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Paul Skenes and Tre Morgan lead the way for LSU in Game 1 shutout win at Auburn

LSU started the weekend the right way with a 3-0 win on the plains.

LSU traveled to Auburn, Alabama, to take on the Tigers as they tried to go for a third straight conference series sweep. Coach Jay Johnson’s team started the weekend off on the right foot with a 3-0 shutout win to take Game 1.

[autotag]Tre Morgan[/autotag] got the party started in the top of the first inning with a two-run shot to right field to give LSU an early 2-0 lead.

[autotag]Paul Skenes[/autotag] got the start on the mound and he did what he always does. Goes deep into the game and gets a lot of strikeouts. He made Auburn players whiff on pitches all night as he racked up 15 strikeouts through 7.1 innings with six hits and a walk.

In the top of the seventh inning, Auburn pitcher, [autotag]Tanner Bauman[/autotag], was called for a balk. That call moved [autotag]Gavin Dugas[/autotag] from first to second base with Captain Morgan at the plate. Morgan proceeded to hit an RBI single to extend the LSU lead to 3-0.

In the bottom of the eighth inning, Skenes struck out the first batter before [autotag]Nate Ackenhausen[/autotag] came in to pitch. In the bottom of the ninth inning, Auburn’s leadoff hitter hit a single. That chased Ackenhausen from the game and brought in [autotag]Thatcher Hurd[/autotag]. Hurd struck out the first batter he faced for out No. 1. He then struck out the second hitter for out No. 2. He got the next batter to ground out and he secured a 3-0 win for LSU in game one.

With the win, LSU moves to 37-8 overall and 16-5 in conference play this season. Game 2 will be Saturday night on the plains with the first pitch scheduled for 8 p.m. CT.

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LSU baseball takes care of business on the road against Southeastern Louisiana

There was no midweek meltdown this time around for the Tigers.

LSU entered Tuesday night’s game against Southeastern Louisiana after losing two midweek games in a row, both to in-state opponents. That was not the case this time as the Tigers breezed to a 10-0 win.

LSU struck first in the top of the second inning when [autotag]Jared Jones[/autotag] scored on a wild pitch and [autotag]Gavin Dugas[/autotag] hit a two-run homer to give the Tigers a 3-0 lead.

In the top of the fourth, Dugas scored on a fielder’s choice, [autotag]Dylan Crews[/autotag] scored on a wild pitch, and [autotag]Hayden Travinski[/autotag] hit a two-RBI single to increase the lead to 7-0.

Dugas scored again in the top of the fifth inning due to a fielding error. That increased the Tigers’ lead to 8-0.

In the top of the seventh inning, [autotag]Tommy White[/autotag] hit a two-run homer to give LSU a 10-0 lead. All the Tigers had to do was get three outs in the bottom of the inning and they would head home with another run-rule victory.

[autotag]Gavin Guidry[/autotag], [autotag]Blake Money[/autotag], [autotag]Micah Bucknam[/autotag], [autotag]Will Hellmers[/autotag], and [autotag]Sam Dutton[/autotag] combined for the shutout.

With the win, LSU moves to 36-8 overall this season. LSU will travel to the Plains to take on the Auburn Tigers this weekend. The first pitch for game one is scheduled for 6 p.m. CT Friday night.

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Pair of homers lead LSU baseball to Game 1 win over Alabama

The Tigers bounced back from a midweek loss with a series-opening win on Friday.

The Tigers looked to bounce back after another midweek loss as they welcome the Alabama Crimson Tide into Alex Box Stadium this weekend, and they did just that with an 8-6 win to take Game 1.

[autotag]Paul Skenes[/autotag] got the start on the mound, but that wasn’t the best news LSU had heard all week, [autotag]Tommy White[/autotag] and [autotag]Tre Morgan[/autotag] being healthy enough to play were the best news anyone has heard.

