Baseball Avoids Sweep Against Texas A&M, Wins Game Three 7-6

It wasn’t the prettiest game, but the LSU baseball team (15-5, 1-2) managed to avoid getting swept in the opening SEC series, rallying to beat Texas A&M 7-6 on Sunday.

Texas A&M jumped on LSU from the start scoring two runs in the first and a third in the top half of the fourth inning. LSU would respond in the fourth by getting a pair of runs back to make it a 3-2 game.

Then disaster seemed to strike in the fifth when LSU surrendered three runs turning a tightly contested 3-2 game into a 6-2 deficit with a sweep staring down the Tigers. But LSU answered back scoring two runs in the sixth and another two in the seventh to tie the game at six. LSU would score the go-ahead run in the eighth…