LSU Shuts Out Little Rock in Game 1 Baton Rouge Regional

After five hours and 36 minutes, the LSU Tigers and the Little Rock Trojans finally took to the field for the first game in the Baton Rouge regional series.

With a surprise decision to start Anthony Eyanson, he took to the mound and provided 7.2 innings, no runs, only one walk and seven strikeouts. He gave the Trojans no room to add runs on the board.

"I just execute and slow it down, and just go at it and be aggressive," said Eyanson " I am super blessed to be able to go out and do what the team needs."

On the offensive side, it was something that needed work after being shut out against Ole Miss in the semifinals of the SEC Tournament. However, the bats were alive on Friday evening; the issue was that runners were often stranded on base in scoring positions.

Through three innings, the score held 2-0, and the Trojans just could not get runners to the home plate. Striking out, stranding runners and popping balls out there were no runs getting on the board for Little Rock

In the fifth inning, Daniel Dickinson swings with a 2-1 count and hits a single homer to left field, and just when the fans thought he was done. In the bottom of the sixth with 0-1 count and two outs, he homers again to left field, sending Curiel back to the dugout as well.

If the fans at Alex Box weren’t already rowdy after a challenge of Stanfield safe at home just seconds prior, the deafening noise let the Trojans know it was Tiger territory and there was going to be no letting up.

Through six innings, the Tigers had only experienced two scoreless innings, and there was nothing but pure fire that kept going as the clock struck closer to the infamous 1:17 a.m. mark that is known too well in the Box.

As the game is drawing towards the end, in the top of the seventh, Eyanson delivered an eight-pitch inning, sending a quick scoreless inning for the Trojans to put the Tigers back up in the box and keeping him alive with a pitch count of 91 through seven.

In the seventh inning, the score holds 7-0, with two runners on base after Braswell doubles and an intentional walk of Curiel. Jared Jones steps up to the plate with the potential and chance of ending this game in the seventh.

With a 1-1 count, Jones swings the ball, and the crack of the bat, the ball soars to the right field but is just short of the homer line. Sending the Tigers back to the defense, and just three runs short of the mercy rule.

Two pitching changes later, LSU is now in the top of the eighth with freshman Mavrik Rizy on the mound. He delivers a three-up, three-down performance to end the game with a score of 7-0.

The Tigers will move on to play the winner of game two of Dallas Baptist and Rhode Island.