The two highest remaining seeds in the NCAA Tournament met in the College World Series on Saturday night when LSU baseball met Arkansas. LSU ace Kade Anderson shut down the Razorbacks and led the Tigers to a 4-1 victory.
As the lower seed, LSU was the visiting team. Both teams worked through a scoreless first inning before LSU got on the board in the top of the second inning. The Tigers plated three runs in the top of the second as Chris Stanfield hit an RBI single, a pitch with the bases loaded hit Michael Braswell III, and Josh Pearson reached on a fielder’s choice to make it 3-0.
After that, Kade Anderson and the LSU defense would go to work. The Tigers rolled a couple of nice double plays to get LSU out of a few innings. The score remained 3-0 until the bottom of the sixth inning, when a solo shot from Arkansas would cut the lead to 3-1.
In the top of the eighth inning, LSU got an insurance run as Derek Curiel hit an RBI single to increase the lead to 4-1 Tigers as we headed to the bottom of the eighth inning.
In the bottom of the eighth inning, the Razorbacks started the inning with a single, and Anderson was pulled from the game. His day was finished after seven full innings of work. He gave up one run on three hits, seven strikeouts, and two walks. Chase Shores would enter to pitch for him. Shores then retired all three hitters he faced, and we headed to the ninth inning with LSU leading 4-1.
Casan Evans entered to pitch in the bottom of the ninth inning as the Tigers looked to close it out. Evans got out of the inning unscathed, and the Tigers won 4-1.
LSU advances in the winner’s bracket to play UCLA on Monday night at 6 p.m. CT.
#LSU #baseball #beats #Arkansas #key #game #win #Omaha