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Tommy White walks it off in extras against Wake Forest to send LSU to the national championship

Tommy White hit a two-run shot to win the game and send the Tigers to the national championship series against Florida.

Many games are advertised as “Games of the Century.” It is very rare that those games ever live up to that hype.

This one did.

[autotag]Paul Skenes[/autotag] against Wake Forest’s [autotag]Rhett Lowder[/autotag], two of the best pitchers in the country, with each team’s season on the line.

This game was all about defense until the 11th inning when [autotag]Tommy White[/autotag] broke the shutout with a two-run walk-off homer to lift the Tigers past the Demon Deacons and into the national championship series against Florida.

The most exciting thing to happen during the first part of this game was Skenes breaking former Tiger, [autotag]Ben McDonald[/autotag]’s, single-season strikeout record in the SEC. It only took Skenes two innings to break it.

Lowder’s night was finished after he pitched seven innings and allowed zero runs on three hits, six strikeouts, and two walks. In the top of the eighth inning, Wake Forest had runners on the corner with only one out. They tried a safety squeeze where the hitter would try to bunt the runner in. [autotag]Tre Morgan[/autotag] said “not today.”

Skenes’ day was done after pitching eight innings and allowing zero runs on two hits, nine strikeouts, and a walk. [autotag]Thatcher Hurd[/autotag] came out of the bullpen to replace him. Neither team was able to score in the ninth inning so we headed to extras.

In the bottom of the eleventh inning, Crews singled to chase [autotag]Michael Massey[/autotag] from the mound. The Demon Deacons brought in [autotag]Camden Minacci[/autotag] to face White with the winning run on first base. On the first pitch to White, Minacci hung a breaking ball up in the zone…and the rest was history.

White hit a two-run shot to win the game for LSU and send the Tigers to the national championship series. LSU will get a rematch of the 2017 national championship with a shot at a different outcome.

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