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LSU baseball score vs. Arkansas: Live updates from 2025 College World Series on Wednesday

OMAHA, Neb. — LSU is one win away.

With a victory on Wednesday or Thursday, the Tigers will reach the College World Series final for the second time in three years. To accomplish that feat, they’ll have to get past a familiar foe in Arkansas.

The Tigers and Razorbacks have faced each other four times this season. LSU has won three of those matchups, including on Saturday in Omaha by a final score of 4-1.

LSU is undefeated through two games in Omaha, defeating Arkansas before taking down UCLA 9-4 on Tuesday morning. The Razorbacks defeated Murray State 3-0 and beat UCLA 7-3 after falling to the Tigers in their opening game.

Arkansas will have to defeat LSU twice in order to reach the College World Series final. If LSU wins on Wednesday or Thursday, it’ll face either Coastal Carolina or Louisville in the CWS final.

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

UPDATED, 7:15 p.m. — Arkansas scores first. Cleanup hitter Ryder Helfrick just saw Cowan’s first pitch of the fourth inning and cranked a solo home run over the wall in center field. Looked like the wind gave it a a little lift. 

Let’s see if Cowan can bounce back, or if LSU goes to the pen. 

Arkansas 1-0, top of the fourth.

UPDATED, 7:11 p.m. — Arkansas lefty Landon Beidelschies struck out the side in the third inning. Both starters are throwing well. Beidelschies has now fanned five LSU batters, including each of the last four. Cowan is back out for the fourth, with two hits, three strikeouts and 53 pitches under his belt. 

UPDATED. 7:03 p.m. — Three up, three down for Arkansas in the top of the third. The Razorbacks hit a couple balls into LSU’s shift. Cowan’s third strikeout was a nice one. 

UPDATED, 6:56 p.m. — No score through two innings. Arkansas intentionally walked Daniel Dickinson to to put two on with two outs for Michael Braswell, but he struck out swinging to end the frame. Zac Cowan is back out for the third. 

UPDATED, 6:41 p.m. — Cowan gave up a leadoff single, then struck out two batters and forced another into a fielder’s choice. He’s thrown 40 pitches through 2.0 innings of work. Jaden Noot is getting loose in the LSU bullpen.

UPDATED, 6:27 p.m. — Aggressive baserunning by leadoff hitter Derek Curiel. His hard-hit liner bounced off the first-baseman’s glove and slipped into shallow right field, giving the freshman a chance to dash toward second. That’s his 20th double of the season.

LSU left him at second. Ethan Frey popped out, Steven Milam flew out, and Luis Hernandez struck out.

UPDATED, 6:24 p.m. — What a play by Steven Milam. Sliding stop in the grass at short. Long throw to first for the out. Arkansas star Wehiwa Aloy thought he had an infield single, but the LSU sophomore put him out. 

Milam couldn’t make the next play, though. Logan Maxwell sent a hard-hit line drive slightly above his head, but it bounced out of his glove. 

Only one hit for Arkansas in the first.

UPDATED, 5:10 p.m. — Tonight, LSU will start Zac Cowan, the Wofford transfer who served as a key reliever for most of the season. The righty, however, struggled in his lone NCAA Tournament appearance, a start in the Tigers’ June 2 win over Little Rock. 

Cowan has worked at least three innings eight times this season, but only once in his last seven appearances. He has a 4.05 ERA.

Here’s the full lineup.

UPDATED, 4:56 p.m. — If LSU wins one more game, it will take on Coastal Carolina in the championship series. The Chanticleers just officially punched their ticket to the final round with an 11-3 win over Louisville. 

Remember, this program is the one that swept the Tigers out of their own super regional in 2016. That year, Coastal won the national title — over Jay Johnson’s Arizona team. 

The Chanticleers haven’t been back to Omaha (or the championship series) since then, but now they’re riding a 26-game win streak into a best-of-three series for all the marbles. 

Underestimate them at your own risk.

UPDATED, 4:40 p.m. — Here’s the latest on the Jell-O shot contest at Rocco’s. Safe to say that, once again, LSU fans have a rather comfortable lead. That tally, however, does not include the shots that residents of the senior living community St. James Place have taken from home. We’ve got an inside look at their smaller-scale contest, which has even caught the eyes of the people running the real thing up in Omaha. 

UPDATED, 4:13 p.m. — While you wait for first pitch, you can check out a story about how the LSU players waited out the long interlude that interrupted their 9-5 win over UCLA. By now, the Tigers know how to handle a rain delay. 

That victory, of course, is what got LSU here — to the brink of the championship series. 

Because the Tigers won their first two games, they’re in an enviable situation. In his most recent column, our Scott Rabalais tackles the importance of those two wins and places them into some historical context. Is LSU really about to win its eighth national title? Have a look for yourself. 

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