Due to the threat of rain in the area, LSU Tigers fans packed into Alex Box Stadium for an early morning game between the LSU Baseball team and the Purdue Fort Wayne Mastodons. The rain ended up coming from the LSU offense as the Tigers let if fly with Home Runs after playing small ball in game one.
The Tigers jumped on the Mastodons early as Daniel Dickinson remained red hot hitting his first home run of the season for LSU driving in Jared Jones. After the first inning Zane Danielson did a great job keeping LSU off balanced and until there were two outs in the fifth inning the Tigers offense only had one hit.
Chris Stanfield then showed everyone at home why you hustle to beat out ground balls as he kept the 5th inning alive. Derek Curiel would make Purdue Fort Wayne pay blasting his first career home run making it 4-1 LSU. Jared Jones was not going to be one upped by the Freshman and he went back to back with Curiel blasting a home run off of the score board.
Bear Jones. Scoreboard. See ya.
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In the Sixth Inning, LSU started to push, extending the lead when Michael Braswell drove in Josh Pearson. In the 7th inning, LSU pushed a run across on a bases loaded walk and Jared Jones scored on a wild pitch. Ashton Larson would get to pinch hit for Michael Braswell and the move panned out for Jay Johnson as Larson hit a 2 RBI single putting the Tigers one run away from the mercy rule.
While it looked like LSU would end this game on the mercy rule, the Tigers never could push across the run to walk it off.
In his first start for the Tigers, Anthony Eyanson got himself in trouble at times but, he gave LSU five innings of one run baseball striking out 6 batters but, he didn't walk any batters which was the most encouraging part of his start. Connor Benge was first out of the bullpen and he was dominant striking out 3 in 1.2 innings without allowing a hit. DJ Primeaux followed and gave the Tigers 1.1 innings pitched allowing just one hit while striking out three.
As the Tigers looked to close the game out, Jay Johnson handed the ball to true freshman Mavrick Rizy giving the fans their first look at the highly touted reliever. Rizy came in and quickly shut the Mastodons down striking out a pair moving the Tigers to 2-0 on the season.
The Tigers will face the Mastodons once more on Sunday Afternoon as the LSU Baseball team will look for the sweep at 1:00 PM Central Time.