LSU (49-15, 19-10 SEC) defeated Tennessee (43-21, 16-14 SEC), 6-3, Saturday in the College World Series at Charles Schwab Field Omaha in Omaha, Nebraska.
“We got beat tonight,” sixth-year Tennessee head coach Tony Vitello said after the game. “I thought our guys played all nine innings.”
Andrew Lindsey started for the Vols, pitching 3.2 innings. He recorded four strikeouts, while allowing two runs, five hits and one walk.
“He was good,” Vitello said of Lindsey. “I mean, they did what you’ve got to do against a guy like Lindsey. He’s a heavy ground-ball guy. He mixes well himself. They had the one big swing. I don’t know what we did to Gavin (Dugas), but he hates us, and I’m only speaking in brevity, the best I can do. He’s done well against us the four games we’ve played this year, but other than that swing, they kind of just — I don’t want to say nickel and dime — they took what they could get off of him and found some holes and were able to accumulate some things.
“I’d love for you all to come over to the hotel and replay the game like a video game and make decisions, but when you’re going on the fly there, we treated that situation where Combsy came in as almost like a ninth-inning type situation because, just to be frank, because of the guy that we were facing on their side of things, but I thought he threw the ball good.”