LSU Sweeps the Reigning College World Series Champions

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#1 ranked LSU finally gets an SEC series sweep and brings their SEC series record to 5-0-1, SEC record to 12-5, and overall record to 32-7. Dylan Crews has given evidence that he is the next coming of Christ as he went 7-for-13 slashing .538/.600/1.154 for an OPS of 1.754 this series. I would usually do the series MVP at the end of the blog, but it's pretty obvious who it is. Not that no one else did well, but Crews was just on a completely different level. In fact, there were a lot of good performances this weekend. 

I'm not going give a play by play of every game this time, I just have some notes I would like to share. The first note is that are we running Paul Skenes into the ground? No matter what his line is, he is always pitching 6 innings, except for the South Carolina rain delay, which isn't a high number of innings, but in those 6 innings, he's always throwing around 100 pitches. In a full game, his pitch count has ranged from as low as 80 to as high as 117, which was in his most recent start against Ole Miss. This can not possibly be healthy for his arm. Even games in hand, we're still trotting him out there to throw 20 more pitches. I think the best course of action with unranked teams coming up is to limit him to either 5 IP or 90 pitches to save him for the SEC Tournament and Regionals. 

I can't believe I've gone this long without mentioning the pair of grand slams this weekend. In game 1, Tommy White comes up with the bases loaded, losing 3-2, and he clobbers the first pitch he sees right over the batter's eye to give us a 6-3 advantage. We go on to win game 1 7-3. The second grand slam was hit by the second coming of Christ himself, Dylan Crews, who had already had a homerun the prior inning in the 1st.

Our 3rd base coach is braindead sending Tre Morgan home on blooper. It didn't end up costing us the game, but he didn't know that at the time. This isn't even the first offense. He's made base running blunders before; sometimes twice in one game. As far as Javen Coleman, he sucks. Not only does he suck, but he needs to get kicked off the team. I don't want to see him anymore. Maybe in a mop role for midweek games, but not in any high leverage, or even medium leverage situation. He has a 9.00 on the season after giving up 3 earned in only 2 innings. His only decent start came against ULL in which he only pitched 1 inning, so let's limit him to that. I don't care that he's coming back from injury or that he needs time to improve. We don't have much time. We only have a few series left before the SEC Tournament. It's a shame we don't have minor league affiliates like they do in the majors so we can just send him down to Baton Rouge Community College to figure it out.

However, Javen Coleman was no match for our offense. They didn't care that they were down 6-4 entering the 9th inning. They didn't care that they had already won the series. They wanted the sweep. Beloso and Thompson both get out which leaves us with 1 out to work with. Jarred Jones walks (Stevenson pinch runs for him) and then Brayden Jobert, surprise surprise, gets hit by pitch, which moves Stevenson to 2nd (Merrifield pinch runs). Which would now bring up Milazzo, but Jay Johnson decided to pinch hit Hayden Travinski who has very few at bats this year (only 16 coming into the day). It looks like the game is over; Travinski will probably strike out to strand the tying run at 1st and we'll have to wait a little long to sweep an SEC series. But no. Travinski becomes Mr. Clutch and bring them both home including himself on a ball crushed to left field. We would finish the bottom of the 9th, winning 7-6. Nobody said it would be easy.

LSU will come home for the weekend series against unranked Alabama starting Friday at 6 pm. 
Dayne is a senior psychology major at Louisiana State University. He is originally from New Orleans and attended high school at Holy Cross. Other teams he likes are the Red Sox, Saints, Patriots, Bruins, Pelicans, and Celtics. He also has a career .500 batting average.

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