Omaha, Neb .- No. 6 LSU took a 5-3 lead over number 15 UCLA on Monday night, when the men’s college world series game was suspended after a long rains.
Teams will start playing at the beginning of the fourth innings on ET at 11 am on Tuesday.
Both teams won their initial bracket 2 games on Saturday. The suspended game loser will return to action in an elimination game against number 3 Arkansas on Tuesday night. The winner of the later competition will have to defeat the winner of the suspended game twice to reach the MCWS final series.
UCLA got LSU Starter Anthony Isanan early, scoring three runs in the top of the first innings. The disadvantage began with one by the third basman Roman Martin with an RBI double.
Bruins left two more runs without a ball. AJ Salgado ran into one with a hard-hit infield single, and Petan Brainon offered one and a swinging divided by Issan.
The tigers hit back the right, in which Jake Brown driving with the RBI Single of UCLA Starter Landon Stump in the first run of LSU game. Jeed Jones then deposited his 21st homer of the season in the right-sensor bleachers, a three-run shot to give the tigers a 4-3 lead.
Ison then settled in a drain, retiring six of the seven batsmen faced in the second and third innings. LSU took a 5–3 lead in third over RBI single of Luis Hernandez, before the game was suspended before the fourth innings with a dangerous season in the region.
The coastal Carolina bracket is 2–0 in 1 and is waiting for the winner of the elimination game on Tuesday between Louisville and Oregon State.
-Derek Harper, Field Level Media
