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LSU baseball score vs. Arkansas: Live updates from Omaha, 2025 College World Series

OMAHA, Neb. — For the second time in three years, LSU baseball is back at the College World Series.

The Tigers have returned to Omaha after winning the national championship in 2023, conquering the Baton Rouge regional in dramatic fashion over Little Rock before taking down West Virginia in the Baton Rouge super regional.

LSU will take on Arkansas in its first game in Omaha on Saturday (6 p.m., ESPN) in a matchup between two titans in the sport. The Tigers will start sophomore left-hander Kade Anderson while Arkansas is set to throw junior left-hander Zach Root.

The last time these two sides faced each other in May, LSU won the series at Alex Box Stadium. Anderson and Root squared off in Game 1, and the Tigers squeaked by the Razorbacks with a 5-4 win in 10 innings on a walk-off sacrifice fly from junior Ethan Frey.

LSU baseball score vs. Arkansas: Live updates from Omaha, 2025 College World Series

UPDATED, 9:06 p.m.: LSU defeats Arkansas 4-1 in its College World Series opener, thanks to a strong showing from starter Kade Anderson and a big second inning at the plate. 

The Tigers will now face UCLA at 6 p.m. Monday in the winner’s bracket. 

Critical victory for the Tigers, who just beat the CWS field’s highest seeded team to position itself nicely for a run into the championship series. 

UPDATED, 9:02 p.m.: Two down. Evans uses a 86 mph slider to force a swing and miss over heart of plate, then picks up a dribbler back to the mound and fires to first for an out. 

UPDATED, 8:58 p.m.: Arkansas leadoff hitter Charles Davalan lines into shallow center field. Evans now in a tricky situation, with a three-run lead, no outs, one on and the top of the Razorback order due up. Let’s see how the freshman works through it. 

UPDATED, 8:55 p.m.: With two on, Jared Jones goes down on a check swing for his fifth strikeout of the night. Now Arkansas’ hitters have one last shot. Casan Evans is on the mound for LSU in place of Chase Shores. 

UPDATED, 8:41 p.m.: Arkansas makes a pitching change with two outs in the top of the ninth. Josh Pearson is on first, and Jake Brown is pinch hitting for Ethan Frey.

UPDATED, 8:41 p.m.: Chase Shores has his signature velocity. His fastballs are touching 101 mph. Quite the challenge for Arkansas hitters who have been dealing with Kade Anderson’s high-arcing breaking balls all night. 

Two Razorbacks struck out. A third lined out. 

Arkansas is now down to its last three outs. 

LSU’s up 4-1 as we begin the ninth inning.

UPDATED, 8:31 p.m.: Kade Anderson, who trotted back out for the eighth inning, allows a base hit to right field. Now his night is done, and Chase Shores is jogging out the pen. 

A spectacular outing for the sophomore from Mandeville: 7.0 innings, 1 ER, 3 hits, 2 BB, 7 K’s, 100 pitches.

UPDATED, 8:27 p.m.: Derek Curiel drops a line drive into left field to score Steven Milam. Those two hitters have enjoyed stellar postseasons at the plate, and now they team up to give LSU a little more cushion in the top of the eighth. 

LSU is up 4-1, and Arkansas is down to its last six outs. 

An interesting development here. Anthony Eyanson appears to be warming up in the bullpen. 

UPDATED, 8:25 p.m.: It’s the eighth inning, two are out, and Steven Milam is on second after he hit a double. Arkansas has a new pitcher after Gaeckle gave it 6.0 scoreless innings in relief.  

UPDATED, 8:15 p.m.: A brilliant start for Kade Anderson: only one run (on two hits) across 7.0 innings of work. Now it’s decision time for Jay Johnson. Do you send him back out for the eighth inning with 98 pitches on his arm? Or is it time to bring in a reliever? Remember, LSU has spent most of the last six innings clinging to a 3-1 lead, and this game is a rather important one. 

UPDATED, 8:14 p.m.: Chase Shores and Cooper Williams are throwing in the LSU bullpen.

UPDATED, 8:12 p.m. : Gabe Gaeckel is on fire. He just fanned the side to notch his seventh, eighth and ninth strikeouts of the night. Arkansas needed him to string together some scoreless innings, and he’s more than delivered. The sophomore has now thrown 5 ⅓ scoreless innings.  

The Razorbacks can make some noise here in the bottom of the seventh. 

It’s 3-1 LSU with Kade Anderson (88 pitches) back on the mound. 

UPDATED, 8:02 p.m.: Anderson gives up a solo home run, then bounces back by retiring three straight batters. Two struck out. Let’s see if the LSU hitters can widen a 3-1 lead. 

UPDATED, 7:56 p.m.: Arkansas is on the board. Eight-hole hitter Reese Robinett, a redshirt sophomore, just caught a fastball inside and smashed a solo shot into the right-field stands — only the fifth home run of his career. 

LSU is up 3-1 in the bottom of the sixth. 

