LSU Baseball
LSU head coach Paul Mainieri (Source: Josh Auzenne/WAFB-TV)
By Spencer Chrisman | April 1, 2021 at 5:45 PM CDT - Updated April 1 at 10:37 PM
BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - No. 25 LSU got off to a rough start to begin the weekend series against No. 1 Vanderbilt in the third weekend of Southeastern Conference play.
The Tigers (17-9, 1-6 SEC) gave up 13 runs on 17 hits and had two errors. LSU was competitive to start the game through the first four innings against the Commodores (21-4, 6-1 SEC), as they only trailed 1-0 entering the top of the fifth inning.
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Vanderbilt scored four runs in the fifth inning to take a 5-0 lead. Jayson Gonzalez started things off with an RBI double to right field, giving Vandy a 2-0 lead. Dominic Keegan added two more runs on a two-run single to make it 4-0. Jack Bulger added one more run on a sac-fly to make it 5-0.