Speaking of White, he got the scoring started off with a bang as he hit a “Tommy Tank” to right field to put the Tigers up 1-0.

In the bottom of the third inning, [autotag]Dylan Crews[/autotag] joined the homerun party as he hit a “Crews Missile” to right field to increase the LSU lead to 4-0 after three innings.

In the top of the fourth inning, Alabama got on the board with a solo homer to cut the lead to 4-1. In the bottom of the sixth inning, LSU loaded the bases before [autotag]Gavin Dugas[/autotag] was hit by a pitch to increase the lead to 5-1. Morgan and Crews were both walked to make it 7-1 Tigers after six innings.

Skenes’ night was finished after six innings. His final line was 6.0 innings pitched as he gave up one run on five hits and nine strikeouts. [autotag]Griffin Herring[/autotag] was brought into the game in relief.

In the bottom of the seventh, LSU extended their lead to 8-1 on a sacrifice groundout. Alabama trimmed the LSU lead to 8-2 after an RBI single in the top of the eighth inning. Herring stayed in to pitch the ninth inning but Alabama chased him from the mound after the Tide cut the lead to 8-5 and the tying run came up to the plate. [autotag]Bryce Collins[/autotag] entered the game to try and get the final out. Collins was greeted with an RBI single to cut the lead to 8-6. He then struck out the next hitter to secure the win.

With the win, LSU moves to 33-8 overall and 13-5 in conference play. LSU will take on Alabama in Game 2 Saturday night at 6 p.m. CT.

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No. 1 LSU baseball falls to Nicholls to drop back-to-back midweek games

The Colonels won in Baton Rouge for the first time since 2015.

How would LSU look coming off of their first conference series sweep of the season and an emotional comeback to beat Ole Miss?

The Tigers welcomed Nicholls into Baton Rouge for a midweek game on Tuesday as the Tigers looked to rebound after losing an in-state midweek game last week. However, they suffered another defeat with a 6-5 loss to the Colonels, who won in Baton Rouge for the first time since 2015.

For the first five innings, Nicholls had LSU on the ropes. In the top of the second inning, Nicholls drew first blood on a sacrifice fly to give them a 1-0 lead.

In the top of the fifth, a two-RBI single off of [autotag]Riley Cooper[/autotag] increased their lead to 3-0 heading into the sixth inning. That is when LSU clawed their way back into the game.

Batting in the cleanup spot and playing as a Designated Hitter tonight, [autotag]Cade Beloso[/autotag] hit a solo homer to right field to start the scoring. [autotag]Jared Jones[/autotag] then walked with bases loaded, [autotag]Ethan Frey[/autotag] reached on a fielder’s choice RBI, and [autotag]Gavin Dugas[/autotag] hit a sacrifice fly to give the Tigers their first lead of the ball game.

Nicholls would not go quietly into the night as they scored a run on a fielder’s choice in the top of the eighth inning to tie the game 4-4. In the top of the ninth, Nicholls scored two runs on an RBI single and a fielding error to make it 6-4 heading into the bottom of the ninth.

Jones started the bottom of the ninth with a solo shot to cut the lead to 6-5. Frey and Dugas hit back-to-back singles to put the tying run on second base with zero outs. [autotag]Josh Pearson[/autotag] struck out for out number one. [autotag]Dylan Crews[/autotag] was intentionally walked to load the bases and put the tying run with one out. Beloso popped up into a double play to end the ball game and the Tigers lost 6-5.

This loss marks the second week in a row that LSU has lost a midweek game to an in-state opponent. With the loss, the Tigers drop to 32-8 on the season. LSU will welcome the Alabama Crimson Tide into town this weekend as the Tigers look to rebound once again.

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Hayden Travinski lifts LSU to a series sweep with clutch go-ahead homer in 9th

The Tigers looked like they were going to miss out on their first SEC sweep of the year, but the decision to pinch-hit Travinski in the ninth paid off.

