These baseball recaps are getting easier to write up.
LSU (23-17. 6-11) has lost a second consecutive SEC weekend, losing game two of its series against #10 Texas A&M (30-7, 11-5) 7-2 Saturday evening at The Box. After getting back to .500 in league play two weekends ago against Tennessee, LSU has now dropped five straight SEC games and run the risk of being swept in back-to-back weekends.
Saturday kind of followed the same beats that we’ve seen since SEC play started which is to say A&M got up early,
and any time LSU responded with a run the Aggies would come back out and get that run back.
William Schmidt threw a career-high 105 pitches but couldn’t get out of the sixth inning. Schmidt allowed seven runs, all earned, off of seven hits, and had an even four walks and four strikeouts.
If there is a silver lining, the bullpen had themselves a pretty solid evening. Conner Benge might have given up a bases loaded single to the one and only batter that he faced, but outside of that the Tiger relievers didn’t allow a single earned run. True freshman Marcos Paz had arguably his best outing of 2026, pitching the final two innings and retiring six of the eight batters that he faced. Paz struck out three, issued a walk, and gave up one hit.
The LSU offense was once again quite bad, Steven Milam excluded. The top-3 of LSU’s lineup (Derek Curiel-Jake Brown-Cade Arrambide) went a combined 1-12 today with six strikeouts. Milam, to his credit, was 2-4 with a solo home run in the second inning that got LSU on the board. Too bad it was already a 3-0 deficit at that point, and A&M scored two runs their next time up.
Jay Johnson made headlines for what he said after Friday night’s loss to A&M saying he made mistakes in constructing this year’s roster and “it’s a deep-rooted thing, we’re off and this will never happen again.” Less than 24 hours after being called out, Jay’s team proved exactly why he said that in the first place, and I think that tells us all we need to know about this group.
LSU will try to avoid the indignity of getting swept at home tomorrow afternoon, with first pitch scheduled for 1:00 P.M. Great news everyone, tomorrow’s game is being broadcasted on ESPN, so the whole world can tune in to see if LSU lies down for a second day in a row.
