Nutriaitch Posted March 8, 2019 Share Posted March 8, 2019 California pays LSU a visit this weekend beginning tonight, 7pm at The Box Radio call to be carried on affiliates of the LSU Sports Radio Network, or on the LSUsports app. Video available online only through SECN+ Weather: 69° under partly cloudy skies. Winds blowing out toward the power alley in Left Center at about 8mph (12 mph gusts) Pitchers LSU – Jr. RH Zack Hess (1-1, 5.68 ERA, 12.2 IP, 8 BB, 16 K) Cal – Jr. LH Arman Sabouri (1-1, 2.79 ERA, 9.2 IP, 2 BB, 12 K) GEAUX! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nutriaitch Posted March 8, 2019 Author Share Posted March 8, 2019 i will attempt to get updates (possibly even some PbP) into baseball topics going forward. at least when i am able to do so. others are welcomed to pitch in of course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nutriaitch Posted March 9, 2019 Author Share Posted March 9, 2019 apologies on no PbP tonight. mom not home and do. it have access to game right now. plus in a lin drunk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSUDad Posted March 9, 2019 Share Posted March 9, 2019 Bottom of 6th, LSU DOWN 3-1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSUDad Posted March 9, 2019 Share Posted March 9, 2019 3-2 bottom of the 9th. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSUDad Posted March 9, 2019 Share Posted March 9, 2019 Winner! Josh Smith hits game-winning single as LSU beats Cal BY WILSON ALEXANDER | WALEXANDER@THEADVOCATE.COM MAR 8, 2019 - 10:00 PM Buy Now LSU’s Brock Mathis (22) slides into third for a triple in the 3rd inning of LSU's game vs California Friday night in LSU's Alex Box Stadium. Cal third baseman Hance Smith (10) waits for the throw. Mathis scored when the next batter, Giovanni DiGiacomo hit a sacrifice fly into the outfiled tying the score. ADVOCATE PHOTO BY PATRICK DENNIS Wilson Alexander The bases loaded with two outs in the ninth inning and LSU trailing by one run Friday night, shortstop Josh Smith walked to the plate. He brought a 12-game hitting streak into the game, but like much of LSU’s lineup, he had not reached base yet. But Smith dropped a single into center field, scoring two runs, and LSU beat Cal 4-3 at Alex Box Stadium. The inning started with a single by pinch hitter Saul Garza. It continued when designated hitter Giovanni DiGiacomo reached on an infield single. Hal Hughes even struck out with two outs, but LSU loaded the bases because of a passed ball. When Smith’s hit — the only with a runner in scoring position by either team — fell into the outfield grass Tigers poured out of the dugout and swarmed into a mob Aside from a triple by catcher Brock Mathis, who scored on a sac fly, LSU did not record a hit against Cal starting pitcher Arman Sabouri, who threw 48 pitches through five innings. LSU didn’t register its second hit until the seventh inning, when Cade Beloso singled to right field. Chris Reid followed with a double. Dormant for much of the game, the Tigers had runners on second and third. They cut Cal’s lead to 3-2 run when Beloso scored on a sac fly from Mathis. The inning ended without LSU tying the game. An inning later, LSU put runners on first and second with one out, but again, the Tigers did not push a run across the plate. Some of Cal’s players emerged from the dugout screaming, “Let’s go.” All of this after Cal leadoff the game with a home run. Slightly hunched and standing a few feet off the mound, Zack Hess watched the ball sail out of Alex Box Stadium. He had thrown two pitches. Cal’s hitter Cameron Eden hit the second one past the Tabasco sign near center field. Foreboding sunk into the air. At the beginning of a start LSU coach Paul Mainieri called “very, very important,” the junior pitcher had allowed a home run to the first batter of the game. Except the rest of the outing did not spiral. At first, Hess seemed to lack the control LSU wants from its Friday night starter when conference play begins next week. He walked the next batter after Eden’s leadoff home run. The Golden Bears hit the ball hard throughout the first inning. Unlike some of his previous starts, Hess settled into a rhythm. He did not struggle with his mechanics like he did during the season opener. His arm did not get hit by a line drive like it did last week. Hess allowed just four batters to reach base from the second though the fifth innings. He struck out five. After recording two outs to open the sixth inning, Hess, his pitch count closing in on 90, gave up a single and a walk — both on 3-2 pitches. Aaron George entered the game. He walked the bases loaded. Then he walked in a run. Cal scored again on a passed ball before George ended the inning. But the Golden Bears did not score again, even though they put a runner on third base in the seventh and eighth innings. Then up walked Smith. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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