LSU entered today’s game with a shot at sweeping the Ole Miss Rebels in Oxford and a pinch-hit three-run homer from Hayden Travinski lifted LSU to a win!

[autotag]Dylan Crews[/autotag] got the Tigers on the board first when he hit an RBI single up the middle to score [autotag]Gavin Dugas[/autotag] and give LSU a 1-0 lead early. Ole Miss tied it up in the bottom of the inning when they hit a sacrifice fly to tie the game 1-1.

Ole Miss took the lead in the bottom of the second inning when they hit an RBI single to give the Rebels a 2-1 lead after two innings. LSU re-took the lead in the top of the third when Jordan Thompson hit an RBI single to score Crews. [autotag]Josh Pearson[/autotag] was thrown out at home during the play. [autotag]Jared Jones[/autotag] followed that with an RBI single to give LSU a 3-2 lead after three innings.

In the top of the fifth inning, [autotag]Cade Beloso[/autotag] hit a solo shot to right field to extend the LSU lead to 4-2.

In the bottom of the sixth inning, Ole Miss cut into the lead with an RBI double to bring the Rebels to within one run as [autotag]Javen Coleman[/autotag] came in to pitch for [autotag]Christian Little[/autotag]. The final line on Little was 5.1 innings pitched with three runs on six hits. He had three strikeouts and one walk. It was his longest start of the season and put him in line to win the game if LSU pulled it off.

In the bottom of the seventh inning, Ole Miss tied the game on a solo shot to right-center field to make it 4-4 heading into the eighth inning. In the bottom of the eighth inning, the Rebels hit a two-run shot to give them a 6-4 lead as we headed into the ninth inning.

In the top of the ninth inning, Ole Miss got two quick outs before walking Jones and hitting [autotag]Brayden Jobert[/autotag] with a pitch. [autotag]Hayden Travinski[/autotag] then pinch hit for [autotag]Alex Milazzo[/autotag] and he proceeded to hit a three-run bomb to give the Tigers a 7-6 lead.

[autotag]Gavin Guidry[/autotag] would be called on out of the bullpen to try and save the game. He retired the first batter he faced before the Rebels hit a double to put the tying run on second with one out. Guidry got the next hitter to fly out at the wall and the Rebels found themselves down to their last out. The final batter popped up to the second baseman, and the Tigers won 7-6.

With the win, LSU moves to 32-7 on the season and 12-5 in conference play. LSU’s next game will be on Tuesday against Nicholls. The first pitch is scheduled for 6:30 p.m CT.

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Tigers take Game 1 in Oxford against Ole Miss

LSU bounced back from a midweek loss on Friday night.

The series between No. 1 LSU and the Ole Miss Rebels got underway on Friday night in Oxford with the Tigers looking to bounce back after a midweek loss. They did just that, starting the series off with a 7-3 win.

In the top of the first inning, [autotag]Tommy White[/autotag] picked up where he left off last week as he reached on an error to score [autotag]Dylan Crews[/autotag] from third and give LSU a 1-0 lead.

In the top of the third inning, [autotag]Gavin Dugas[/autotag] scored on a wild pitch to give the Tigers a 2-0 lead through three innings.

In the bottom of the fourth inning, Ole Miss took the lead on a three-run homer by [autotag]Will Furniss[/autotag], whose dad, [autotag]Eddy Furniss[/autotag], is one of the greatest LSU Tigers of all time. Ole Miss held a 4-3 lead heading into the fifth inning. Tommy Tanks stepped into the batter’s box with the bases loaded and one out and he did what he does best, hit bombs. White hit a grand slam to center field to give LSU a 6-3 lead in the fifth inning.

[autotag]Paul Skenes[/autotag]’ night ended after six innings. His final line, six innings pitched, four hits, three runs, 11 strikeouts, and three walks. His only real blemish was the three-run bomb in the fourth. [autotag]Griffin Herring[/autotag] came in to pitch in the bottom of the seventh inning and retired the side 1-2-3.

