OMAHA, Neb. -- Caleb Gilbert heard the same line from Paul Mainieri starting around the fifth inning.
"Give me one more," the LSU coach would tell his sophomore right-hander. He gave him one more -- and then some.
Gilbert pitched until one out in the eighth inning having allowed only one single and one walk to successive hitters midway through his outing in LSU's 6-1 victory Saturday against Oregon State.
Only after a solo home run did Mainieri replace Gilbert with freshman reliever Zack Hess, and Gilbert walked off the field as the recipient of a standing ovation from the pro-LSU crowd on a sunny afternoon at TD Ameritrade Park.