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LSU baseball edged Arkansas in the opening game at the College World Series Saturday night. Tigers advance in winners bracket.
Here's what you need to know about LSU baseball's first game in the College World Series against Arkansas. Our LSU baseball coverage is brought to you in part by Our Lady of the Lake Health, Championship Health Partners of LSU.
Arkansas and LSU are scheduled to get underway at 6 p.m. here at Charles Schwab Field in downtown Omaha. This is the showcase game of the weekend between the two highest-seeded teams remaining in the tournament and a matchup of All-SEC pitchers Zach Root of Arkansas and Kade Anderson of LSU.
Thanks to Anderson’s outing, LSU’s pitching staff is set up well for Monday’s game. The Tigers will hand the ball to Anthony Eyanson, a SoCal native who grew up just 45 minutes from the UCLA campus in Lakewood, Calif.
In a cruel stroke of irony, it was LSU that battled the Arkansas pitchers into submission, not the other way around. The Tigers had 11 two-strike foul balls to extend at-bats and run Arkansas' pitch count up.
Olivia Dunne checked off every possible box as an LSU great and fan on Saturday night. Our LSU baseball coverage is brought to you in part by Our Lady of the Lake Health, Championship Health Partners of LSU.