Although LSU beat out Wake Forest for the golden ticket to advance to the College World Series finals, the biggest winner of this game was college baseball itself.
The game between LSU and Wake Forest checked all the boxes. It had the two best teams in the country. The field was littered with talent all over the field. The two best pitchers in all of college baseball, LSU pitcher Paul Skenes and Wake Forest pitcher Rhett Lowder, had a pitching duel for the ages. The most important thing about a classic game is that it needs drama, and LSU’s All-American third baseman Tommy White did just that when he hit the game-winning walk-off home run in extra innings to help his team advance to the national championship.