The No. 9 Oklahoma baseball team received the pitching it needed Thursday night against No. 5 LSU, but the bats went quiet in the Sooners' 2-0 loss to the Tigers.
LSU retired the last 12 Oklahoma batters of the game to send OU to its third loss in its last four Southeastern Conference games. The Tigers picked up individual runs in the third inning and the fifth to provide more than enough for starter Cade Anderson.
Anderson pitched a 135-pitch complete game and moved to 6-0 with the shutout. He struck out 15 OU batters and just five hits, only one for extra bases, and two walks. Oklahoma had just one batter reach even second base after the third inning.
Meanwhile, Jared Jones hit an RBI single in the third to open the scoring and Chris Stanfield added a run-scoring double in the fifth. The doubles were a problem for Oklahoma ace Kyson Witherspoon, who allowed just six hits in his six innings, but four of those hits went for two bases.
Sam Christiansen was the only Oklahoma hitter to reach base more than once. He went 2 for 3 with a double and a walk. Easton Carmichael, Jaxon Willits and Dayton Tockey all hit singles.
The Sooners fell to .500, an even 5-5, in SEC play. Games 2 and 3 against the Tigers are scheduled at L. Dale Mitchell Park on Friday at 6:30 p.m. and Saturday at 2 p.m.
This article originally appeared on Sooners Wire: Cade Anderson shuts out Oklahoma in LSU's 2-0 win
