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Auburn vs. North Alabama: How to watch Auburn’s mid-week clash

The Tigers are looking to build off their series win over Georgia.

Auburn baseball will host the North Alabama Lions Tuesday in Plainsman Park, and if you’re wondering how you can watch the action live, you’ve come to the right place.

Auburn (16-7-1, 2-4 SEC) is looking to win their second game this season against the Lions (5-17, 0-6 ASUN). The teams first met on Feb. 21 with the Tigers cruising to a 13-1 win in seven innings.

The Tigers are coming off a 2-1 series win over the Georgia Bulldogs this past weekend but are looking to put an ugly 24-7 loss in game three behind them.

“We have another critical week,” head coach [autotag]Butch Thompson[/autotag] said. “Now that it’s been 48 hours, we must look ahead and figure out the strategies to help us win another week that’s in front of us.”

Below, you will find everything you need to know ahead of the game between Auburn and North Alabama, including a broadcast guide, a projected pitching matchup, and players to watch.

Auburn falls apart in eighth inning, gets crushed 24-7 by Georgia

The Bulldogs scored 16 runs in the eighth inning to put the game away.

Auburn once again erased an early lead Saturday against the Georgia Bulldogs but unlike the first two games of the series, the Bulldogs kept adding on and crushed the Tigers 24-7 in Plainsman Park.

Auburn (6-7-1, 2-4 SEC) trailed just 8-7 entering the eighth inning but the pitching staff came unraveled, surrendering eight hits and issuing eight free passes as the Bulldogs scored 16 runs to take command of the game and end any chances of Auburn completing their third straight comeback win.

Charlie Condon walked to lead off the inning and scored after consecutive singles by Parks Harber and Corey Collins to make it 9-7. A four-pitch walk to Will David loaded the bases with nobody out.

A second-straight walk brought another run home before Mason LaPlante broke the game up with a two-RBI single to make it 12-7. They kept adding on as their next eight batters reached safely to make it 20-7.

Auburn needed to cut the deficit to under 10 in the bottom of the eighth inning to prevent a run-rule loss but was unable to do so.

For the third time in the series, Auburn fell behind early. This time Georgia did their damage at the top of the first. Ben Anderson led the game off with a double and scored two batters later when Condon singled him home.

Harber gave them some breathing room next when he belted a two-run homer over the left field wall to give them an early 3-0 lead. Connor Tate opened the third inning with a solo home run to make it a 4-0 game.

After the next three Bulldog hitters reached base to load the bases with one out, [autotag]Butch Thompson[/autotag] replaced freshman starter [autotag]Zach Crotchfelt[/autotag] with [autotag]Christian Hernandez[/autotag]. The right-hander struck out Sebastian Murillo but walked Cole Wagner to give the Bulldogs a 5-0 lead.

Auburn started chipping away in the bottom of the inning with a two-out rally. [autotag]Bryson Ware[/autotag] got things started with a single before [autotag]Ike Irish[/autotag] was hit by a pitch. After Georgia failed to get Ware out in a rundown, [autotag]Justin Kirby[/autotag] hit a shallow blooper into right field to score Ware and make it a 5-1 game.

The Tigers got another run back in the fourth after [autotag]Nate LaRue[/autotag] walked and advanced on a wild pitch and scored on a single by [autotag]Caden Green[/autotag]. Kason Howell kept the rally going with a bunt single but Auburn was unable to get another run across and left two more runners stranded.

The Bulldogs struck again when Parks led the fifth inning off with a double and David singled him home to make it a 6-2 lead. Thompson once again went to his bullpen after that, this time calling for Parker Carlson.

Georgia once again loaded the bases after an error by [autotag]Bryson Ware[/autotag] and Carlson walked a batter. The Bulldogs took advantage of the opportunity with a two-RBI single by LaPlante to make it 8-2 and break the game open.

The Tigers chased Georgia starter Liam Sullivan in the fifth inning after Kirby singled and Bobby Pierce reached on an infield single. Cooper McMurray entered as a pinch hitter and smoked a double to right field to make it 8-4 and get Auburn back in the game.

Auburn’s offense caught fire in the sixth inning. Howell walked to start the inning and Cole Foster doubled to bring Ware up with two runners in scoring position and nobody out. Ware smashed his 11th homer of the season to left center to make it an 8-7 game and seize the momentum for Auburn.

It would not last as the Bulldogs went on to score 16 runs in the eighth inning and prevent Auburn from sweeping the series.

Auburn walks it off in series opener with Georgia

Auburn trailed Georgia by three runs heading to the 9th inning, but a walk-off walk in the 11th inning sealed the come-from-behind win.

It took 11 innings, but it all came down to a walk in the Auburn Tigers series-opening 7-6 win over the Georgia Bulldogs.

