NCAA Baseball Super Regional Preview: Baton Rouge

NCAA Super Regional Preview-BATON ROUGE

The LSU Tigers host the Florida State Seminoles for a best of three games NCAA Baseball Super Regional. Look inside for a preview of this Super Regional and a projection of which team will advance to the College World Series in Omaha.

General Information

Team Regional Seed 2019 Record Conference Location Prev. NCAA Bids RPI
LSU 1 40-24 SEC Baton Rouge, LA 32 16
Florida State 3 39-21 ACC Tallahassee, FL 57 50

Baton Rouge Super Regional Schedule

(All times ET)

Saturday, June 8

Game 1: Florida State at (13) LSU, 3 p.m., ESPN

Sunday, June 9

Game 2: Florida State at (13) LSU, 6 p.m., ESPN2

Monday, June 10

Game 3 (if nec.): Florida State at (13) LSU, 8:30 p.m., ESPN

Team Statistical Comparison

Hitting

BA OB% R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB CS SB
LSU 0.274 0.359 429 602 98 10 63 390 252 21 60
Florida State 0.274 0.400 420 545 111 13 79 394 359 15 45

Pitching & Fielding

ERA K OBA H R ER BB 2B 3B HR F%
LSU 4.66 562 0.251 551 327 297 254 107 5 61 0.977
Florida State 4.62 603 0.240 482 311 268 259 95 8 50 0.964

Statistical Leaders

LSU Batting Leaders

Name AVG OBP SLG OPS R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB
Josh Smith 0.346 0.436 0.533 0.969 68 85 15 2 9 41 28 42 20
Antoine Duplantis 0.319 0.373 0.493 0.866 61 86 8 3 11 64 21 28 6
Zach Watson 0.310 0.377 0.476 0.853 52 71 17 0 7 41 20 44 11
Cade Beloso 0.288 0.343 0.443 0.786 29 61 3 0 10 52 17 40 1
Daniel Cabrera 0.286 0.360 0.525 0.885 39 62 12 2 12 49 24 53 1
Chris Reid 0.256 0.389 0.346 0.735 31 40 11 0 1 32 34 31 1

LSU Pitching Leaders

Name W L ERA SHO SV IP H R ER BB SO OBA
Zack Hess 4 5 4.63 0 2 70.0 79 38 36 33 82 0.284
Eric Walker 5 4 5.48 0 0 72.1 67 44 44 32 56 0.247

Florida State Batting Leaders

Name AVG OBP SLG OPS R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB
Mike Salvatore 0.341 0.430 0.549 0.979 53 84 22 4 7 50 35 28 5
Robby Martin 0.340 0.419 0.487 0.906 32 67 17 0 4 54 28 49 2
Drew Mendoza 0.320 0.482 0.631 1.113 59 66 12 2 16 55 65 67 2
J.C. Flowers 0.278 0.378 0.528 0.906 44 60 11 2 13 53 29 62 10
Matheu Nelson 0.270 0.431 0.440 0.871 30 38 6 0 6 27 28 42 4
Nander De Sedas 0.246 0.371 0.361 0.732 38 47 8 1 4 31 27 52 3
Elijah Cabell 0.220 0.404 0.415 0.819 37 36 9 1 7 25 39 88 9

Florida State Pitching Leaders

Name W L ERA SHO SV IP H R ER BB SO OBA
Cj Van Eyk 10 3 3.71 0 0 87.1 74 40 36 37 115 0.222
Drew Parrish 8 5 5.07 0 0 81.2 78 52 46 29 112 0.246

Baton Rouge Super Regional Prediction

Just about everyone is rooting for FSU and their long time head coach Mike Martin who is in his final, 40th season with the Seminoles. Martin has taken FSU to well over a dozen College Baseball World Series but never won a CWS championship. This will be his last shot. In LSU the Seminoles get a vulnerable team. Although the Tigers seem to be getting better at the end of the season, they struggled much of the season and lost numerous non-conference games. FSU and LSU are very similar statistically. This series should go for 3 games. LSU gets the edge playing at home but you never know, ole Martin might get a final crack at the CWS. LSU 2 wins, FSU 1 win.

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