Baseball Swept for A Third Consecutive Weekend

The 2026 LSU Baseball team isn’t just bad, they are now awful at historic levels. The Tigers (24-21, 6-15) were swept for a third consecutive weekend, this time on the road in Starkville, and have now lost a program-record nine straight SEC games. Even more agonizing for LSU is the Tigers scored three runs in the first inning of all three games, only to lose every game.

Friday: Mississippi State 10, LSU 8 (11 innings) In hindsight, Friday should have served as an omen of things to come this weekend. Casan Evans was a last-minute scratch from his normal Friday start after some right arm discomfort following some pregame stretching. The LSU pitching staff, already down one starter for the rest of the season, would try and have to survive two different bullpen games and couldn’t get it done.

LSU led 7-4 after four innings and had an 8-7 lead going into the bottom of the ninth but couldn’t hold either lead. Bulldog catcher Kevin Milewski hit a walk-off two-run homer off of Zac Cowan in the 11th to win the opener for Mississippi State. Saturday: Mississippi State 9, LSU 8 Stop me when you’ve heard this before: William Schmidt was pretty good, but incredibly inefficient.

Schmidt threw 89 pitches in which he struck out five, walked three, allowed three hits and two runs…and only lasted four innings. For an LSU pitching staff that used seven pitchers in Friday night’s extra innings game, the team desperately needed a quality start from Schmidt, but instead he only got LSU 12 outs. Even without Schmidt not eating as many outs as you would like, LSU still had a 7-2 lead after five innings and couldn’t hold onto that one either.