Tigers show no mercy in another run-rule victory

By Scooter Hobbs American Press LSU’s Josh Pearson saw only one pitch the entire game Wednesday, but it was all he needed to send baseball purists scurrying for the official scoring rule book. The pinch hitter jerked the first pitch over the leftfield bleachers in the bottom of the eighth to invoke the mercy rule into the Tigers’ 12-1 victory over Nicholls State. It was the unbeaten Tigers’ third mercy-rule win in their five games — and, yes, by the...