 Photo By: Michael Bacigalupi Da Boot Sports 2/16/2024 By: Terrill J. Weil BATON ROUGE, LA - It's that time of the year! It's LSU Baseball season.. The Tigers return to the diamond as the defending national champions looking to start the season with a win. That they did, as they sputtered their way to an 11-8 victory in front of 11,649 fans at Alex Box Stadium/Skip Bertman Field on Friday afternoon. LSU used five different pitchers in the game against a good hitting VMI team. Nate Ackenhausen got the win while Gage Jump registered the save. The Tigers scored 11 runs on 12 hits. They committed 2 errors and left 9 men on base. The night was highlighted by Jared Jones' three run homer and a solo home run by Hayden Travinski. Thatcher Hurd got the start on the bump for the Tigers and started out a little shaky, needing to throw several pitches for the first out, a strike out, before surrendering a single up the middle. LSU would get out of the inning with no damage done after Alex Milazzo threw out VMI's Trey Morgan attempting to steal second base, followed by another Hurd strike out. LSU got on the board in the bottom of the second. Hayden Travinski and Josh Pearson started out the inning with back to back singles before Jared Jones stepped to the plate and launched a three run homer over the left field wall. After the homer, the Tigers loaded the bases, but couldn't move any of them home. 3-0 LSU after two innings. VMI had a solid inning in the 3rd. With two outs, Kazu Jordan took a base on balls jog to first base. Jordan then moved to second base on a balk by Thatcher Hurd. Ty Swaim singled to right field, scoring Jordan from second. Swaim then successfully stole second base. Trey Morgan followed with a RBI single to center field. The Keydates were still not finished as Just Starke doubled into the right field corner, scoring Morgan from first base. Cole Jenkins then singled to left field to plate Starke. The damage chased Hurd from the ball game, as Jay Johnson went to the bull pen, bringing in junior lefty Justin Loer. Loer was able to stop the bleeding as he struck out Grayson Fitzwater swinging. The game headed to the bottom of the 3rd with the score, VMI 4, LSU 3. Thatcher Hurd pitched 2.2 innings, giving up four runs on five hits. He had four strike outs and issued one base on balls. LSU responded in the bottom of the 3rd. Travinski led off with a single up the middle after two outs, Mac Bingham was then hit by a pitch. Paxton Kling stepped to the plate and doubled to left field, scoring Travinski and Bingham to give the Tigers the lead back, 5-4. VMI created more damage in the top of the 4th. Jimmy Koza started things with a one out single to right field, but ended up on third after a throwing error by Justin Loer. Owen Prince then doubled to left field, scoring Koza to tie the contest at 5-5. Nate Ackenhausen replaced Loer on the mound to start the 5th inning and allowed the Keydets to take the lead on a solo home run by Col Jenkins to left center field. 6-5, VMI. Then the VMI pitchers had a total meltdown as they hit five LSU batters in the 6th inning. Kling was hit, then Brady Neal. Michael Braswell grounded out to first, moving Kling and Neal to second and third. Jake Brown was then hit by a pitch to load the bases. Tommy White was hit to bring Kling home to tie the game. Travinski was the next victim as he was hit by a pitch to bring in Neal. Jared Jones drew a walk to bring home Travinski. 8-6, LSU. With the bases still loaded, Mac Bingham doubled to left field to score two more runs for the Tigers. LSU held a 10-6 lead as the game moved to the 7th inning. The Keydets struck again in the top of the 8th, scoring a run, causing Johnson to once again go to his bull pen. Gavin Guidry stepped to the mound, hoping to close out the game. Guidry retired the next two batters, before struggling. With a runner on second base, Guidry walked Owen Prince. Ryan Peterson then hit a slow chopper over Guidry's head. Michael Braswell fielded the ball and threw wildly to first base. The pass ball allowed Grayson Fitzwater to score from second base. Samuel Dutton replaced Gavin Guidry to close out the inning. The contest headed to the bottom of the 8th with LSU leading 10-8. The Tigers were able to add an insurance run in the bottom of the 8th when Hayden Travinski led off with a towering home run to left field. 11-8, LSU after eight. Gage Jump replaced Dutton on the bump to begin the 9th inning. Jump took the Keydets down in order to ring up the Tigers first win of the season. LSU (1-0) will face Central Arkansas on Saturday at 1:00pm CST. Photos Below by: Michael Bacigalupi Photos Below By: Jonathan Mailhes John 14:6 - "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." 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