{"id":209263,"date":"2026-03-07T17:49:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T17:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/209263\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T17:49:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T17:49:09","slug":"lsu-baseball-vs-sacramento-state-start-time-in-saturday-matchup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/209263\/","title":{"rendered":"LSU Baseball vs. Sacramento State Start Time in Saturday Matchup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"inline-text-0\" class=\"mt-[18px] md:mt-0 mb-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5g\">Jay Johnson and the defending National Champion LSU Tigers will return to Alex Box Stadium, Skip Bertman Field on Saturday afternoon for Game 2 of the weekend series against Sacramento State.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-1\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5j\">After dominating the Hornets on Friday night in Baton Rouge, Johnson and Co. will look to earn the series win on Saturday with Cooper Moore set to take the mound.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-2\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5m\">\u201cIt was a good performance all the way around,\u201d said LSU coach Jay Johnson. \u201cThe offense was close to our potential; I\u2019m not going to say we\u2019re capable of scoring 15 every game, but that was a pretty electric performance. I\u2019m proud of the guys for the work they put in at practice yesterday and in their preparation for today.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-3\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5p\">\u201cJake can be as good as he wants to be; he\u2019s put in a lot of work, and we\u2019ve seen a lot of improved, controllable thingsfrom him as a hitter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-4\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5s\">LSU starting pitcher Casan Evans (1-0) was dominant Friday night, firing 5.0 perfect innings to begin his outing. He worked a total of 5.2 innings and allowed two runs on three hits with no walks and nine strikeouts. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/01jxrw4f69rrtcmrdmbg.jpg\" alt=\"LSU Tigers Baseball: Casan Evans.\" title=\"LSU Tigers Baseball: Casan Evans.\" width=\"1942\" height=\"1294\" class=\"undefined w-full w-full blur-[5px]\" q:id=\"62\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Courtesy of LSU Tigers Baseball.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-6\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"66\">\u201cCasan is one of the best pitchers in the country,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cHe\u2019s one of the best people in our program, and I have as much confidence in him as anybody we could every roll out there. He couldn\u2019t be in a better spot to help the Tigers win as we enter SEC play next week.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-7\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"69\">Now, all focus is on Game 2 with the LSU Tigers set to get back on the diamond for an opportunity to carry their momentum into Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The New Start Time:<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-9\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6f\">The teams meet in Game 2 of the weekend series at 2 p.m. CT Saturday in Alex Box Stadium, Skip Bertman Field. <\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-10\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6i\">Saturday\u2019s game was originally scheduled for 6 p.m. CT, but was moved four hours earlier due to the forecast of inclement weather.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-11\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6l\">Saturday\u2019s 2 p.m. CT game will be broadcast on the LSU Sports Radio Network and streamed on SEC Network +.<\/p>\n<p>More LSU News:\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-13\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6r\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/college\/lsu\/recruiting\/lsu-football-and-michigan-wolverines-among-teams-to-watch-for-elite-florida-prospect-01kjxj8rp5rg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">LSU Football and Michigan Wolverines Among Teams to Watch for Elite Florida Prospect<\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-14\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6u\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/college\/lsu\/recruiting\/lsu-football-building-momentum-in-pursuit-of-coveted-georgia-bulldogs-commitment-01kjx5fg0619\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">LSU Football Building Momentum in Pursuit of Coveted Georgia Bulldogs Commitment<\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-15\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6x\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/college\/lsu\/football\/paul-finebaum-reveals-bold-statement-on-lsu-football-s-lane-kiffin-amid-major-move-01khrsrfx4t8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Paul Finebaum Reveals Bold Statement on LSU Football&#8217;s Lane Kiffin Amid Major Move<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Join the Community:\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-17\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"73\">Follow Zack Nagy on Twitter:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/znagy20\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@znagy20\u00a0<\/a>and LSU Tigers On SI:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/LSUTigersSI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">@LSUTigersSI\u00a0<\/a>for all coverage surrounding the LSU Tigers.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jay Johnson and the defending National Champion LSU Tigers will return to Alex Box Stadium, Skip Bertman Field&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209264,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":["post-209263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}