In entrance of the second largest crowd in LSU program historical past of 12,892 at Alex Field Stadium, No. 5 LSU placed on a laser present, however the No. 6 Florida Gators silenced the Tiger followers Saturday night time due to a two-run residence run from Jac Caglianone within the eleventh inning for a 6-4 win.
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Cue The Tiger Launch Pad
Freshman right-hander Liam Peterson ran his fastball as much as 98 mph and labored breaking ball to start out the sport for Florida (13-9, 3-2 SEC), however three Tigers belted residence runs in two innings to get Peterson off the mound and into the dugout.
Consecutive leadoff homers within the fourth and fifth from Hayden Travinski and Mac Bingham, respectively, adopted by one other moonshot from Jared Jones pushed LSU (19-5, 2-3) out to a 4-2 lead.
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Peterson’s day was completed after tossing 4 1/3 innings, giving up 4 runs on eight hits, placing out 4 whereas strolling three on 92 pitches.
Received’t Again Down
From there Peterson was picked up, as 5 relievers got here out of the Gators’ bullpen to mix for six shutout innings.
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After giving up eight hits, UF allowed simply three the remainder of the sport.
Frank Menendez inherited two runners and escaped the inning. He confronted simply two extra batters within the sixth earlier than passing the ball off to a different freshman in Luke McNeillie with a runner on first.
McNeillie continued his revenge tour out of the pen, with 2 1/3 innings and giving up two hits in 10 batters confronted.
Grayson Smith tapped in for one batter earlier than Brandon Neely entered within the ninth to close down the guts of the LSU lineup, together with Jones and Travinski.
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Ryan Slater (2-0) completed off the remainder of the Tigers, selecting up the win in two innings of labor within the tenth and eleventh innings, surrendering a sole hit and placing out two.
Hitting Matchups
After a season-high 16 strikeouts and leaving six runners on base in a 6-1 Sport 1 loss Friday, the Gators have been a mixed 8-for-41 on the plate (.195 avg.) Saturday, matching a season-high 16 strikeouts in two extra innings and leaving 12 runners on base.
On the flip facet, LSU barely edged Florida with 11 hits in 41 at bats (.268 avg.) and stranding 11 runners.
Nonetheless, the Gators’ hits got here later within the sport when wanted most.
Early Missed Alternatives
In try to shake issues up, coach Kevin O’Sullivan adjusted the batting order with Colby Shelton and Ty Evans on the high adopted by Caglianone within the No. 3 gap.
Within the first and third inning, the Gators squandered possibilities by stranding a runner in scoring place with lower than two outs.
The fourth inning was a distinct story.
LSU’s beginning pitcher Gage Leap briefly fell aside, giving up consecutive walks to Caglianone, Tyler Shelnut and Luke Heyman to load the bases with no outs for Cade Kurland.
Kurland labored a tricky at bat, grounding right into a double play to herald a run, adopted by a RBI line drive to middle area by Dale Thomas to offer the Gators their first lead of the sequence, 2-1.
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That Man Ty
Florida wouldn’t strike once more till the eighth inning, when Ty Evans, who was 3-for-6 with an RBI, stored his sizzling bat going. Evans led off with a hustle double, shifting to 3rd by Caglianone slipping a ball previous a shifted Tiger protection and a two-out dropped third strike on Kurland that bounced away from the catcher to let Evans skate throughout the plate to tug inside one at 4-3.
Within the ninth, Evans clutched up once more with a two-out line drive to middle area that scored pinch-hitter Ashton Wilson, who had walked, to drive further innings.
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After Caglianone scorched a 116 mph two-run homer over the centerfield wall within the eleventh to place the Gators up 6-4, Evans added to the present with an exceptional seize in foul territory within the backside of the eleventh, because the Gators evened the sequence.
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Up Subsequent
The sequence finale favors the Gators statistically on the mound with Caglianone (2-0, 1.77 ERA) going through LSU’s righty Thatcher Hurd (1-2, 6.55). The decisive Sport 3 is about for 3 p.m. ET on the SEC Community, ESPN 98.1-FM/850-AM WRUF.
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