Following a rough outing against No. 1 TCU, No. 4 LSU handed the ball to its senior southpaw Jared Poche’.
With Poche’ on the mound, the Tigers responded with a 4-0 win over the Baylor Bears on Saturday at Minute Maid Park.
Poche’ entered Saturday’s game having yet to allow a run come across home plate this season.
He kept that streak going.
Poche threw seven innings and recorded five strikeouts, no walks, three hits and no runs on 84 pitches. He now holds a lengthy streak of 22 scoreless innings on the mound.
Through four innings, both teams remained scoreless, and LSU had only two hits.
In the fifth inning, LSU received a spark from freshman first baseman Jake Slaughter and senior designated hitter Jordan Romero.
Slaughter and Jordan Romero singled in back-to-back at-bats put runners on first and second for LSU.
Senior second baseman Cole Freeman put LSU on the board with his RBI single.
Sophomore center fielder Antoine Duplantis followed Freeman with another RBI single to right field that scored Romero. LSU went ahead 2-0 entering the seventh inning.
The trend carried over to the sixth.
Junior right fielder Greg Deichmann delivered his fifth home run of the year, that put LSU up 3-0.
With runners on first and second base, senior left fielder Beau Jordan reached first on an infield single and Romero tacked on another run for the Tigers, who took a 4-0 lead into the seventh inning.
Sophomore pitcher Caleb Gilbert came on to pitch the final two innings for LSU and allowed no runs from Baylor.
LSU now faces No. 21 Texas Tech on Sunday at 10 a.m. at Minute Maid Park in its final game at the Shriners Hospitals for Children College Classic.