LSU baseball gets swept at Georgia | Takeaways from LSU's series loss

LSU baseball spent its one final push in the series opener against No. 5 Georgia. The Tigers jumped out to an early four-run lead and answered twice when the Bulldogs got a run back.

But in crunch time, like it had done a number of times before in SEC play, LSU couldn't make the pitches and get the win an 11-8 Friday night loss. In the next two games of the series , LSU stumbled out the gates by falling behind early and didn't have the firepower to fight back before getting swept for the fourth time in the last five conference series. LSU BASEBALL COVERAGE LSU baseball can't erase big early deficit to fall to Georgia: Final score Here are takeaways from LSU (29-24-9-18 SEC) getting swept at Georgia, which clinched the 2026 SEC regular season championship during the series.

LSU baseball NCAA Tournament hopes are dashed, outside of SEC Tournament run Precedent paints the picture that teams in the SEC need at minimum 12 SEC wins to earn an at-large berth to get into an NCAA regional. Even if LSU sweeps Florida in the final regular season league series at Alex Box Stadium this week, it would end the regular season with 11 conference wins. That wouldn't be enough get LSU over the bubble.

After dropping all three games at Georgia, the only path Jay Johnson and the Tigers now have to make the NCAA tournament will be to win the SEC Tournament next week in Hoover. Casan Evans returns for LSU LSU's ace Casan Evans missed the last two weekends for the Tigers after being a late scratch right before his scheduled start at Mississippi State. There wasn't anything structurally wrong with his arm and Johnson had said leading to the Georgia series that they would be smart about bringing him back with how little of the season is left.