LSU baseball took on a very inconsistent Arkansas Razorbacks team at Alex Box Stadium this past week. The Tigers were able to get the sweep through some clutch hitting, decent pitching and a rally opossum.

Game 1, LSU 5 Arkansas 4: LSU ace Alex Lange got the win from pitching 7.1 innings while giving up three runs on eight hits while striking out six batters and walking one. Hunter Newman pitched the last 1.2 innings and gave up one run on no hits, earning the save. Arkansas took a 1-0 lead immediately in the top of the first, but LSU was able to answer with a run of their own in the bottom of the frame. In the bottom of the third, LSU took the lead off of a wild pitch that sent Jake Fraley home. Arkansas tied it back up in the top of the fifth, the same half-inning in which LSU was able to pull of a 6-2-5 triple play.

LSU scored three runs in the bottom of the seventh off two bases loaded walks and a sacrifice fly by Jordan Romero. Arkansas was then able to cut into the Tiger’s lead with a home run in the eight and wild pitch in the ninth. However, it was not enough as Cole Eagon flew out to end the game.

This is what happened…

Double play and the third out was on appeal.



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Game 2, LSU 10 Arkansas 9: In maybe the strangest game of the college baseball season, LSU looked to take the series from the Razorbacks on Saturday. It started anything but ideally for the Tigers as Arkansas was able to build up a 9-1 lead through five innings as LSU played about as poorly defensively as they have all season, which included a busted lip for shortstop Kramer Robertson. LSU was able to get back two runs in the bottom of the inning and the one more in the sixth. Then the opossum struck.

An opossum (not possum) somehow found its way on to Skip Bertman Field in the bottom of the seventh inning with LSU down 9-4. It took two Arkansas outfielders as well as a couple tarp crew members to get the rodent off the field.

However, the animal may have just sparked a rally for the Tigers. LSU was able to add a run in the inning to cut Arkansas’ lead to 9-5. In the ninth, the Tigers were able to put up four in part thanks to two errors by Arkansas third baseman Cody Scroggins. Down 9-6, Brennan Breaux, who was pinch hitting for Beau Jordan, nailed a bases loaded double into left-center field and drove in two to bring it to 9-8. Greg Deichmann drove in Chris Reid on a sacrifice fly immediately after and forced extra innings.

Russell Reynolds came in for the tenth and faced just four batters, keeping the score tied. In the bottom of the tenth, Jake Fraley hit a one-out double. Robertson came up to bat, hit a ground ball to the second baseman and was able to beat out the throw to first. Arkansas’ first baseman Eagon threw to third as Fraley advanced and overthrew Scroggins. Farley then ran home and LSU completed one of the craziest comebacks in school history.

Overall, the game was very sloppy for the Tigers. They committed three errors, struck out fifteen times and left nineteen men on base.

Game 3, LSU 7 Arkansas 1: In his never-ending search for a Sunday starter, Paul Mainieri went with freshman Caleb Gilbert. The decision paid off at least for a day as Gilbert was able to go five scoreless innings, giving up five hits while striking out two.

LSU struck early with a Brennan Breaux two-run single. The fifth was when the Tigers really broke the game open. Cole Freeman scored on a wild pitch and two batters later, Jordan Romero hit a three-run home run to left-center field to give LSU a 6-0 lead.

The two teams traded runs in the bottom of the eighth and top of the ninth and LSU left Alex Box with a 7-1 victory and series sweep.

Overall, it was a pretty weird weekend for the Tigers. There a was a triple play, busted lip and again, a rally opossum all over the course of a weekend.

LSU travels to South Bend this weekend to take on Notre Dame before going to Knoxville to play Tennessee.

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