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LSU baseball makes quick work of Nicholls in midweek win

It was business as usual for LSU as it run-ruled Nicholls on Tuesday night.

It was business as usual for LSU in its midweek game — another run-rule victory as the Tigers beat Nicholls 12-2 in seven innings.

Nicholls scored the first run of the ball game when they scored on an RBI double in the top of the second inning to give them their only lead of the game.

LSU answered back in the bottom of the third as the Tigers plated five runs thanks to a sacrifice fly from [autotag]Gavin Dugas[/autotag], a wild pitch, and a [autotag]Tommy White[/autotag] three-run homer to make it 5-1.

In the bottom of the fourth, LSU scored two more runs as [autotag]Alex Milazzo[/autotag] hit an RBI single and Dugas hit an RBI double to make it 7-1. In the top of the fifth, Nicholls got one of those runs back on a sacrifice fly to cut the lead to 7-2. In the bottom of the fifth, [autotag]Jared Jones[/autotag] hit a long homer to left to give LSU an 8-2 lead.

In the bottom of the sixth inning, Dugas hit an RBI triple, [autotag]Tre Morgan[/autotag] hit a sacrifice fly for an RBI, and White hit a two-run blast to right field to give LSU a 12-2 lead. The Tigers would prevent Nicholls from scoring in the top of the seventh and the Tigers won via run rule.

LSU will travel to Columbia, South Carolina, this Thursday to take on the No. 6 South Carolina Gamecocks in what should be a very interesting series.

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How to watch No. 1 LSU baseball take on Nicholls in Tuesday night midweek game

The Tigers will look to keep rolling after winning a big series against Tennessee.

It wasn’t perfect, but the Tigers took care of business in perhaps their most anticipated series of the season this past weekend against the Tennessee Volunteers.

LSU took the series with wins in the first two games, and though it dropped Game 3 after some poor pitching, coach Jay Johnson’s team still sits at 6-3 in SEC play with three series wins and remained the No. 1 team in every poll.

Next up is a road trip to take on a No. 6-ranked South Carolina team that only has one slip-up so far in SEC play. First, though, the Tigers welcome Nicholls to The Box for a midweek contest on Tuesday night.

“I would give us an ‘A’ for the first half of the season,” Johnson said in a release. “Ours is an easy team to get behind in terms of how we play, how much they care, how invested they are. I love coaching them, and we’ve got great leadership and a great team dynamic. I’m excited for the week ahead of us.”

The Colonels enter this one at 17-13 on the year having won their first two conference series against McNeese and Lamar. In their lone series against a power conference team, they took one of three against Nebraska.

Here’s everything you need to follow Tuesday night’s game, which is set to start at 6:30 p.m. CT.

LSU baseball takes a bite out of the Colonels on Tuesday night

It was a nice tuneup game for the Tigers as they prepare for a road series against Alabama this weekend.

Let’s turn up on a Tuesday night in Baton Rouge, shall we?

Last week, LSU had a disappointing mid-week loss at New Orleans and they entered this game with the hope of turning things around. The Tigers did just that against the Nicholls State Colonels in a 10-6 win that was an even bigger blowout until a ninth-inning rally.

[autotag]Bryce Collins[/autotag] got the start on the mound for LSU as coach Johnson threw a few different pitchers tonight. Also, it turns out [autotag]Jacob Berry[/autotag] (the number one ranked college prospect, per the MLB network) and freshman [autotag]Josh Pearson[/autotag] are pretty good at the whole baseball thing.

Pearson finished the game 3-for-6 with five RBI and two homers, and Berry finished the game 3-for-4 with two RBI and one homer. In the bottom of the second inning, LSU got on the board with a RBI single by Pearson followed by a Berry RBI single to make it 2-0 Tigers.

In the bottom of the third inning, LSU scored five runs starting with a [autotag]Josh Stevenson[/autotag] RBI single followed by a Pearson three-run homer and a Berry solo homer to make the score 7-0 after only three innings.

The Tigers would start to sub a bunch of regulars out of the lineup for some young guns to get them some playing time, but that would not keep them from scoring even more runs as they scored one run in each of the fifth, sixth and seventh innings to take a 10-0 lead.

Pearson hit his second homer of the game as he blasted one to dead center in the bottom of the fifth. [autotag]Tyler McManus[/autotag] hit an RBI single in the bottom of the sixth and [autotag]Whit Merrifield[/autotag] scored on a wild pitch in the bottom of the eighth inning.

In the top of the eighth inning, Nicholls started attempting to mount a comeback as they scored a run due to a solo homer to left-center field to get the Colonels on the board. In the top of the ninth, the Colonels scored on an RBI single and a wild pitch to make it 10-3 Tigers with no one out and runners on the corners.

[autotag]Will Hellmers[/autotag] was then called into the game to try and close out the win. The first batter he faced laced an RBI double to right field which led to another pitching change as [autotag]Trent Vietmeier[/autotag] would come out of the bullpen with runners on second and third with no one out and a 10-4 lead.

The first batter he faced hit a sacrifice fly to make it 10-5 Tigers, but it got the first out of the inning. His second batter grounded out for out number two, but his third batter hit an RBI single to cut the lead to 10-6 with two down and a runner on second.

So, in came [autotag]Eric Reyzelman[/autotag], who struck out the only hitter he faced as the Tigers won 10-6. With the win, LSU improves to 30-14 (12-9 SEC). The Tigers will take a trip to Tuscaloosa for a weekend series with the Alabama Crimson Tide starting Friday night at 6 p.m. CT.

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