Kade Anderson.
Those are the only two words needed to summarize LSU (28-3, 8-2) taking game one of its weekend series against the Oklahoma Sooners (23-6, 5-5) Thursday night in Norman.
Anderson went the distance Thursday night, throwing a career-high 135 pitches and 14 strikeouts en route to a complete game shutout. It’s the first complete game shutout by a Tiger pitcher since AJ Labas did it in 2018.
Offense, clearly, was hard to come by in LSU’s 2-0 win as the Tigers and Sooners threw their aces at one another. Anderson was superior, but Kyson Witherspoon was no pushover and on any other night his six innings of two-run ball would have been good enough for an Oklahoma win.