In the top of the eighth inning, [autotag]Brayden Jobert[/autotag] scored on an [autotag]Alex Milazzo [/autotag]RBI single to increase the lead to 7-3. Herring stayed in for the bottom of the eighth and ninth innings to close out the game.

With the win, LSU moves to 30-7 overall and 10-5 in conference play. Game 2 will be Saturday at 2 p.m. CT as LSU looks to win another conference series.

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Tigers have a home run derby in Game 1 win over Kentucky

LSU’s bats came alive as the Tigers scored 16 runs in a Game 1 win.

The No. 1 team in the land welcomed the team with the No. 1 RPI (Ratings Percentage Index) in the country for a weekend showdown, and LSU walked away with a 16-6 run-rule win.

The Tigers entered the game after splitting a two-game series on the road against South Carolina and then beating Tulane. Kentucky entered after dropping a series to Georgia.

In the bottom of the first, it was bombs away in Baton Rouge. After [autotag]Gavin Dugas[/autotag] was hit by a pitch and [autotag]Dylan Crews[/autotag] was intentionally walked, [autotag]Tommy White[/autotag] cleared the bases with a two-RBI double to left field. The bases were then loaded after a [autotag]Cade Beloso[/autotag] walk and a [autotag]Jared Jones[/autotag] single.

In stepped [autotag]Jordan Thompson[/autotag]. Thompson proceeded to hit a monster grand slam to left field to give LSU a 6-0 lead after one inning.

In the top of the second, Kentucky scored a run after an error helped the Wildcats get runners on the corners with only one out. LSU got that back and more in the bottom of the inning. With the bases loaded, Jones was walked to bring in a run. [autotag]Brayden Jobert[/autotag] followed that with a grand slam to right field that exited the stadium. After two innings, LSU led 11-1.

The home run derby continued in the bottom of the third inning when Beloso hit a three-run homer to right field to give LSU a 14-1 lead after only three innings.

Kentucky would not go quietly into the night however as they scored two runs on Skenes in the top of the fourth to cut the lead to 14-3. The Wildcats tacked on two more runs in the top of the fifth inning to make the score 14-5 and keep the run rule at bay.

In the top of the seventh inning, Kentucky scored another run on an RBI single. Dugas was injured trying to dive for the ball at second base and had to leave the game. In the bottom of the seventh, [autotag]Alex Milazzo[/autotag] scored on a passed ball to give LSU a 15-6 lead. In the bottom of the eighth, Milazzo hit an RBI single to left field to secure the 16-6 run-rule victory.

With the win, LSU moves to 28-5 overall and 8-4 in conference play. The Tigers will go for the series win Friday night at 6:30 p.m.

SEC baseball power rankings after 4 weeks of conference play

This weekend in the SEC was a wild one, to say the least.

This weekend in the SEC was a wild one, to say the least. Georgia won a series against Kentucky, Mississippi State beat Alabama on the road, and South Carolina and LSU tied.

Add to that the fact that Vanderbilt lost its first conference game of the season against Missouri while Texas A&M beat Auburn on the road, and you have yourself a wild weekend.

Mother Nature was the real winner of the series between LSU and South Carolina. The teams were only able to play two games and thanks to the heroics of [autotag]Gavin Dugas[/autotag], LSU was able to go home 1-1 instead of 0-2.

Here’s how the SEC teams stack up in this week’s power rankings.

Tigers use wave of offense to beat Tulane in midweek road showdown

LSU took a trip to New Orleans to take on the Tulane Green Wave for a midweek matchup, and it will return home victorious.

LSU took a trip to New Orleans to take on the Tulane Green Wave for a midweek matchup and will return to Baton Rouge victorious after an 11-5 win.

Tulane drew first blood in the bottom of the first inning when they scored on an RBI single off of [autotag]Christian Little[/autotag] to make it 1-0.

