BATON ROUGE — In the top of the sixth, Georgia’s Adam Swann hit a grand slam off of LSU starter Brian Tallet to break a 2-2 tie and lead the Bulldogs to a 7-3 win here in Baton Rouge.
Georgia starter Chris Clark improved to 3-1 on the season after a complete game six-hit perfomance. He gave up three earned runs while striking out nine and walking two.
The two teams will continue the three-game series Saturday at 4 p.m. and Sunday at 1 p.m.
The loss breaks a 15-game Southeastern Conference opening-game winning streak which dates back to Skip Bertman‘s first season in Tigerland, 1984. LSU lost to Auburn, 4-0, that season.
Also, before tonight, LSU hadn’t lost to Georgia at home since 1988.
Tallet, who was relieved by Weylin Guidry in the seventh, pitched 6 1/3 innings, allowing seven runs on eight hits while striking out two and striking out six. He fell to 4-2 on the season.
Guidry pitched 2 2/3 innings and gave up two hits while striking out four.
LSU put two runs on the board in the bottom of the fourth on a solo home run by Brad Cresse and an RBI single by Ryan Jorgensen to take a 2-0 lead.
After Georgia pickup up its first run on a ground ball through the infield in the fifth, the Bulldogs then exploited Tallet for five runs in the sixth including Swann’s grand slam.
The Tigers and Bulldogs traded runs in the seventh as Ryan Theriot singled in Jeremy Witten for the Tigers’ third run.