BATON ROUGE — Game 1 of the LSU Baseball Purple-Gold World Series begins at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday in Alex Box Stadium. The three-game intrasquad series signals the conclusion of LSU’s five-week fall practice session.
Game 2 is set for 3:30 p.m. Wednesday and Game 3 starts at 3:30 p.m. Thursday. All games will be seven innings, and they are open to the public with free admission.
“The Purple-Gold World Series creates a lot of enthusiasm within our team,” said LSU head coach Paul Mainieri. “We’ve had an outstanding fall practice period, and these games will give us a chance to evaluate the team in a competitive atmosphere.”
LSU hitting coach Javi Sanchez will serve as the head coach of the Purple team, and he will be assisted by Tigers’ equipment manager Matt Montgomery. Sanchez has managed the winning team in the last three Purple-Gold World Series, compiling an 8-0-1 mark in the fall event.
LSU assistant coach Will Davis will be the head coach of the Gold squad, and he will be assisted by equipment manager Jeremy Brokaw.
The Gold team will start senior right-hander Ben Alsup on the mound in Game 1, while the Purple will counter with junior right-hander Tyler Jones.
Game 2 will match Gold freshman right-hander Kevin Gausman versus Purple senior right-hander Daniel Bradshaw. Gold freshman right-hander Kurt McCune will start Game 3 against a Purple starting pitcher to be determined.
The coaches conducted a draft on Monday in order to form the two squads for the series. Below are the rosters for this week’s games:
PURPLE TEAM
Manager: Javi Sanchez
Assistant Coach: Matt Montgomery
No. Player
33 Kevin Berry, RHP/INF
24 Daniel Bradshaw, RHP
46 Jamie Bruno, OF/INF
2 Marcus Davis, OF
37 Ryan Eades, RHP/INF
16 Matt Fury, INF
11 Tyler Hanover, INF
23 JaCoby Jones, INF
30 Tyler Jones, RHP
10 Zach LaSuzzo, LHP
8 Mikie Mahtook, OF
Randal Meyer, RHP
Coklin Nguyen, RHP
36 Austin Nola, SS
4 Raph Rhymes, INF/OF
38 Nick Rumbelow, RHP
6 Jordy Snikeris, C
GOLD TEAM
Manager: Will Davis
Assistant Coach: Jeremy Brokaw
No. Player
47 Ben Alsup, RHP
58 Chris Cotton, LHP
41 Kirk Cunningham, RHP
27 Beau Didier, INF
7 Grant Dozar , UTIL
17 Jimmy Dykstra, RHP
13 Alex Edward, INF
12 Kevin Gausman, RHP
14 Mason Katz, OF
20 Kevin Koziol, INF
14 Mike Lowery, INF
39 Kurt McCune, RHP
22 Matty Ott, RHP
9 Samuel Peterson, C/RHP
18 Mike Reed, RHP
26 Tyler Ross, C
35 Jackson Slaid, C
3 Trey Watkins, OF