BATON ROUGE, La. – LSU right-hander Luke Holman fired a career-high 13 strikeouts in six innings Friday evening, because the fourth-ranked Tigers posted a 6-1 over No. 6 Florida in Alex Field Stadium, Skip Bertman Discipline.
LSU improved to 19-4 total, 2-2 within the SEC, whereas Florida dropped to 12-9 total, 2-2 in convention play.
The groups meet in Sport 2 of the sequence at 6 p.m. CT Saturday in a contest that will likely be broadcast on the LSU Sports activities Radio Community and streamed on SEC Community +.
Holman (5-1) restricted the Gators to 1 run on one hit in six innings with three walks and 13 strikeouts, surpassing his former profession better of 12 strikeouts recorded towards Texas on March 1.
Left-hander Griffin Herring earned his second save of the season for the Tigers, working the ultimate 3.0 scoreless innings and yielding simply three hits with no walks and three strikeouts.
“A extremely good efficiency by Luke and by Griffin,” mentioned LSU coach Jay Johnson. “The frequent denominator was they crammed up the strike zone. Luke received 13 of his 18 outs with strikeouts by simply flooding the zone, and Griffin was nice getting forward within the depend. When he wanted to make a pitch to tip the depend in our favor, he did.”
LSU leftfielder Mac Bingham drove in two runs from the lead-off spot within the Tigers’ order, and rightfielder Josh Pearson, designated hitter Ethan Frey, shortstop Michael Braswell III and centerfielder Paxton Kling every contributed one RBI.
Florida beginning pitcher Cade Fisher (2-2) was charged with the loss, as he surrendered 5 runs on 5 hits in 5.0 innings with two walks and 5 strikeouts.
“Fisher is an efficient pitcher, we noticed him twice in Omaha final yr,” Johnson mentioned. “It’s important to be very disciplined, as a result of he has slider and locates his fastball rather well on the backside of the zone. I assumed we took actually good at-bats, and it was nice to see.
“I like these video games the place you set up six runs towards workforce while not having a house run. We had some clutch hitting and took benefit of some free bases; only a actually good efficiency by our workforce offensively.”
The Tigers grabbed a 2-0 lead within the first towards Fisher when each Pearson and Frey delivered two-out RBI singles.
Rightfielder Ty Evans homered for Florida within the fourth to slender the hole to 2-1, however LSU struck for 3 runs within the sixth as Braswell III drew a bases-loaded stroll, Kling lifted a sacrifice fly and Bingham smacked an RBI single.
Bingham’s RBI double within the eighth prolonged the Tigers’ result in 6-1.