OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Freshman Taylor Jungmann limited LSU to five hits
in his first complete game, and Russell Moldenhauer hit his
record-tying fourth home run of the *College World Series* as Texas
evened the best-of-three finals, 5-1 over LSU tonight.
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The top-seeded Longhorns (50-15-1) forced a winner-take-all game
Wednesday night for the national championship. LSU (55-17), ranked No.
1 in the major polls, lost for the first time in 15 games.
Jungmann, who threw six pitches all for balls in a short relief
appearance in Game 1 Monday, struck out nine against an LSU offense
that averaged 9.5 runs in its first four CWS games.
Jungmann (11-3) won his third game in Omaha — the other two were in
relief — and he pitched the first complete game in the CWS since
2006.
LSU starter Aaron Ross (6-8) lasted only two innings in his first CWS
start.
Preston Clark homered for a 2-0 lead in the second and finished with
three hits and two RBIs.
Moldenhauer’s surprising show of power continued. He came to Omaha
with no home runs this season and became the 10th player to hit four
in a CWS when he sent a high fly over the right-center field fence off
Ryan Byrd in the third.
Jungmann had never pitched more than 7 2-3 innings. He gave up a
triple to DJ LeMahieu leading off the third in addition to four
singles.
LSU scored on shortstop Brandon Loy’s fielding error in the second.
The Tigers got the leadoff man on base to start four innings after
that, but couldn’t score.
LeMahieu tripled into the right-field corner to start the third, and
Jungmann walked Blake Dean with one out. Jungmann struck out Micah
Gibbs and got Mike Mahtook to ground out.
Jungmann got a big defensive play from second baseman Travis Tucker
with a runner on first base in the fourth. Tucker went into the hole
to backhand Derek Helenihi’s grounder up the middle, underhanded the
ball to Loy, who made the throw to first to complete the inning-ending
double play.
In the sixth, Dean reached on an infield single and took another base
when Tucker let the ball get past him as he backed up first. But Dean
left second base too early on Gibbs’ fly to center and, as he was
standing on third, was called out when Jungmann threw back to Tucker
at second.
The Longhorns scored all five runs in the first three innings and
mustered only four singles the rest of the way.
LSU left fielder Leon Landry robbed Kevin Keyes of extra bases in the
fifth, his body going parallel to the ground as he laid out to snag
Keyes’ drive into the corner.
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