{"id":210745,"date":"2026-03-08T21:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T21:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/210745\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T21:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T21:08:10","slug":"lsu-baseball-falls-to-sacramento-state-on-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/210745\/","title":{"rendered":"LSU baseball falls to Sacramento State on Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>March 8, 2026, 10:55 a.m. CT<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">One day after LSU baseball seemed to break out of a slump with a run-rule victory over Sacramento State, the Tigers managed only three hits and four runs on Saturday, <a href=\"http:\/\/lsutigerswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/college\/lsu\/baseball\/2026\/03\/07\/lsu-baseball-game-today-sacramento-state-live-updates-score-schedule\/89037344007\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">dropping Game 2 of the series 5-4.<\/a> LSU tried to put together some late-inning magic, scoring four runs in the final two innings, but it was too little too late.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Cooper Moore got the start on the mound for the Tigers, and he did not have a great day, albeit the umpire was not doing him any favors. There were a lot of pitches that could have been called strikes that were called balls, which led to Moore&#8217;s frustration. Cooper was pulled from the game after 4.2 innings, giving up one run on four hits, four strikeouts, and three walks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The biggest play of the game happened in the top of the eighth inning when Jaden Noot gave up a grand slam that extended Sacramento State&#8217;s lead to 5-0. Three of the runs on the grand slam were charged to Devin Sheerin. Here are three takeaways from Game Two&#8217;s loss.<\/p>\n<p>The hitting problems have not been fixed<img class=\"gnt_em_img_i\" style=\"height:472px\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" data-gl-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/88996462007-usatsi-28404205.jpg\" data-gl- decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Seth Dardar, Louisianas Ragin Cajuns Baseball beats the LSU Tigers 7-2 at M.L. Tigue Moore Field in Lafayette, LA. Wednesday, March 4, 2026.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">After Friday&#8217;s big day at the plate for a lot of hitters, many thought that maybe the Tigers&#8217; lineup was back to the form we saw at the beginning of the season. Saturday&#8217;s game showed that it was not the case. Only managing two hits over nine innings will not get the job done against anyone.<\/p>\n<p>Need a news break? <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":body nav (play)|e|auto spike click:6|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_sp_a\" href=\"https:\/\/play.usatoday.com\/?itm_source=SPIKE&amp;itm_campaign=PLAYSPIKE&amp;itm_medium=ONSITE\">Check out the all new PLAY hub with puzzles, games and more!<\/a>No errors<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">On a positive note, LSU did not commit any errors on Saturday against Sacramento State. This marked the second game in a row that the defense did not commit any errors, so I have to give them credit for that.<\/p>\n<p>Ethan Plog pitched well<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">While he did not have a perfect game, I thought Ethan Plog pitched well. He went 2.2 innings and did not give up any runs or any hits while striking out two hitters and only walking one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"March 8, 2026, 10:55 a.m. CT One day after LSU baseball seemed to break out of a slump&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210746,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[243,121,123,122,96132,14987,5976,1350,45863,377,246],"class_list":["post-210745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-accessfree","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news","tag-sstssportscollegelsubaseball","tag-sstsnbaseball","tag-tagbaseball","tag-tagcollege-sports","tag-taglouisiana-state-university","tag-tagsports-news","tag-typestory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210745","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=210745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}