, LSU got out to a hot start as it scored three runs off of a two-RBI single by [autotag]Jordan Thompson[/autotag] and an RBI single by [autotag]Drew Bianco[/autotag] to make it 3-0 headed to the bottom of the first. ‘Bama scored a run against Dutton in the bottom of the first to cut the deficit to two.

That score remained until the top of the fifth inning when LSU doubled its score with a Bianco RBI single and a two-run homer by [autotag]Tyler McManus[/autotag] to make it 6-1 headed to the bottom of the fifth. In the bottom of the fifth, [autotag]Eric Reyzelman[/autotag] came into pitch for Hasty.

Hasty’s final line was four innings pitched allowing two hits, zero runs, and four strikeouts. In the top of the seventh, LSU tacked on three more runs to extend the lead to 9-1. [autotag]Tre Morgan[/autotag] reached on a fielder’s choice and Thompson scored. That was followed by another two-run McManus homer.

In the bottom of the seventh inning, Alabama scored off of a solo home run to cut the lead to 9-2. In the top of the eighth inning, (stop me if you’ve read this before) but the Tigers scored three runs for the third time today. [autotag]Gavin Dugas[/autotag] (glad to have you back, pal) doubled to start the inning, [autotag]Josh Pearson[/autotag] walked, and we got a Crews Missile to make it 12-2. That’s Dylan Crews’ third homer in the past two games.

[autotag]Riley Cooper[/autotag] came in to pitch the eighth and the ninth innings to try to close out the game. The first batter for the Tide in the ninth hit a solo homer to cut the lead to 12-3. That prompted [autotag]Devin Fontenot[/autotag] to come trotting in out of the bullpen. Fontenot was able to get out of the inning while allowing no more runs. With the win, LSU moves to 32-15 (14-10 SEC). The next game will be May 10 against Southeastern Louisiana at Alex Box Stadium with the first pitch scheduled for 6:30 p.m. CT.

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