The No. 15 LSU baseball team began Tuesday night’s game against New Orleans the same way it did in its previous three games — and got the same result.Two days after the Tigers (32-10) were swept by Ole Miss this past weekend, they scored first for the fourth consecutive game with nothing to show for it at the end in a 7-4 loss to the Privateers (11-29) at Alex Box Stadium.”They wanted to play very badly, and the bottom line is we didn’t,” said LSU coach Paul Mainieri. “It’s my responsibility to get the team ready to play. I didn’t have them ready tonight, and I’m ashamed of that.”With the game tied at 3-3 in the top of the eight inning, UNO took the lead for good on a sacrifice fly by first baseman Jerad Comarda off LSU junior pitcher Austin Ross and added an insurance run with left fielder Rodarrick Jones’ RBI single.Jones, the Privateers’ eighth hitter in the lineup, killed the Tigers with two singles, a double and three RBIs.”He was capable, but what’s he hitting, .220? He feasted off our pitching. I can’t explain it,” Mainieri said of Jones, who entered the game with a .248 average.The Tigers clawed back with a run in bottom of the eighth inning when LSU sophomore outfielder Mikie Mahtook beat out an infield single to make it 5-4.But the Privateers tacked on two more runs in the top of the ninth with an RBI double from center fielder Mike Petello. Then Comarda struck again, driving in his second run of the night with RBI single past a drawn-in LSU infield.After building a 3-1 lead in the second inning with a pair of RBI hits by Mahtook and sophomore shortstop Austin Nola, UNO starting pitcher Joe Zimmermann shut down LSU for the next 4 1/3 innings.”I don’t want to take anything away from him, but we weren’t taking aggressive hacks,” said Mahtook, who went 2-for-4 with two RBIs. “We didn’t go up with an aggressive mindset, and it came back to bite us.”Second baseman Nick Schwaner blasted his 15th home run of the season into the right field bleachers in the top of the third inning to close the gap to 3-2.Following a Nola error in the top of the fourth that kept the inning alive, Jones struck again for the Privateers in the top of the fourth inning. He blasted an RBI double past the outstretched arms of Mahtook in right-center field, knotting the game at three.LSU junior pitcher Daniel Bradshaw had a respectable outing in only his third start of the season for the Tigers, tossing 5 1/3 innings. He allowed three runs — two earned — on seven hits to go along with five strikeouts.Despite Bradshaw’s effort, it was the bullpen that faltered down the stretch for LSU.Ross struggled mercifully for his second straight outing.He picked up the loss in Sunday’s 7-6 loss at Ole Miss, allowing three hits, including the game-winning hit, before a single out was even recorded. It wasn’t any better Tuesday night as Ross tossed an inning of relief and gave up three runs on five hits.Mahtook, senior first baseman Blake Dean, junior catcher Micah Gibbs and freshman outfielder Alex Edward all finished with two hits for the Tigers.”We have to accept our fate because we got exactly what we deserved with the effort we put forth,” said a dejected Mainieri. “I don’t know what else to say.”The Tigers travel to the swamps of Gainesville, Fla., this weekend to take on No. 6 Florida.- – – -Contact Sean Isabella at [email protected]