Top of the 6th: *Foul out (1 out) *Fly out (2 outs) *Ground out (3 outs) ND 5-7-1 LSU 0-2-0 Headed to the bottom of the 6th...
Bottom of the 6th: *Ross singled *Sciambra flied out *Foster flied out *Jones flied out ND 5-7-1 LSU 0-3-0 Headed to the top of the 7th...
Top of the 7th: *Single *FC, runner advances to 2nd (1 out) *Ground out, runner advances to 3rd (2 outs) *Single, advances to 2nd on E, run scores *Walk, advances to 2nd on WP, runner steals 3rd and scores *Ground out (3 outs) ND 7-9-1 LSU 0-3-1 Headed to the bottom of the 7th... LSU has played only two really bad games this year. This is one of them.
Bottom of the 7th: *Katz grounds out *Rhymes grounds out *Nola walks *Hanover flied out ND 7-9-1 LSU 0-3-1 Headed to the top of the 8th...
Top of the 8th: *Fly out (1 out) *Single, advanced to 2nd on WP *Fly out (2 outs) *Ground out (3 outs) ND 7-10-1 LSU 0-3-1 Headed to the bottom of the 8th... This isn't looking good but then again...you can't have an awesome comeback if you're not in a big hole to begin with. Let's make history Tigers!!!
Bottom of the 8th: *Dozar flied out *Ross doubles *Sciambra singled, Ross advanced to 3rd *Foster doubles (RUN SCORES), Sciambra advances to 3rd *Jones struck out (on 3 pitches :cuss *Katz struck out (looking :cuss ND 7-10-1 LSU 1-6-1 Headed to the top of the 9th...
Top of the 9th: *Ground out (1 out) *Single *Strike out (2 outs) *Walk, runners at 1st & 2nd *Fly out (3 outs) ND 7-11-1 LSU 1-6-1 Headed to the bottom of the 9th... We need a TD and Extra Point to win. (Too bad we're not playing their football team. That would be too easy...unless JJ came back.)
Bottom of the 9th: *Rhymes grounded out *Nola reached on an error *Hanover singled, Nola advances to 2nd *Dozar struck out *Ross singled, bases loaded *Sciambra flied out ND 7-11-2 LSU 1-8-1 FINAL We avoided the shutout but didn't do much else.
I guess if I had to choose I'd take good pitching over good hitting. On days when you got neither....
