BATON ROUGE, LA From The Times (By: Tom Pace, Talk of the Town) BREAKING COLLEGE BASEBALL: 10pm 6-8-08 The LSU baseball Tigers proved what Yogi Berra has often said, "It ain't over 'til it's over." The purple and gold rallied in the bottom of the 9th at Alex Box Stadium, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
According to The Times, LSU scored five times in the ninth inning to defeat UC Irvine, 9-7, on Sunday and force a decisive Game 3 of the NCAA Baton Rouge Super Regional.
LSU rallied for five runs off UC Irvine closer Eric Pettis, whose 17 saves rank second in the country.
Monday's Game 3 will be the final game played in Alex Box Stadium and will be aired at 6 p.m. on one of the ESPN networks.