“I didn’t ask for a lot this week,” head coach [autotag]Butch Thompson[/autotag] said following the game. “I just asked for these guys to kind of connect with one another. I asked the guys what it really means to stay in the fight and to keep punching back. We thought we took more punches than we really delivered last week. That ninth is a good symbol of hanging around and staying in there.”

[autotag]Tommy Vail[/autotag] got the start for Auburn. He pitched five innings, allowing four runs on seven hits, walking two batters and striking out seven. [autotag]Will Cannon[/autotag] ended up with the win, pitching the final three innings. He allowed one run off of one hit, walked two batters and struck out three.

Kolten Smith got the start for Georgia. He tossed 3.1 innings, allowing one run off of two hits. Kyle Greenler ended up with the loss for the Bulldogs in 0.2 innings of work, allowing one run off of two hits and walking two batters, one of them being [autotag]Carter Wright[/autotag] to end the game.

Georgia took a 3-0 lead in the fourth inning. [autotag]Ike Irish[/autotag] got the scoring started for Auburn in the bottom of that inning with a double that scored [autotag]Cole Foster[/autotag]. [autotag]Connor Green[/autotag] tacked on another run for the Tigers in the fifth inning with a solo shot to left field.

Georgia added another run in the top of the sixth inning. [autotag]Bryson Ware[/autotag] hit a solo home run in the bottom of that inning to bring the Tigers within one.

The Bulldogs added on two more runs in the top of the ninth inning to extend their lead to three. Auburn refused to go down quietly, however. Ware doubled down the right-field line to score Foster and [autotag]Kason Howell[/autotag]. [autotag]Justin Kirby[/autotag] reached on an error that allowed Ware to score.

The next run came in the bottom of the 11th inning when Wright was walked, allowing Irish to score.

Auburn will be back in action tomorrow night for the second game of the series. First pitch is set for 6:00 p.m. CT.

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Auburn vs. Georgia: How to watch Auburn’s SEC home opener

Auburn is looking for its first SEC win of the season.

Auburn baseball will welcome the Georgia Bulldogs to Plainsman Park for the Tigers’ second SEC series of the season this week, and if you’re wondering how you can watch the action live, you’ve come to the right place.

Auburn (14-6-1, 0-3 SEC) is looking to pick up its first SEC win of the season after getting swept by No. 3 Arkansas to open SEC play last weekend. The Tigers bounced back with a 6-5 win over South Alabama Tuesday to get back in the win column.

The Bulldogs (14-7, 0-3 SEC) also got swept in their first SEC series, dropping three games to No. 11 South Carolina. They also bounced back with a win during the week, taking down Georgia State.

“This is good, tough and hard like every year I’ve ever been a part of this league,” head coach [autotag]Butch Thompson[/autotag] said of the series. “This team just needs to understand that, embrace it really. We overuse ‘stay in the fight’, that’s kind of our deal, but you have to be in the ring and you have to throw some back. It’s not just cover up and take punches. This league is built around your ability to throw punches back. That’s what I want to see out of our ballclub.”

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Below, you will find everything you need to know ahead of this weekend’s series between Auburn and Georgia, including a broadcast guide, a projected pitching matchup, and players to watch.

Auburn vs. South Alabama: Game preview, how to listen to Tuesday’s game in Montgomery

Auburn looks to get back on track Tuesday night against an in-state rival.

The Auburn Tigers make the short trip to Montgomery on Tuesday to face in-state foe South Alabama, and if you’re wondering how to watch the action live, you have come to the right place.

The Auburn Tigers are looking to shake off a three-game sweep at No. 3 Arkansas last weekend, and their first opportunity comes Tuesday night in neutral site action with South Alabama.

The Tigers only led once in their series at Arkansas and were outscored, 21-5 over the three-game stretch. South Alabama faired just as well in their Sun Belt Conference opening series by losing three games to Georgia Southern in Statesboro.

Head coach [autotag]Butch Thompson[/autotag] says that Tuesday will be a great opportunity to erase last weekend’s struggles and to keep working on themselves.

“We are capable of playing a better game,” Thompson said Monday. “We are capable of doing more. We have to realize that, understand that and not sit around and feel sorry for ourselves. We’ll get back on that field and keep working.”

Below, you will find everything you need to know for Tuesday’s game between Auburn and South Alabama at Riverwalk Stadium in Montgomery, including a broadcast guide, pitching matchup, and players to watch.

Auburn baseball vs. Georgia Tech: How to watch/stream Tuesday’s game at Plainsman Park

The Tigers look to get back on track Tuesday by facing long-time rival Georgia Tech.

The Auburn Tigers host Georgia Tech on Tuesday at Plainsman Park, and if you’re wondering how you can watch the action live, you’ve come to the right place

After dropping their first series of the season last weekend to Southeastern Louisiana, Auburn (12-3-1) is looking to win back momentum ahead of this weekend’s trip to Arkansas by playing long-time rival Georgia Tech (13-3) in a midweek game on the Plains. It will be a great time for Auburn to showcase its skills, as Tuesday’s game will be shown to a national audience via SEC Network.

