Outfielder Jordan Beck went 1-for-3 against LSU. Beck recorded a triple, one run, two RBIs and one walk in the contest.
Following the game, Vols’ head coach Tony Vitello discussed Beck’s performance.
“He’d been the same guy for four weeks in my opinion,” Vitello said of Beck. “Last night, I think was right on pitches and pulled off them. Other than that a couple balls at Starkville were absolutely scorched, you just didn’t get anything out of them. A couple of big home runs. I said it last night, so he’s fine.
“He’s filling a big presence in that lineup, so you know, either him or Drew Gilbert, or Jake Rucker, for us last year. I mean Seth Stephenson, all he’s got to do is draw one walk, get on base, hit by pitch one time. Each guy, you can quantify a quality day different for each and you’re gonna have really high standards and say, ‘Oh, get a bunch of hits’. For him, just filling that threshold with that presence. I’ll take that all day long, and to be nice, if no one wants to draft him, we’ll take him next year in that spot too.”
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