After a dramatic 7-6 win over Texas last night, the LSU Tigers look to hoist the college baseball championship trophy tonight.

All that it will take, is a “W”, and after winning every game since a 4-1 loss to Vanderbilt in the opening round of the SEC tournament, the Tigers are not strangers to winning.

Last night’s game saw the Tigers tie the game at 6-6 in the top of the ninth inning after being down 6-4 to the Texas Longhorns. The Longhorns failed to score in the bottom of the ninth and the game went into extra innings, after having runners in scoring position in the tenth inning, the Tigers finally went ahead 7-6 in the top of the eleventh.

Texas failed to score once more and the Tigers got the win

Now, after winning the first game out of the best of three series, LSU just needs a win tonight to win it all after starting the season ranked at #1 by most college baseball publications.

They never dropped below #5 all season and spent most of their time at the #2 spot.

First pitch of tonight’s game is at 6:00 PM CST.

Austin Ross will pitch for the Tigers.

First Round: Jared Mitchell OF, Chicago White Sox

Second Round: DJ LeMahieu 2nd Base, Chicago Cubs

Fifth Round: Louis Coleman P, Kansas City Royals

Fifth Round: Ryan Schimph OF, IF, Toronto Blue Jays

Tenth Round: Blake Dean OF, Minnesota Twins

Eleventh Round: Sean Ochinko 1st Base, C, Toronta Blue Jays

The draft will continue on Thursday with Rounds 31-50.

The LSU Fighting Tigers baseball team is headed for Omaha and the College World Series for the second consecutive season.

Last year, the Tigers were joined by Georgia but this year Ole Miss and Arkansas will also play in Omaha.

In the first round of last year’s competition, LSU lost to North Carolina and then beat Rice in a bottom of the ninth comeback in which Blake Dean hit a ball off of the wall to score three runs and secure the loser’s bracket win for the Tigers.

The Tigers then lost once again to North Carolina.

This season, the Tigers haven’t lost a game since suffering a 4-1 loss inflicted by Vanderbilt in the first round of the SEC tournament, the Tigers then beat Vandy after advancing through the loser’s bracket to the SEC tournament championship game.

To advance to the CWS, the Tigers beat Rice for the first time ever in the Super Regionals in Baton Rouge taking the first two games of the best of three series.

The Tigers will play against Virginia on Saturday at 6 PM at Rosenblatt Stadium in Omaha.

In honor of LSU winning the SEC tournament, we’re going to post a video from April 29, 2009. In it, Ryan Schimph homers in the 5th inning and Blake Dean, the next batter up, knocks one over too.

Then, they come back up to bat while its still the 5th inning and both hit another homer.

Also, since Dean’s grand slam attempt fell just short of the wall yesterday, we decided to post Dean’s grand slam last year against Alabama in the SEC tournament.

After being ranked at #1 in college baseball preseason rankings, the LSU Fighting Tigers showed that they were for real after making their way to the SEC Championship game through the loser’s bracket.

In the first round, the Tigers were beaten by the Vanderbilt Commodores by a final score of 4-1. The Tigers then beat the Alabama Crimson Tide and the South Carolina Gamecocks in elimination games.

On Saturday, the Tigers began a game against the Georgia Bulldogs shorty after 1:00 PM CST and quickly racked up 7 runs in the first inning.

The game was then delayed by rain for over 4 hours.

The Tigers finished the game with a final score of 16-0 in seven innings and then went on to play the Bulldogs again in an elimination game around 45 minutes after the first game had finished.

The second game ended shortly before midnight when Ryan Schimph called off catcher Micah Gibbs and caught a pop up in the 7th inning.

The Tigers won with a final score of 3-2.

LSU then went on to face Vanderbilt again in the SEC Championship game and beat the Commodores with a final score of 6-2 to win their second consecutive SEC Championship.

Alabama is the only other team to ever do this.

LSU’s Mikie Mahtook (above) was named the Most Valuable Player of the tournament.

 

Hi Tiger fans. I’ve been away from a computer for a while but have gotten back just in time to cover the baseball team’s postseason run which will hopefully include a trip to Omaha.

Check back soon for updates on our Tigers.

It wasn’t pretty and neither dominated the game, but in the end, the #2 ranked LSU Fighting Tigers scratched and clawed their way to an 8-5 victory over the #29 ranked Alabama Crimson Tide at Sewell-Thomas Stadium in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

With the win, LSU’s record improves to 25-8 overall and 9-4 in SEC play.

The Tigers led the ballgame by a score of 2-1 until the seventh inning when LSU righthanded pitcher Paul Bertuccini gave up an RBI to the nation’s homerun hitting leader, Kent Matthes which was just short of being a grand slam.

The next Alabama batter, first baseman Brandon May then slammed a three run homer over the left field wall to give the Crimson Tide a 5-2 lead over the Tigers.

In the top of the eighth inning, Leon Landry (above) scored a run on a single and then a three base error after Alex Kubal missed the ball in what should have been an in the park homerun. Jared Mitchell and Ryan Schimph then hit back to back singles. LSU designated hitter Blake Dean then hit an infied RBI and brought Mitchell home to cut ‘Bama’s lead to 5-4.

LSU first baseman Sean Ochinko was retired by the Tide to end the inning.

Alabama failed to score in the bottom of the eighth and LSU came to bat in the top of the ninth.

LSU catcher Micah Gibbs reached second after hitting a double and then with two down and with Gibbs on third, Alabama shortstop Josh Rutledge charged and dropped a hit by Mikie Mahtook allowing Mahtook to reach first base and Gibbs to reach home plate to score the tying run.

LSU third baseman Tyler Hanover was walked and then Jared Mitchell hit a double to score Mahtook and Hanover. Schimph, who had led off the inning, hit an RBI single to score Mitchell and to bring the game to its final score of 8-5.

In the bottom of the ninth, ‘Bama struck out, flied out, and was tagged out at first base by Ochinko.

The game was the first in a three game weekend SEC series between the two teams in Tuscaloosa.

Saturday’s game begins at 6:06 PM and will be televised by Cox Sports Telivision and Comcast Sports South and can be heard on the LSU Sports Radio Network.

Its a matchup of the only SEC teams to make the College World Series last year and its the biggest series that LSU has played this year.

On Friday, the #2 ranked LSU Fighting Tigers will step up to the plate against the #1 ranked Georgia Bulldogs at Foley Field in Athens, Georgia.

Friday night’s game will begin at 6:00 PM, Saturday’s game will begin at 12:00 PM, and Sunday’s version of the series will begin at 11:00 AM.

LSU will send sophomore pitcher Anthony Ranaudo to the mound as they have done throughout most of the Friday night games this year.

Probable starters for Saturday and Sunday are Louis Coleman and Austin Ross who was named SEC Pitcher of the Week last week after his outing against Ole Miss.