Tommy White on LSU's current run: 'I do it for the guys before me'

LSU ended the regular season on a heater and the winning ways have extended into the postseason. Wins against Georgia and Kentucky have put the Tigers into the SEC Baseball Tournament winners bracket. A mix of great pitching and 20 runs over two games is usually a recipe for success.

Tommy White has been a star of late, just adding to his total on Wednesday morning. According to the broadcast, White saw just eight pitches put ended up 2-4 with a grand slam and a walk. He is ready to swing the bat the moment he steps up to the plate, expanding his approach.

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“Hitters decide when to swing,” White said during a postgame interview with SEC Network. “I decide when to not swing. That’s just the way I go because you got to be ready for every single pitch. The one you’re not ready for tends to be the fastball right down the middle. So, I just try to be ready for every pitch in the zone and attack if I can go at it.”

Not too long ago, LSU was thought to be on the outside looking in for the NCAA Tournament. They were even on the bubble traveling to Hoover, with On3’s Jonathan Wagner slating them as one of the ‘Last Four In’ teams. Nobody in purple and gold expected to end the season early, especially White.

Playing for LSU means too much for him, wanting to carry on the legacy of the program’s previous great teams.

“I do it for the guys before me,” White said. “The guys last year, the guys before that. I feel like the guys here now and myself owe them all something to give it everything we got for the time being or whatever we have left. The guys before me, I see how they do it or how they run this program, how they show up, keep coming back. I’m going to continue to do that. This means way too much time for me, so I’m not going to take (the jersey) off right now.”

The run for LSU is currently 16 wins out of its last 21 games, catching fire down the stretch. Johnson did have to rebuild his roster after the national championship. Becoming a winning team just took some time, even if White knew they would be successful from the start.

“We’ve always had it,” White said. “People downplayed us all year but we knew we had it. We’re just showing it now.”