Georgia Tech will be the third team from a Power Five conference to visit Auburn this season, as the Tigers have also played weekend series’ with Indiana and USC. Auburn head coach [autotag]Butch Thompson[/autotag] feels that his team will work to find success against the Yellow Jackets on Tuesday.

“It’s not who you play but how you play,” Thompson said. “There’s only one standard to play, and that’s as good as we can play.”

Auburn will look to Tommy Vail to keep the Yellow Jackets in line on the mound. Vail struck out eight batters in 5.2 innings of work in last Tuesday’s 4-1 win over UAB, holding the Blazers scoreless. Vail has allowed just one hit in 13.1 innings and has a current streak of 9.2 innings of no-hit baseball.

Ahead of Tuesday’s game between Auburn and Georgia Tech, here’s a look at everything you need to know including a broadcast guide, a projected starting lineup, and the game’s pitching matchup.

Auburn baseball vs. Southeastern Louisiana: How to watch/listen to this weekend’s series

Auburn gears up for a rematch with Southeastern Louisiana for the final nonconference weekend series of the season.

The No. 25 Auburn Tigers host Southeastern Louisiana for a three-game series this weekend at Plainsman Park, and if you’re wondering how you can watch the action live, you’ve come to the right place.

In the final nonconference weekend series of the season, Auburn baseball will host Southeastern Louisiana, a participant in the Auburn regional one season ago. In the game, Auburn scored 11 first-inning runs which paved the way for a 19-7 win in game one of the 2022 Auburn regional. [autotag]Cole Foster[/autotag] hit two home runs in the inning, one from each side of the plate, totaling six RBI.

The Lions will no doubt enter the weekend with hopes of getting rid of the bad taste of last season’s regional opener. They will do that by bringing an aggressive base-running attack with them to Plainsman Park.

“It’s good. We haven’t played a team that’s going to run this much and present some different challenges standing in the box the way they have,” head coach [autotag]Butch Thompson[/autotag] said of Southeastern Louisiana. “It’s been four weekends, and this will be the fourth different opponent that will teach us a lot.”

Ahead of this weekend’s series, here’s a look at everything you need to know including a broadcast guide, a projected lineup, and a projected pitching matchup.

Auburn baseball ‘responds’ with come-from-behind win at Jax State

Cole Foster led the Tigers offensively with four hits in Auburn’s first true road win of the year.

For the second straight day, Auburn got into a tight defensive battle with an in-state foe. However, what made Wednesday’s game at Jax State different from Tuesday’s win over UAB on Tuesday was that Auburn needed to come from behind to get the win.

Trailing 1-0 heading to the 7th inning, a trio of hits from the top half of Auburn’s lineup made way for four runs to score. Two more insurance runs in the 9th inning would be enough to escape Jacksonville with a 6-3 win at Rudy Abbott Field.

“We responded. I thought that was the difference there in the ballgame,” head coach [autotag]Butch Thompson[/autotag] said following Wednesday’s game. “It’s neat to play some of these closer games and having to come from behind. Some teams can only win one way. I think we’re at least learning or gaining a little confidence that we can win more than one way.”

Both teams were held scoreless through the first five innings before Jax State broke open the tie by posting a run in their half of the 6th inning. The Gamecocks led off the inning with a base runner due to an error by Tiger shortstop Cole Foster. That run scored two at-bats later on a right-field double by Mason Maners to put Jax State up, 1-0.

Auburn responded by delivering a punch in the form of a four-run top of the 7th inning with two outs. Foster tied the game on a single to left field to score [autotag]Caden Green[/autotag] from third base. [autotag]Justin Kirby[/autotag] would give Auburn the lead on a ground-rule double that scored [autotag]Mike Bello[/autotag]. Finally, [autotag]Ike Irish[/autotag] gave the Tigers added insurance on a two-run double to left field that scored Kirby and Foster to give Auburn the 4-1 lead.

Auburn added two more runs in the top of the 9th inning when [autotag]Chris Stanfield[/autotag] plated two on a single to left field to extend Auburn’s lead to 6-1. Those two runs would be considered the game’s most important for Auburn, as the Gamecocks fired back by scoring two runs in the bottom of the ninth to cut Auburn’s lead to 6-3.

It would be the second night in a row that Auburn allowed their opponent to bring the tying run to the plate, but [autotag]Will Cannon[/autotag] struck out Maners to close the game.

