BATON ROUGE — LSU’s Alex Lange must have felt awkward, but he’ll get used to it.
Plagued by lack of run support, he hadn’t pitched with a lead in his last three starts.
No problem Thursday.
This time Lange threw seven shutout innings on three hits — and spent most of the night watching the purple-and-gold fireworks as the Tigers hammered Ole Miss 15-2 to opening game of a Southeastern Conference series.
Lange (4-4) retired the first 13 batters he faced and allowed one Rebel to reach second base. He struck out seven while walking one.
It was overkill.
The Tigers had 15 hits and scored in each of the first seven innings with their second-most productive game of the season.
LSU scored seven of its first eight runs and 12 of the 15 with two outs.
Greg Deichmann’s 457-foot grand slam, his 11th home run of the season, capped the six-run sixth inning and gave him a career-high five RBIs for the night.
Antoine Duplantis went 4-for-4 and drove in four runs after being moved the No. 9 hole in the order due a recent slump.
But most everybody got into the act. Four Tigers — Duplantis, Kramer Robertson, Jake Slaughter and Michael Papierski — scored three runs apiece.
LSU (24-11, 8-6 SEC) can clinch the series tonight with Jared Poch? (6-1, 2.32 ERA) on the mound against Ole Miss’ David Parkinson (4-2, 2.85).
The Rebels (21-12, 6-7), who hadn’t give up double-digit runs this season, had a five-game winning streak broken.
LSU pitching hadn’t allowed a run in its last 20 innings of SEC play before the Rebels scored a pair with two outs in the bottom of the ninth.
The Tigers left some potential big innings on the board early, but did score single runs in the first four, then broke it open by batting around in the next two innings with four runs in the fifth and six in the sixth.
The big inning started after Ole Miss got the first two Tigers out before LSU promptly had six consecutive batters reach base on five singles and a hit batter.
They included RBI singles by Duplantis and Deichmann, along with a two-run single by Cole Freeman.
Russell Reynolds pitched a scoreless eighth, but Austin Bain walked a batter and hit another (on an 0-2 count), both of whom were doubled home by Tim Rowe with two outs in the ninth for the Rebels’ runs.
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