A quick glance at the LSU baseball team’s 2014 statistics sheet reveals that outfielder Jared Foster’s season has been a bigger disappointment than Pacific Rim. The junior has started just 12 of the team’s 49 games, hitting . 176 with zero home runs and six stolen bases in the process.
But the outfielder has yet to commit an error in the 32 games he has appeared in, so LSU head coach Paul Mainieri decided to put Foster in left field as a defensive replacement late in Friday’s game versus Texas A&M.
According to Deadspin, LSU entered the bottom of the ninth inning with a 4-0 lead, but the Tigers’ pitching staff pulled their best John Axford impression and blew it, as A&M scored four runs to tie it with two outs. And when Blake Allemand hit a fly ball to deep left field, it looked as though LSU was going to be a tough-luck loser.
Well, that is until Foster made what is easily the catch of the year:
Foster’s grab would send the game into extra innings, and LSU would go on to win after plating one run in the top of the tenth.
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