Auburn baseball vaults into the Top 10 after monster two weeks
AUBURN — Auburn baseball continues its rise up the rankings after a monster 4-0 week.
The Tigers (26-10, 9-6) beat ranked Georgia Tech on the road during a midweek contest, followed by sweeping then No. 3 LSU at home. It was the first time Auburn swept LSU since 1988.
The 4-0 week against ranked opponents comes immediately after the Tigers took two of three against ranked Alabama the weekend before. That’s 6-1 in their last seven ranked games and five straight wins overall.
Auburn has played 16 ranked opponents in their last 19 games, going 10-6 during the stretch.
The polls are taking notice.
Perfect Game ranks Auburn No. 6 in their latest Top 25. Baseball America ranks Auburn No. 7, while D1 Baseball ranks Auburn No. 8. According to all three rankings, the Tigers are the fourth-highest-ranked SEC team behind some order of Georgia, Tennessee and Arkansas.
Auburn’s schedule this week looks like this:
Tuesday at Jacksonville State: 6 p.m.
Thursday at No. 1 Texas: 7 p.m.
Friday at No. 1 Texas: 7 p.m.
Saturday at No. 1 Texas: 2 p.m.
The Tigers now have 12 wins against ranked opponents this season, including an 8-2 record against ranked opponents at Plainsman Park.
Tuesday’s win at Georgia Tech marked the team’s sixth one-run win of the season and fourth ranked win away from home. It was the team’s third win of the season when trialing after seven innings.
The pitching staff turned in a 2.67 ERA in three games against LSU, holding the visiting Tigers to eight runs on the weekend. The 2.67 ERA was the team’s best in a SEC series since turning in a 1.33 ERA in a sweep of Tennessee to start the 2019 SEC season.
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The eight runs allowed seven fewer than LSU has scored in any other weekend this season. The weekend not only marked the first sweep in 36 seasons, but was also the third series win against LSU in the last four meetings.
LSU entered the weekend hitting .328 as a team, the sixth best mark in the country, and Auburn held the visitors to a .188 average. It marked the second straight weekend the pitching staff held the opponent to under a .200 average.
The Tigers have turned in a 3.29 ERA with a .191 average against in the last two SEC weekends against Alabama and LSU, with a 3-2 win in the series finale against LSU, the Tigers are now 7-2 in one-run games this season.
The single-game attendance record was set on back-to-back nights Friday (6,756) and Saturday (7,231). The series attendance of 19,119 also surpassed last weekend’s total of 17,935 for the highest in program history. Auburn’s attendance of 118,117 through 23 home games is already the fourth highest total in program history, trailing each of the last three seasons.
The average attendance of 5,135 is almost 1,000 more than any other single-game average for a season. This weekend’s series at Texas marks the team’s sixth straight against a ranked opponent, including its fourth straight against a top-10 team.
