Jay Johnson and Co. open SEC play on Friday night in Nashville, eyeing a strong start to conference play against the Commodores.
The LSU Tigers will square off against the Vanderbilt Commodores on Friday night at Charles Hawkins Field in Nashville to open Southeastern Conference play this season. After a rollercoaster non-conference slate for Jay Johnson and the LSU Tigers, the program will now shift focus towards the SEC schedule with the Commodores up first on the docket.
“We’re excited to travel to Nashville, get the lay of the land, and go compete against an athletic, fundamentally sound Vanderbilt team," Johnson said this week. "I’m excited to get into SEC play and compete with our team; I like where our rotation is at right now, and if we continue to get strong performances from the bullpen, we feel good about how those pieces can come together. "Offensively, we have to keep working; we have good players and we need to put them in a position to be successful, and we’re going to help them to do that.” Now, with Game 1 of the series inching closer, all eyes will be on two of the top programs in the conference with Casan Evans set to take the bump for the Tigers on Friday night.LSU – So. RH Casan Evans • Vanderbilt is 11-7 this season, and the Commodores are batting .318 as a team with 36 doubles, four triples, 44 homers and 20 steals in 25 attempts … eight Vanderbilt hitters are batting .300 or better on the year. • Infielder Ryker Waite is batting a team-high .396 with five doubles, one triple, two homers, 14 RBI and five stolen bases … utility player Braden Holcomb is hitting .353 and leads Vanderbilt in homers and RBI . • The Commodores’ pitching staff has a 3.94 cumulative ERA with 180 strikeouts in 146.1 innings while allowing just a .217 opponent batting averageZack Nagy is the Managing Editor and Publisher of LSU Country, a Sports Illustrated Publication. Nagy has covered Tiger Football, Basketball, Baseball and Recruiting, looking to keep readers updated on anything and everything involving LSU athletics.
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