LSU Traveling To Alabama To Face The Crimson Tide This Weekend

The No. 9 LSU Fighting Tigers baseball team will hit the road this weekend to take on the Alabama Crimson Tide.

LSU is 11-7 in SEC play, the Tigers are 27-15 overall and the Crimson Tide are 4-14 in the SEC and 25-17 overall.

Here are the specifics when it comes to the games this weekend:

DATES/TIMES
Friday, April 26: 6 p.m. CT (SEC Network +)
Saturday, April 27: 2 p.m. CT (SEC Network +)
Sunday, April 28: 1 p.m. CT (SEC Network +)

STADIUM
Sewell-Thomas Stadium in Tuscaloosa, Ala.

RANKINGS
LSU: No. 9 Perfect Game, No. 13 D1 Baseball, No. 14 Baseball America, No. 15 Collegiate Baseball
Alabama: Unranked

ALL-TIME SERIES RECORD VS. ALABAMA
The Crimson Tide leads the all-time series with the Tigers at 197-172-3, with the intial match-up between these programs happening way back in the year 1906. Since Paul Mainieri has taken over the program (2007-19), LSU has dominated Bama having won 10 of the 12 SEC regular-season series, which included a 2-1 series win last year at Alex Box Stadium in Baton Rouge. Now, the times Alabama was able to grab a series victory in the past 12 seasons came in the year 2011 at home and in 2016 away in Baton Rouge. The Tigers hold a dominate 30-10 mark in games played vs. Alabama throughout Mainieri’s tenure (25-10 in regular-season games, 5-0 in the SEC Tournament).

PITCHING MATCHUPS
Game 1
LSU: Jr. RH Zack Hess (2-2, 4.11 ERA, 46.0 IP, 24 BB, 47 SO)
BAMA: Sr. RH Sam Finnerty (5-5, 4.12 ERA, 59.0 IP, 8 BB, 44 SO)
Game 2
LSU: So. RH Eric Walker (3-3, 5.44 ERA, 43.0 IP, 14 BB, 33 SO)
BAMA: Jr. RH Brock Love (4-3, 4.69 ERA, 40.1 IP, 17 BB, 51 SO)
Game 3
LSU: TBA
BAMA: TBA