The LSU Tigers baseball team will play against the New Orleans Privateers at Alex Box Stadium, Skip Bertman Field in Baton Rouge on April 21. The game is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. Central Time and will be broadcast online via SEC Network Plus.
This matchup continues a longstanding series between the two teams, with LSU leading the all-time record against New Orleans, 66-37. The Tigers have won 15 of the last 18 meetings, including an 11-1 victory last season. However, New Orleans last defeated LSU in April 2022.
LSU Head Coach Jay Johnson said, “We are certainly not where we want to be at this juncture, and not where we expect to be. The only way I know how to move forward is through hard work. We will have some individual meetings, put together plans for our players and help them apply it to the games.”
Junior shortstop Steven Milam has reached base safely in his last 18 games and currently holds a seven-game hitting streak. He batted .385 during LSU’s recent series with Texas A&M and has committed just one error this season over 145 chances. Sophomore right-hander Deven Sheerin recorded his longest outing for LSU against Texas A&M with nine strikeouts over four-plus innings and leads the team with a 2.84 earned run average.
Other notable contributors include junior rightfielder Jake Brown who leads the team with sixteen home runs and forty-nine runs batted in; sophomore centerfielder Derek Curiel tops batting averages at .354 with fifty-seven hits so far this season.
The Privateers enter Tuesday’s game holding a record of seventeen wins and twenty-five losses overall (7-14 in Southland Conference play). Outfielder Dylan Biddick is batting .325 while Kruise Newman leads UNO in both home runs (nine) and RBIs (thirty-three). Their pitching staff has posted a cumulative earned run average of six point ten across more than three hundred sixty innings.