UPDATED, 7:52 p.m.: The LSU offense hasn’t been able to do much outside of its three-run second inning. Since then, the Tigers have recorded only two hits, and they’ve struck out six times. Derek Curiel, Daniel Dickinson and Chris Stanfield went down in the order in the sixth. 

UPDATED, 7:45 p.m.: Kade Anderson brought his best stuff to Omaha. Here are his numbers through five innings: 1 hit, 2 BB, 4 K, 0 ER, 62 pitches. The sophomore uncorked a couple filthy breaking balls to get a pair of Arkansas hitters to go down swinging in the fifth.

LSU still up 3-0.

UPDATED, 7:40 p.m.: Steven Milam hit a two-out single, and that’s all for the fifth inning. Jared Jones has now struck out all three times he’s taken the plate, and Arkansas reliever Gabe Gaeckle is settling in. He’s fanned five LSU batters across 3 ⅓ scoreless innings. 

UPDATED, 7:29 p.m.: Anderson gives up his first hit of the night, a line-drive single into right-center field, but draws a grounder into a double play to end the inning. The LSU star is now Division I’s strikeout leader (165), and his night is far from over. He’s thrown only 50 pitches. 

It’s the top of the fifth, and LSU is still up 3-0. 

UPDATED, 7:23 p.m.: Gaeckle’s fastball could be an issue for LSU’s hitters. Josh Pearson just whiffed on one to end the top of the fourth. Tigers’ lead is still 3-0.

UPDATED, 7:14 p.m.: Quick 1-2-3 third inning for Kade Anderson, who’s now retired five Arkansas hitters in a row. 

UPDATED, 7:09 p.m.: The new Arkansas pitcher is sophomore right-hander Gabe Gaeckle. Coach David Van Horn told the ESPN broadcast that he pulled Root, the starter, so quickly because LSU had sluggers Ethan Frey and Jared Jones due up. One big swing from either of them, he said, could’ve essentially ended the game. 

Gaeckle can string together innings. His fastball dances. 

LSU up 3-0 in the bottom of the third.

UPDATED, 6:55 p.m.: 1-2-3 second inning for Arkansas. LSU is up 3-0. Kade Anderson needs only one more strikeout to become the nation’s strikeout leader. He’s up to 28 pitches through two frames.

UPDATED, 6:50 p.m.: To recap a nightmarish second-inning for Arkansas: LSU scored three runs and forced starter Zach Root out of the game, giving him an outing that matches the shortest start of his career.

Things got away from Root rather quickly. In the first, he needed only 14 pitches to retire the side. In the second, he walked two batters. Then Daniel Dickinson loaded the bases with a beautiful bunt, and LSU started adding the runs from there. 

Tigers couldn’t have asked for a much better start. LSU 3-0.

UPDATED, 6:46 p.m.: LSU strikes first. Tigers loaded the bases, then kept their runners moving. A timely line-drive single into left field by Chris Stanfield got the first run across. Then Michael Braswell got hit by a pitch to score the second, and Josh Pearson hit a dribbler to short to plate the third. 

Arkansas ace Zach Root’s day is already done. It’s 3-0 LSU.

UPDATED, 6:31 p.m.: No score after one inning. Kade Anderson walked Arkansas star Wehiwa Aloy but kept him on first base. The LSU starter threw 17 pitches in the first. 

UPDATED, 6:20 p.m.: Three up, three down for LSU. Josh Pearson grounded out, Ethan Frey flew out, and Jared Jones struck out. Wind is blowing in at Charles Schwab Field, which means that it’ll be tough to knock one over the fence.

UPDATED, 5:30 p.m.: Before first pitch, be sure to read the twin columns our Scott Rabalais wrote on-site in advance of the CWS. One is about LSU’s long-lasting love affair with Omaha, and the other is about Jay Johnson, the singularly focused coach who reveres that city in Nebraska— for its history, its tradition and its promise of glory. 

UPDATED, 4:49 p.m.: Lineups are out. Most notable change for LSU is that Josh Pearson is leading off, and Derek Curiel is batting sixth.

Remember, Jay Johnson drew up a similar order for the Tigers’ NCAA super-regional opener against West Virginia, and it paid off. Curiel got the offense rolling in the fourth when he slapped a three-run homer into the left-field bleachers from the seven hole.

Arkansas’ top pitcher is a lefty. Just like Mountaineers ace Griffin Kirn.

UPDATED, 4:19 p.m.: UCLA defeats Murray State 6-4 in Game 3. The Bruins will now play again at 6 p.m. Monday against the winner of tonight’s Game 4 between LSU and Arkansas. 

UPDATED, 4:00 p.m.: Before first pitch, settle in and take a moment to read this story about LSU leadoff hitter Derek Curiel, a freshman whose mature approach to the plate belies his age. It’s an inside look at how he turned himself into a player coach Jay Johnson has called “the engine” of the Tigers’ offense. 

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