The LSU Fighting Tiger baseball team had their backs against the wall on Monday night at Alex Box Staduim.

Trailing 5-1 after three innings, the Tigers needed multiple sparks to save their season and avoid a massive upset.

After Zac Cowan struggled to throw quality strikes, Jay Johnson made an early move to get Casen Evans from the bullpen.

Evans fired one of the best postseason relief performances in recent postseason memory, going 6 innings, allowing just 1 run while striking out 12, including a magical run of nine batters in a row.

Offensively, Ethan Fry was moved up to the second spot in the order and made the most of it, providing arguably the most important swing of the night when he laced a bases-clearing double into the right center field gap to cut the Trojans’ lead to 5-4.

In the 6th, Senior catcher Luis Hernandez connected on his first of two home runs on the night to tie the game at five.

Steven Milam gave LSU the lead in the 6th with an RBI groundout, and from that point forward, the Tigers never looked back.

Hernandez homered again in the 8th, and that proved to be a huge run as Little Rock would respond in their half of the inning to cut the lead back one.

In the 9th, LSU broke the game open, scoring three runs, capped off by a much-needed two-run blast off the bat of Jarred Jones.

After firing a scoreless outing against Little Rock just days ago, Anthony Eyanson came out of the bullpen and shut the game down, earning the save after 1.2 clean innings.

With the win, LSU wins the Baton Rouge regional and will host a super regional this weekend at the Box.

The Tigers will take on the West Virginia Mountaineers for a chance to make the College World Series for the 20th time.