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THE FLORIDA GATORS AND THE LSU TIGERS
It's the best two words in the College World Series: Game 3.
After a thrilling Game 1 win by LSU on Saturday, Florida responded with a historic beatdown Sunday to force a winner-take-all Game 3 tonight.
In Game 1, LSU slugger Tommy White helped force extra innings with a game-tying eighth-inning blast, once again living up to his "Tanks" nickname. White also hit a walk-off home run against Wake Forest last week to put LSU in the World Series Finals.Then in the 11th inning, Cade Beloso hit a go-ahead home run, and lefty Riley Cooper finished the deal, pitching a scoreless bottom of the inning. There were no late-game dramatics in Game 2. After LSU led 3-1 through two innings, Florida scored six runs in the third and never looked back, eventually finishing with a College World Series Finals-record 24 runs in a 24-4 romp. The Gators also set finals records for winning margin (20), hits (23) and home runs (six).Now comes what should be a terrific final game: LSU's star headliners Dylan Crews and potentially Paul Skenes (who go 1-2 in Mike Axisa's MLB mock draft) against Wyatt Langford (the No. 3 pick in Mike's mock) and a loaded Gators lineup.
With the dog days of summer upcoming and the MLB in its mid-season grind, this is an awesome change of pace: a win-or-go-home baseball game, which we won't get again for many months. Enjoy it.
