![]() ![]() ![]() Vitello brought Andrew Lindsey out of the bullpen, and he surrendered a full-count walk to the first batter he faced. Throwing 97, 98 MPH isn’t worth much if it’s hanging over the middle of the plate. The slider is vicious, but he’s gotta develop his secondary pitches and locate his fastball better. The five runs allowed raised his season ERA to 4.97 to go with a wild pitch, a hit batter and a walk. It’s hard to ignore the pattern we’ve seen with Burns this year - he struck out seven in 3.1 IP, but all seven hits he surrendered were hard-hit, extra-base knocks. Back-to-back home runs from nine-hole hitter Brady Neal and leadoff hitter Gavin Dugas followed by LSU’s fifth double of the game thanks to Tre’ Morgan 0-1 pitch into the gap in left-center. Floyd sat down Christian Scott via strikeout and Taylor via fly-ball out.īurns struck out the first batter of the bottom of the fourth and then things went south, quick. Burns made a deal with the devil and ended the house-on-fire, everything-is-fine inning with a swinging strikeout on a slider.ĭreiling started the fourth inning off with another base hit, and this time he didn’t get picked off at first, so Zane Denton’s home run a batter later gave the Vols a 4-3 lead. Burns induced another flyout from Tommy White and then proceeded to throw a wild pitch that advanced Crews (who’d reached on the error), toss a full-count walk and then hit the next batter. Tennessee tried its best to blow the game open for LSU in the bottom of the third: Burns got Morgan to fly out to kick the inning off, but then a Christian Moore error at second gave the Tigers a baserunner. ![]() Blake Burke managed to move the runners into scoring position with a ground-out, but Jared Dickey grounder out, too, and Tennessee stranded two runners that coulda been runs with a base hit. ![]() Then Moore followed with a single to center. Charlie Taylor led the inning off with an out, but Ahuna drew a five-pitch walk. Hunter Ensley walked up and took LSU starter Ty Floyd deep to left field for a home run three pitches later.įloyd sat Zane Denton and Christian Scott down in order, and Tennessee trailed 3-2 after the top of the second.Ĭhase Burns struck out two of the three Tigers he faced in the bottom of the inning and needed just 12 pitches to do it.Īgain in the top of the third, UT managed some runners on the base paths. But then, the “at-least one baserunning screw up per-game,” montra that the Vols seem to have adopted this season struck, as Dreiling got picked off at first. The Vols started the second inning strong, as freshman Dylan Dreiling knocked a lead-off base hit toward third base. For some reason, Pearson’s hit was labeled a double instead of an error, but either way, an absolutely inexcusable mistake from the defense.īurns ended up getting all three outs via Ks, but LSU pushed across three runs on four hits and led 3-1 after the first. Then Burns gave up three-straight doubles: one to Tommy White, another to five-hitter Cade Beloso and then one to Josh Pearson that was an infield pop up that five Tennessee fielders watched hit the ground in between them. The Tigers answered promptly - Chase Burns struck out the lead-off man, but then gave up an 0-2 double to Tre’ Morgan before striking out Dylan Crews. Unfortunately, Christian Moore struck out swinging and Blake Burke and Jared Dickey grounded out to end the inning. Leadoff hitter Maui Ahuna took a 3-2 pitch outta the park, to straight-away center for a home run in the top of the first inning. Unlike last night, when neither team scored a run until the fifth, the second game of the series started out with some fireworks. LSU roughed up Tennessee starter Chase Burns for seven hits and five runs in 3.1 innings, the Vols made two fielding errors, LSU’s offense had nine extra-base hits and the Tigers took the game 6-4 to win the series. ![]()
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