Laird took it on the chin before becoming LSU regular Shreveport Times BATON ROUGE โ Aaron Nola walked seven batters in 89 innings as a freshman at LSU in 2012. So when lost control on a pitch and nailed freshman Mark Laird on the chin in Laird's first at-bat of fall drills in 2012, Laird did a double take as he rubbed ... and more ยป Continue reading...