Ole Miss Completes Sweep of LSU

Much like the LSU Baseball team, I’m showing up to Sunday a little later than you would have hoped. The Tigers (22-15, 6-9) lost a game they really needed to have against Ole Miss (26-11, 8-7) to complete the humiliating weekend sweep 8-7 Sunday at Swayze Field. The Tigers very nearly pulled off a second consecutive improbable Sunday comeback, but they couldn’t quite get it done.

Quite literally all of LSU’s offensive production came in the seventh inning. LSU didn’t get a base runner aboard until the fourth inning when Cade Arrambide drew a walk, and Brayden Simpson was hit by a pitch in the sixth. Then, inexplicably, LSU erupted for seven runs and eight hits all in the seventh inning.

The rally started when Derek Curiel, Arrambide, and Jake Brown launched three consecutive solo home runs to make it a 7-3 ball game. LSU would then tack on four more runs, all with two outs, to tie the game. But because this LSU team is…well, this LSU team, the momentum was immediately given back in the home half of the inning.

Hayden Federico led off the bottom of the seventh with a two-base error, and came around to score off a Brayden Randle single to left field. Remember how I said literally all of LSU’s offense came in the seventh? That proved to be a real big problem, and the Tigers went down in order in both the eighth and ninth innings.