Live Updates: Alabama Baseball at LSU (Game 2)

The Crimson Tide looks to even the series against the Tigers in Baton Rouge.

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After coming up short in the series opener on Friday, Alabama baseball looks to even up the series in a Saturday afternoon contest against the LSU Tigers.

Alabama trailed 8-1 headed to the ninth but continued to battle until the final out. The Tide used two walks and a two-out double from Tommy Seidl to add the first run. Andrew Pinckney followed with a two-run single before a single from Drew Williamson put runners on the corners and forced an LSU pitching change. The new Tiger arm immediately gave up a single to Dominic Tamez that scored Pinckney and made it a two-run affair. Colby Shelton was next, battling across a six-pitch at-bat but a strikeout ended things at 8-6.

The offense was solid and Hagan Banks gave Alabama a solid three innings after figuring out he would start about an hour before the game.

"He went out and competed for 3.0 innings," Bohannon said after yesterday's loss. "Kade Woods then did a great job of getting us to the middle of the game and having us within striking distance. We obviously didn’t pitch well enough out of the bullpen at the end. If we pitch a lot better from the sixth inning on, it’s a different ballgame.”

Today, the game will start with Garrett McMillan, who will be making his fifth appearance and fourth start this season. In his last outing, he pitched for 3 1/3 innings and gave up one run off of one hit, four strikeouts and three walks.