BATON ROUGE, Louisiana. – The No. 15 LSU baseball team withdrew for the second consecutive day on Sunday against UT San Antonio Roadrunners with a knock from Gavin Dugas in the center-right field, completing a comeback at the end of the game and winning, 13-12, 11 Appetizer.
LSU, who won his fifth straight game and had 19 hits, the record for the season, improved to 14-3 this season, while UTSA dropped to 5-6. The Tigers unloaded six homers in the dispute and now have 33 dingers in the year.
Before LSU starts playing on the SEC next weekend, the Tigers will host Southeast Louisiana on Tuesday night at 6:30 pm CT. The game will be broadcast on SEC Network + and broadcast by LSU Sports Radio Network affiliates.
“Once again, the overall theme for this game, and the whole weekend, really, was the resilience of our team,” said the LSU coach Paul Mainieri. “Even after we gave up the lead in the ninth inning, you could feel on the bench that no one was going to give up.”
Starting with 10º On Sunday, the game was played using the international extra entry rule, where each half entry started with a runner on second base and no one was out.
LSU lost, 12-9, at the bottom of 10º entrance before the shortstop Jordan Thompson crushed a two-race homer and hit Hayden Travinski followed with a solo shot to tie the game at 12-12.
LSU reliever Theo Millas (1-0) entered the competition at the top of the 11th and threw a goalless inning, setting the stage for Dugas’ heroism at the bottom of the frame.
“Theo Millas showed us something today, “said Mainieri.” He retires from the team in order and sends his team to the bench with the chance to win the game at the end of 11 positionsº. You give children an opportunity like this to see how they perform under pressure, and Millas has done this for us on a number of occasions. Sometimes you need to have this type of game to find out more about the players and what they will do when the lights are bright. “
At the end of the 11ºpinch runner Will Safford went from second to third on a passing ball, and he scored the winning run on Dugas’ single.
UTSA appeaser Ryan Ward (0-2) was charged with a loss, throwing two entries and giving up four runs in four strokes with two walks.
LSU built a 9-2 lead over six innings with the strength of the right player’s home runs Dylan Crews, third base Cade Doughtycentral player Mitchell Sanford and second base Zach Arnold.
But UTSA scored two runs at the start of the seventh and burst through five runs at the start of the ninth to push the game for extra entries.
Thompson hit 4 out of 5 that day for the Tigers with a home run, two RBIs and three scheduled runs. Dugas went 3-to-6 with an RBI and three scheduled runs, and Crews finished 3-to-5 with a home run, two RBI and two runs.
LSU starter pitcher AJ Labas resulted in an exceptional start, limiting UTSA to two runs in five strokes over six entries without walks and seven eliminations, firing 85 shots.