LSU and Tennessee baseball coaches and players haven’t made too much of Tennessee’s sweeping of the Tigers at Lindsey Nelson Stadium in late March, and that series will be even less relevant Saturday night once the two collide in an NCAA tournament super regional opener.
The Volunteers won those three games by a combined four runs.
“I think that we’ve changed a lot,” LSU junior center fielder Drew Bianco said this week on a Zoom call, “but if you look back at that series, we got walked off twice in one day, which sucked. If a couple of plays go our way, we win that series.
“That was the second weekend of SEC play, so we’re not the same team and neither is Tennessee.”
Tennessee’s sweep of LSU resulted in the Vols posting a 5-1 start to league play and the Tigers stumbling out to 1-5. That 1-5 would become 1-8 after another sweep the following weekend against Vanderbilt, but LSU won four of its last five SEC series – losing only to top-ranked Arkansas – to achieve a more respectable 13-17 conference mark.