Cade Arrambide made history as the first LSU player to hit four home runs in a game. The Tigers, trailing by five runs, staged an impressive rally to overcome Tennessee 16-6 in 12 innings, securing a vital series win for the Bayou Bengals.
Arrambide’s 4 home runs: LSU was down 5-0 in the 5th inning, but Arrambide started the comeback with a solo home run.
Arrambide homered again in the 7th inning as the Tigers went back-to-back-to-back to get within one run. John Pearson and Seth Dardar also homered in that inning.
Arambide homered for a third time in the 11th inning as the Tigers took a 7-6 lead. The Volunteers tied it in the bottom of the 11th inning.
And then Arambide broke the game open in the 12th inning, with an opposite-field home run off the scoreboard to give LSU an 11-6 lead. It was part of a 10-run 12th inning.
Arrambide had four homers coming into the game; he doubled that total in one game.
Homer Happy: LSU took advantage of the small dimensions at Lindsey Nelson Stadium by hitting seven home runs on Sunday. Stevan Milam, John Pearson, and Seth Dardar also homered.
LSU scored 24 runs in the series. Twenty of their 24 runs were scored as a result of home runs.
Other heroes: Arrambide is the main story, but there were other heroes.
Josh Brown’s infield single on a 1-2 count in the bottom of the ninth inning was a big at-bat.
Great pitching performances from Zac Cowan and Gavin Guidry. Cowan pitched four innings without giving up an earned run.
Gavin Guidry was the winning pitcher. Guidry was listed as the starter for game three of the series, but Coach Jay Johnson went with Grant Fontenot instead, who allowed three unearned runs in 2.2 innings.
Guidry (4-3) coming out of the pen was really good as he allowed just one earned run in 5.1 innings.
Sunday Funday: LSU has played three SEC games on Sundays, and they’ve scored 49 runs.
Comeback Tigers: LSU pulled off some minor miracles during Holy Week.
Sunday, March 29: Kentucky led 7-0 in the 3rd inning, came back to win 17-10
Tuesday, March 31: Southern led 6-1 in the 3rd inning, came back to win 16-6 in 7 innings.
Friday, April 3: Tennessee led 4-1 in the 8th inning, came back to win 7-5.
Sunday, April 5: Tennessee led 5-1 in the 7th inning, came back to win 16-6 in 12 innings.
Jay Johnson didn’t see the end of this one: Arrambide went 5-for-6 with four home runs and 7 RBIs. The one-time Tennessee got him out was on a questionable called third strike that looked low. Johnson quickly came out of the dugout to let home plate umpire Eric Goshay know it was a ball. Johnson got right in Goshay’s face. It was a short argument, but it got the Tigers fired up as LSU was still able to push across the tying run in the ninth inning.
What it means: LSU is 6-6 in SEC play with another road series coming up next week at Ole Miss. The Tigers have shown the ability to come from behind, they score runs in bunches, and there’s plenty of pitching for this team to make a deep run.
Need to clean up the defense! Four more errors on Sunday as only one of Tennessee’s runs was earned
This team deserves credit for consistently battling back and never giving up, regardless of setbacks.
