Top-Ranked Tigers Open SEC Series Thursday Night vs. No. 9 Tennessee

No. 9 Tennessee (20-6, 3-3 SEC) at No. 1 LSU (22-3, 4-2 SEC)

DATES/TIMES
• Thursday, March 30 @ 7 p.m. CT (ESPNU)
• Friday, March 31 @ 6 p.m. CT (SEC Community)
• Saturday, April 1 @ 1 p.m. CT (SEC Community +)
STADIUM
• Alex Field Stadium, Skip Bertman Discipline (10,326)
RANKINGS
• LSU – No. 1 in all school baseball polls
• UT – No. 9 USA At the moment, No. 10 D1 Baseball, No. 11 Baseball America
RADIO
• LSU Sports activities Radio Community associates, together with 98.1 in Baton Rouge
• Reside audio for LSU video games at www.LSUsports.internet/dwell; Reside stats for LSU video games at www.LSUstats.com
TV/ONLINE
• Thursday – ESPNU
• Friday – SEC Community
• All three video games can be streamed dwell on SEC Community +

LSU SERIES RECORD VS. TENNESSEE
• LSU leads the all-time collection with Tennessee, 58-28 … LSU has gained 14 of its final 21 video games versus UT; nevertheless, Tennessee has gained the final six conferences, together with a 5-2 victory final season within the SEC Match in Hoover, Ala. … the Vols gained 5 straight video games over the Tigers in 2021, sweeping a three-game SEC regular-season collection and a two-game NCAA Tremendous Regional – all 5 video games have been performed in Knoxville … this weekend’s collection marks Tennessee’s first look in Baton Rouge since 2018, when LSU recorded a three-game sweep over the Vols.

PITCHING MATCHUPS
Sport 1
LSU – Jr. RH Paul Skenes (5-0, 0.72 ERA, 37.1 IP, 7 BB, 71 SO)
UT – Jr. RH Chase Dollander (4-2, 3.93 ERA, 34.1 IP, 8 BB, 53 SO)

Sport 2
LSU – Jr. RH Ty Floyd (4-0, 2.05 ERA, 26.1 IP, 9 BB, 31 SO
UT – So. RH Chase Burns (2-1, 4.15 ERA, 34.2 IP, 9 BB, 59 SO)

Sport 3
LSU – So. RH Thatcher Hurd (2-0, 3.91 ERA, 23.0 IP, 15 BB, 32 SO)
UT – So. RH Drew Beam (3-1, 2.54 ERA, 28.1 IP, 8 BB, 27 SO)

QUOTING COACH JAY JOHNSON
“I feel our guys have accomplished an important job respecting the schedule and have proven up able to play, able to compete. We’re going through an extremely gifted opponent with an important pitching employees, top-of-the-line staffs within the nation. They’ve an explosive place participant group, they usually know tips on how to win, so it’s going to be a enjoyable weekend, and I do know our gamers are trying ahead to it. We’ve obtained seven extra SEC weekends similar to this one arising, so we’ll deal with this one, assault it, and transfer on to the subsequent one.”

ABOUT LSU 
• LSU has gained 4 of its final 5 video games, together with an SEC collection victory over No. 3 Arkansas final weekend and a 17-5 win over Grambling on Tuesday evening … LSU’s 22-3 report is the Tigers’ greatest by means of 25 video games for the reason that 2015 crew additionally posted a 22-3 mark.
• LSU, which has been ranked No. 1 all season by all the school baseball polls, enters the Tennessee collection at or close to the highest of a number of NCAA statistical classes … the Tigers are No. 1 within the nation in fielding proportion (.988), on-base proportion (.465) runs scored (278) and shutouts pitched (7) … LSU is No. 2 within the nation in batting common (.339), hits allowed per 9 innings (5.83) and scoring common (11.1 runs per recreation); No. 3 in WHIP (1.06); and No. 4 in slugging proportion (.597).
• LSU centerfielder Dylan Crews is No. 1 within the nation in batting common (.542), on-base proportion (.667) and in runs scored (48), and he’s No. 2 in slugging proportion (.988) and hits (45) … third baseman Tommy White is No. 1 within the nation in RBI per recreation (1.91) and No. 2 in complete RBI (42) … right-hander Paul Skenes leads the nation in strikeouts (71), hits allowed per 9 innings (3.38) and WHIP (0.56) … Skenes is No 2 within the nation in ERA (0.72) … right-hander Ty Floyd is No. 5 within the nation in hits allowed per 9 innings (4.10).
• Junior centerfielder Dylan Crews led the top-ranked Tigers to 3 wins in 4 video games final week, together with an SEC collection victory over third-ranked Arkansas … within the Arkansas collection, Crews batted .615 (8-for-13) with three homers, seven RBI, seven runs, a .667 on-base proportion and a 1.308 slugging proportion … Crews enters this weekend’s collection versus Tennessee driving a 23-game hitting streak and a 29-game reached base streak; the reached base streak contains all 25 video games this season and the ultimate 4 video games of the 2022 season.
• Graduate first baseman/DH Cade Beloso began in Video games 2 and three of the Arkansas collection and responded by batting .571 (4-for-7) with one double and two RBI … sophomore third baseman Tommy White launched two homers, together with his second grand slam of the season, and picked up eight RBI in LSU’s collection win over Arkansas … first baseman/leftfielder Tre’ Morgan batted .385 (5-for-13) within the Arkansas collection with one triple, one homer, two RBI and 5 runs scored … second baseman Gavin Dugas homered twice and picked up 4 RBI vs. the Razorbacks.
• Junior right-hander Paul Skenes pitched seven innings in Sport 1 of the Arkansas collection on Friday, permitting only one run on two hits with three walks and 12 strikeouts … junior right-hander Ty Floyd defeated the Razorbacks within the first recreation of Saturday’s doubleheader, working 6.1 innings and limiting the Razorbacks to 1 earned run on three hits with two walks and 7 strikeouts.
• Junior right-hander Garrett Edwards pitched in each video games of Saturday’s doubleheader vs. Arkansas, working a complete of 4.2 scoreless innings and permitting simply two hits with one stroll and eight strikeouts … freshman left-hander Griffin Herring posted two reduction wins final week over Central Arkansas and Arkansas, pitching a mixed 4.1 innings and permitting one run on three hits with two walks and 5 strikeouts.

ABOUT TENNESSEE
• Tennessee is 3-3 within the SEC after being swept at Missouri to start league play and recording a three-game sweep of Texas A&M final weekend in Knoxville … the Volunteers leads the SEC with a 2.62 crew ERA, and Tennessee is No. 11 within the league in batting common at .294 … the Vols have launched 51 homers and have recorded 36 stolen bases in 43 makes an attempt.
• Tennessee right-handers Chase Burns (59 Ks) and Chase Dollander (53 Ks) are second and fourth, respectively, within the SEC in strikeouts.
• First baseman Blake Burke is batting .337 and he leads UT in homers (10) and RBI (28) … infielder Christian Moore is batting a team-high .360, and he has recorded 4 doubles, 5 homers, 19 RBI, 29 runs and 11 steals in 12 makes an attempt.