Three Tigers recorded multiple hits in the game, with Foster leading the way with a 4-for-4 night. Freshmen Stanfield and Irish each had two hits and two RBI. Starting pitcher [autotag]Konnor Copeland[/autotag] pitched five innings of two-hit baseball, striking out six batters. [autotag]Chase Isbell[/autotag] earned the win by allowing one hit in 1.0 innings of work, making way for Cannon to earn his third save of the season.

Auburn will welcome Southeastern Louisiana to Plainsman Park to begin a three-game series with the Lions on Friday at 6 p.m. CT. Southeastern is currently 9-4, and most recently won a midweek contest at Alabama A&M, 14-0 on Wednesday.

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Perfect Game shares high acclaim for Auburn Baseball with respectable ranking

Vincent Cervino of Perfect Game explains why Auburn baseball has been worthy of such a high ranking in their poll all season.

Auburn baseball returned to the College World Series in 2022 for the second time in three seasons and ended last season ranked among the nation’s best teams across all polls.

Entering this season, Auburn had to find ways to rebuild their weekend pitching rotation, as well as replace their closer and top four hitters. Four of the six major polls were hesitant to put Auburn in their preseason top 25, but one outlet started off with a high opinion of Auburn and has continued to show confidence in the Tigers with each passing week.

Perfect Game gave Auburn their highest preseason ranking by placing them in the No. 17 slot. Since then, Auburn has risen to No. 11 in their poll, which is their highest ranking across the board by nine spots despite the Tigers winning five straight games and has pieced together an eight-game stretch without recording a loss.

The discrepancy has raised the question of “what does Perfect Game see in Auburn that others don’t?” We reached out to Perfect Game’s Vincent Cervino for an answer. He delivered.

Cervino says that he and the staff at Perfect Game are high on Auburn for one simple reason.. head coach [autotag]Butch Thompson[/autotag] knows how to win.

“I think at this point Butch Thompson has proven he knows what it takes to build a winner at Auburn and while the Tigers did lose some key pieces, I really like their freshman class a lot,” Cervino tells Auburn Wire. “They’re deep at a lot of positions and even if they don’t have the flashy star power that some other SEC programs have they do have both performers and program consistency.”

The freshman that is making the most noise for Auburn through three weeks has been [autotag]Ike Irish[/autotag]. The freshman from Hudsonville, Michigan entered this week with a .535 average, six doubles, and nine RBI. He has also strung together eight multi-hit games. Cervino says that Irish could have a crowded trophy case by the time his Auburn career comes to a close.

“Ike Irish was a PG All-American back in high school and his bat was never in question throughout his prep career,” Cervino said. “I was a little surprised to hear that Ike was going to be hitting 3 or 4-hole right away but he’s been dominant to open his career. It’s a real bat with power behind it and he’s setting himself up for not only an SEC Freshman of the Year campaign but potentially towards a first-round draft selection in 2025.”

Auburn looks to continue building on their hot start this weekend with a series against Southeastern Louisiana, a participant of the Auburn regional last season, before facing a challenging week against Georgia Tech and Arkansas to open the SEC slate next weekend.

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Auburn baseball vs. Jax State: How to watch/listen to Wednesday’s game in Jacksonville

The No. 25 Tigers travel to Jacksonville to face the Gamecocks in their first true road contest of the season.

The No. 25 Auburn Tigers plays Jax State on Wednesday, and if you’re wondering how you can watch the action live, you’ve come to the right place.

Auburn baseball began midweek action on Tuesday with a defensive battle with UAB. [autotag]Bryson Ware[/autotag] recorded three of Auburn’s four hits in the contest which included a two-run home run in the 4th inning to lift Auburn over the Blazers, 4-1 at Plainsman Park.

Wednesday, Auburn will travel to Jax State for their first true road game of the season to face the Gamecocks at Rudy Abbot Field in Jacksonville.

After the UAB win on Tuesday night, Auburn head coach [autotag]Butch Thompson[/autotag] says that in-state games are important, and will build up the team ahead of SEC play next weekend. The Gamecocks enter the contest with a 4-8 record, but Thompson knows that his team can not take them lightly, especially at their place.

“Like UAB, look at this game (Tuesday), that was a pretty high-level baseball game. You are going to get that in the state of Alabama,” Thompson said after Auburn’s win over UAB on Tuesday. “I know what to expect (Wednesday), (Jax State) beat us on our home field last year. I think that was the only midweek game we lost within the ten weeks of SEC play.”

It is spring break at Auburn University, which means that the Tigers will play their first back-to-back midweek games of the season. Thompson says that his team needs to put Tuesday’s win behind them, and get ready for a new day.

“We have to reset and get right back at this (Wednesday). Spin a couple of bullets tonight and we have four more games this week,” Thompson said. “It will force us to keep unveiling some bullpen pieces, some young guys will be in the mix.”

Below, you will find everything you need to know ahead of Wednesday’s game between Auburn and Jax State, including a broadcast guide, projected lineup, and the pitching rotation.