LSU Comes Back For 3rd Straight Time And Wins At Tennessee For 4th Victory In A Row

By GLENN GUILBEAU, Tiger Rag Editor

If Tennessee takes an early lead against LSU on Saturday, it should get worried.

The Tigers (21-10, 5-5 Southeastern Conference) came back from a deficit of three runs or more in the early-to-middle innings for the third straight time Friday night and beat Tennessee, 7-5, for their fourth straight win and fifth in the last six games.

The Tigers trailed Kentucky, 7-0, on Sunday and won, 17-10, and fell behind Southern, 6-1, before a 16-10 win on Tuesday.

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LSU snapped an eight-game losing streak at Tennessee in front of 7,195 at Lindsey Nelson Stadium. The Tigers’ previous win at Tennessee was, 10-7, on May 15, 2016, to complete a three-game sweep.

LSU and Tennessee meet again Saturday at 5 p.m. on ESPN2.

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The Volunteers (19-11, 3-7 SEC) lost their fourth straight SEC game. They led 4-1 through seven innings, but Derek Curiel hit a grand slam home run with two outs in the top of the eighth inning for a 5-4 lead off reliever Bo Rhudy, who took the loss to falll to 0-1.

Curiel also hit a grand slam Tuesday night and became the first Tiger to hit grand slams in back-to-back games since Sean Ochinko in the 2009 national championship season against Mississippi Valley State and UNO.

Then Seth Dardar followed with a solo home run for a 6-4 lead. Chris Stanfield added a solo home run in the top of the ninth for the 7-4 lead.

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Tennessee starter Landon Mack had handcuffed the Tigers through the first seven innings, allowing just one run on three hits with 10 strikeouts and one walk. But left-handed reliever Brandon Arvidson opened the eighth inning and promptly walked Mason Braun, Stanfield and Steven Milam to load the bases. After Jake Brown lined out to shortstop, Bo Rhudy replaced Arvidson and struck out Omar Serna Jr. for the second out, bringing up Curiel, who hit his fourth home run of the season.

LSU took a 1-0 lead in the third inning on a Brown home run. Levi Clark hit a two-out solo home run off LSU starter Casan Evans to tie it 1-1 in the bottom of the third.

Reese Chapman hit a two-run home run off Evans in the fourth for a 3-1 lead after Blake Grimmer singled. Santiago Garcia walked Grimmer with the bases loaded in the seventh for the 4-1 Tennessee advantage, but he ended up getting the win to go to 1-0 with just a third of an inning of work.

Tennessee drew within 7-5 in the top of the ninth on a solo home run by Grimmer off Deven Sheerin, who finished the game for his second save.

Evans allowed three runs on six hits in five and two-thirds innings with six strikeouts, two walks and two wild pitches.