LSU took their first lead of the game in the top of the third when [autotag]Tommy White[/autotag] hit a two-RBI double to center field to make it 2-1 Tigers.

Tulane took the lead right back in the bottom of the inning when they hit a two-run homer off of [autotag]Blake Money[/autotag] to give them a 3-2 lead. In the top of the fourth, [autotag]Brayden Jobert[/autotag] hit an RBI single to left field to score [autotag]Jared Jones[/autotag] and tie the game 3-3.

In the top of the fifth inning, LSU took the lead back after a sacrifice fly by White and an RBI single by [autotag]Cade Beloso[/autotag] gave LSU a 5-3 lead.

In the top of the sixth inning, LSU scored a run on an RBI single by [autotag]Gavin Dugas[/autotag], and then Jobert hit a two-run bomb in the top of the seventh to give the Tigers an 8-3 lead.

In the bottom of the seventh, Tulane cut the lead to 8-4 after an RBI single to right field. In the top of the ninth, LSU got that run back with a solo shot by [autotag]Jordan Thompson[/autotag] to left field to make it 9-4. [autotag]Tre Morgan[/autotag] and [autotag]Dylan Crews[/autotag] followed that with a couple of RBI singles to make the score 11-4. In the bottom of the ninth, Tulane was able to score one run but that was it as LSU won 11-5.

With the win, LSU moves to 27-5 on the year. The Tigers’ next matchup will be this Thursday when they take on the No. 12 Kentucky Wildcats at Alex Box Stadium. The first pitch for that series is scheduled for 6 p.m. CT.

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LSU loses Garrett Edwards but evens series against South Carolina with comeback win in Game 2

When LSU needed a clutch hit the most, Gavin Dugas came through with a grand slam to help lead the Tigers to an 8-7 win over the Gamecocks.

When LSU needed a clutch hit the most, [autotag]Gavin Dugas[/autotag] came through with a grand slam to boost the Tigers to an 8-7 win over South Carolina.

The Gamecocks have been unstoppable at home this season, entering Friday’s game with a 19-0 record in Columbia. [autotag]Ty Floyd[/autotag] was tasked with trying to break that streak in Game 1 of the scheduled doubleheader.

After a quiet first inning, the Gamecocks scored four runs in the bottom of the second when Floyd hit back-to-back batters with the bases loaded and then gave up a two-RBI double.

In the top of the fourth inning, LSU hit a pair of homers to trim the lead to 4-3. [autotag]Tommy White[/autotag] hit a solo shot and [autotag]Jordan Thompson[/autotag] hit a two-run shot to left field. For once, LSU had hope.

In the bottom of the fifth inning, [autotag]Garrett Edwards[/autotag] exited the game after an injury, and the Gamecocks were able to get all three of the runs back. [autotag]Griffin Herring[/autotag] stopped the bleeding, but the Tigers found themselves down, 7-3, after five innings.

In the top of the eighth inning, LSU loaded the bases after [autotag]Cade Beloso[/autotag] and Thompson walked. [autotag]Brayden Jobert[/autotag] then singled to load the bases. Down 7-3 and running out of time to make a comeback, LSU had a chance to tie the game with one swing.

Insert [autotag]Gavin Dugas[/autotag], a man who always seems to find himself in these situations and usually produces.

He did just that. Dugas hit a grand slam to tie the game at 7 heading to the bottom of the eighth.

In the top of the ninth inning, [autotag]Dylan Crews[/autotag] led off with a walk. White then grounded out to the pitcher but that got Crews to second. After a wild pitch got him to third, Crews scored on a Beloso RBI single to give LSU its first lead of the weekend heading to the bottom of the ninth.

[autotag]Gavin Guidry[/autotag] remained in the game to pitch the ninth inning for LSU. The Gamecocks put runners on first and second, but Guidry struck out the other three batters he faced to secure the 8-7 victory.

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