If losing was an illness, LSU’s baseball team may as well have been bedridden, losing seven straight games.The Tigers finally found the cure Tuesday night against Southeastern Louisiana: a shot. Only the shot wasn’t at all painful, at least to the Tigers.It was a two-run, towering shot over the right field wall by talismanic senior first baseman Blake Dean in the bottom of a three-run seventh inning that gave the Tigers a 7-5 lead.No. 15 LSU (33-13) would go on to a 9-5 victory against Southeastern (33-14) in front of a crowd of 5,545, thanks in part to Dean’s 3-for-5 night that left him a triple shy of the cycle.”When Blake hit that home run, that was a feeling we haven’t felt in a while,” said LSU coach Paul Mainieri. “You need your big guys to step up, and Blake did just that.”The career night for Dean also moved him up numerous categories in the record books.  The home run was the 53rd of his illustrious career, putting him in sole possession of fourth on LSU’s all-time home run list. The two RBI on the homer gave him 246, tying him for third place all-time with Todd Walker, and the run he scored was the 206th of his career, tying him for seventh on LSU’s all-time list.Dean also hit his 63rd career double in the third inning that helped set up LSU to tie the game at 3-3 at the time. That double moved him into third all-time.”I felt like I needed to do more this game, and I got that big hit for us,” Dean said.The rest of LSU’s offense also seemed to find its way, as the Tigers collected 15 hits to feast off Southeastern pitching.Sophomore right fielder Mikie Mahtook blasted a solo home run off Southeastern starting pitcher Josh Janway in the sixth inning to tie the game at 5-5. Janway would be chased after giving up a double to the next LSU batter.”Briefly when I walked to the plate, I told myself that I wanted to tie it up,” Mahtook said. “He left it up a little bit, and I took it out.”LSU pitching also held its own for the most part.Junior starting pitcher Austin Ross went exactly four innings as planned, giving up three runs on four hits with seven strikeouts and two walks. All three of those runs were manufactured on RBI singles in the third inning and allowed Southeastern to nab a 3-2 lead.Two walks in the inning were what Ross felt hurt him.”The base hits were decent pitches, but the walks came back to get me,” Ross said.LSU used five relievers to finish the game. The help ran into trouble in the middle frames, but double plays became the Tigers’ best friend.Tiger sophomore reliever Joey Bourgeois surrendered a run to give the Lions a 4-3 lead in the fifth before loading the bases. He would induce a 4-6-3 double play to end the inning.After the Tigers tied the game back up, LSU junior reliever Ben Alsup got himself into his own quandary as he allowed Southeastern to regain the lead at 5-4. Alsup got his own double play, a 5-4-3, to end the Southeastern threat for the second-straight inning.”Our bullpen had been struggling, so we had a team meeting to say that people need to step up,” said LSU senior reliever Paul Bertuccini, who went 1 2/3 innings in his 100th career appearance.Junior pitcher Anthony Ranaudo came in the ninth to close out the game. He got two strikeouts to start the inning before giving up a walk and two singles to load the bases before getting a groundout to end the game.—-Contact Andy Schwehm at [email protected].