Big hits: JaCoby Jones knotted the score at 2-2 with a dinger of a home run in the ninth inning to get the Tigers back in the super regional game with Stony Brook in Alex Box stadium today. It seemed to trigger a barrage of home runs: one after another, but one at a time for each team in each inning, to tie the score at 4-4 in the 12th. And just like the past few days this week, the rains came, postponing the game at 3:10 p.m. “If it’s anything like the last few days in Baton Rouge, we may be done today,” sportswriter Randy Rosetta of The Advocate tweeted. LSU and Stony Brook’s next scheduled game in this tournament is at 11 a.m. Saturday.
Cut off: I’ll Have Another’s bid for the first Triple Crown in 34 years ended the day before the Belmont Stakes with a swollen tendon, reports The Associated Press here. Yet The Christian Science Monitor says it’s still a horse race, with a million-dollar race Saturday evening that showcases three contenders.
Fed posturing: Forbes says we saw yesterday how the 1% got to be so rich, with Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke’s revelation of keeping options open when it comes to the stock market. The magazine observes here that the Fed’s “steroids” have so far failed to build the nation’s economic muscle.
