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Tennessee Baseball: Vols Begin Game One of SEC Tournament vs LSU Tigers

By Caleb Calhoun

Sep 12, 2015; Knoxville, TN, USA; Tennessee Volunteers mascot carries the flag through the fans during Vol Walk prior to the game against the Oklahoma Sooners at Neyland Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Jim Brown-USA TODAY Sports
Sep 12, 2015; Knoxville, TN, USA; Tennessee Volunteers mascot carries the flag through the fans during Vol Walk prior to the game against the Oklahoma Sooners at Neyland Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Jim Brown-USA TODAY Sports /
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Tennessee baseball will begin the SEC Tournament as the No. 12 seed. The Volunteers will face the No. 5 seed LSU Tigers in their first game Tuesday night.

In what should be Dave Serrano’s final chance to keep his job, Tennessee baseball has to make a last-ditch effort to reach the NCAA Tournament, which it has not done in a decade.

That chance is by shocking the world as the lowest seed in the SEC Tournament.

The 29-27 Vols somehow squeaked into the tournament despite a 9-21 SEC record, and it came from an unlikely victory in the final two games of the regular season against the Georgia Bulldogs.

Perhaps Tennessee is riding a new wave of momentum after those victories, but we had been down that road before after they shockingly took two out of three from the Vanderbilt Commodores a few weeks ago.

Now, they have to face an LSU Tigers team that just swept the in Knoxville less than two weeks ago, so the prospects look bleak, and there’s not much to get excited about.

Add in the fact that the Tigers are a Top 10 team and just took two of three from the No. 1 ranked Florida Gators, and the prospects look really bleak.

But hey, crazier things have happened.

If Tennessee is going to win this game and advance, they are going to have to match LSU’s offensive firepower with numerous extra base hits on their own. The Vols are capable of getting on base, they just can’t drive in the runs.

That will require the help of Nick Senzel and Vincent Jackson.

LSU will put up runs, and Tennessee’s relievers will allow more. So the only chance for the Vols is to match what the Tigers do, and that requires Chris Hall getting on base and Senzel, Jackson, and Jordan Rodgers driving in runs.

But even if they do all that and magically win, they would have to face the Gators next, so don’t get your hopes up too much.

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