After watching LSU get thoroughly demolished by Florida on Thursday, then come back to exact revenge on Friday and Saturday, it’s become very clear just how close to the razor’s edge this team lives on. And even though LSU is hovering around 11 available position players, the pitching staff is where injuries have hit this team the hardest.
It’s impossible to say if having Hess start on Thursday would have led to a win, and no one could have expected Hilliard to have one of the work starts of his career, but it was nice to see a genuine example of what coaches describe as “competitive in a blowout.