Author Archives: Hunt Palmer
PALMER: Yeskie, Johnson track record suggests better pitching is coming
By Hunt Palmer LSU's slumping bats stole the storylines for a couple of weeks. Run production was no problem in Nashville over the weekend. It was the run prevention that became an issue. LSU pitching...
Mar 17, 2026 LSU Athletics
Heath Dedeaux to join LSU staff as offensive analyst
By Hunt Palmer LSU has added an analyst a week prior to spring practice. Heath Dedeaux will work as an offensive analyst for the Tigers after spending the last two seasons at Auburn in quality control...
Mar 17, 2026 Michael Bacigalupi
LSU hosts Grambling in midweek matchup
By Hunt Palmer LSU's schedule has been shaken up this week. The team was unable to leave Nashville on Sunday due to inclement weather. That pushed their arrival back in Baton Rouge to Monday. The week...
Mar 17, 2026 February 13, 2026: during NCAA Baseball action between the Milwaukee Panthers and the LSU Tigers at the Alex Box Stadium in Baton Rouge, LA. Michael Bacigalupi
Otter Locks March 16: NBA and WBC picks
Jimmy Ott, longtime sports betting analyst and co-host of Live at Lunch on 104.5 ESPN Baton Rouge, will give his best bets of the day here. We call them, "Otter Locks," presented by Supreme Rice. NBA ...
Mar 16, 2026
Poll Position: Slumping Tigers tumble from rankings
By Hunt Palmer LSU's fall from No. 1 to unranked is complete. The Tigers (14-7, 1-2) fell from three major polls (D1 Baseball, Baseball America and Perfect Game) on Monday after losing a series to Van...
Mar 16, 2026
Around the Horn: LSU drops series at Vandy
By Hunt Palmer What a wild weekend. Friday looked awful. Then LSU scored eight unanswered. Then got walked off. Saturday was a disaster from jump. Sunday got off to a great start. The middle innings l...
Mar 16, 2026 LSU Baseball
Tigers salvage Sunday at Vanderbilt with 16-run outburst
By Hunt Palmer THE STORY The crisis was averted. That verbiage may be too strong, but starting 0-3 in SEC play with the finale being a coughed up 6-0 lead would have felt heavy. To the Tigers' credit,...
Mar 15, 2026 LSU Baseball
Rapid Reaction: The SEC gets 10 teams in, Auburn and OU out
By Chris Marler The NCAA Tournament teams have been announced. There were some shocks and some surprises, and that's just the beginning of the chaos that we will inevitably get from the NCAA Tournamen...
Mar 15, 2026 David Leong-Imagn Images
Transfer troubles have hurt LSU early on
By Hunt Palmer Perhaps no program in the country has worked the transfer portal like LSU baseball. What produced Paul Skenes and Tommy White for a title did the same with Anthony Eyanson and Daniel Di...
Mar 15, 2026 LSU Baseball
LSU drops series with 11-3 loss at Vanderbilt
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Vanderbilt right-hander Wyatt Nadeau limited LSU to three runs over 7.0 innings Saturday night as the Commodores recorded an 11-3 win over the Tigers at Charles Hawkins Field. Vande...
Mar 14, 2026 Jonathan Mailhes
