Scooter Hobbs

3 weeks ago | americanpress.com | Scooter Hobbs

Published 2:59 am Sunday, March 30, 2025 SATURDAY’S GAME: LSU 17, Miss. State 8Late Saturday night LSU led by five runs before Mississippi State recorded an out and eventually sent 12 men to the plate while scoring eight runs in the first inning. The Tigers then spent the rest of the game searching for strikes out of its bullpen.

3 weeks ago | americanpress.com | Scooter Hobbs

Published 1:52 am Saturday, March 29, 2025 FRIDAY’S GAME:  LSU 2, Miss. State 1SATURDAY’S GAME: 2 p.m. (tentative) / SECN+LSU needed a pair of long Jacks to beat Mississippi State’s Ace Friday. The Tigers got solo home runs from Ethan Frey and Luis Hernandez off of reigning SEC pitcher the week Pico Kohn as LSU edged the Bulldogs 2-1. But in the end the Tigers, who probably faced the best arm they’ve seen yet this year, needed a couple of aces up their own sleeves too.

4 weeks ago | americanpress.com | Scooter Hobbs

Published 12:14 am Friday, March 28, 2025 THURSDAY’S GAME:  LSU 8, Miss. State 6FRIDAY’S GAME: 6:30 p.m. / SECN+It was looking pretty bleak for LSU Thursday night. But the Tigers hit two of their three home runs in a five-run fifth inning to rally for an 8-6 win over Mississippi State in the opening game of the Southeastern Conference series. They still needed a masterful relief performance from Zac Cowan, who shut out the Bulldogs over the final four innings to improve to 24-3, 5-2 in the SEC.

4 weeks ago | americanpress.com | Scooter Hobbs

Published 11:50 am Thursday, March 27, 2025 In some ways, this is the kind of weekend that lured a West Coaster like Jay Johnson from the Arizona desert to the bayous of Louisiana. The real allure was the opportunity to coach in the Southeastern Conference. And you can’t spell SEC baseball without …“The SEC was built, I think, on LSU and Mississippi State,” Johnson said. He was paying attention when Ron Polk was seemingly the first to take the sport seriously at Mississippi State.

1 month ago | americanpress.com | Scooter Hobbs

Published 7:13 pm Sunday, March 23, 2025 SUNDAY’S GAME: Texas 6, LSU 2Good pitching lived up to the cliché and beat the Southeastern Conference’s top hitting team Sunday as Texas stymied LSU 6-2 to take the weekend series two games to one. LSU, which came into the weekend batting .345, managed only seven hits in the rubber game — none after closing the gap to 5-2 in the sixth inning. Texas’ Rugar Riojas (5-1), making his first start as a Longhorn, struck out six Tigers in his 5 1/3 innings.