The rival Florida Gators completed the season sweep over FSU baseball with a 4-3 win on Tuesday night in Tallahassee. For whatever reason, the FSU offense can’t put anything together against the Gators when it matters.
FSU starting pitcher Cooper Whited went 4.1 innings and allowed two earned runs, four hits, zero walks, and two strikeouts. The two earned runs were solo home runs. Reliever Gabe Nard allowed two earned runs in .2 innings, and that was the difference in the game.
The rest of the FSU bullpen allowed one hit, three walks, and three strikeouts. The FSU offense wasn’t as anemic as it had been in the previous two games. They managed nine hits (but three or four were weakly hit infield singles). The major damage came from a Hunter Carns two-run home run to trim the Florida lead to 4-3 in the bottom of the eighth inning.
Hunter puts us within a run with a big swing to left! pic.twitter.com/CFNA7GKjUL
— FSU Baseball (@FSUBaseball) April 8, 2026
At least FSU competed hard till the end and didn't lay down when it was 4-1 in the eighth inning I guess.
FSU had runners on first and second with one out, but Cal Fisher and John Stuetzer struck out against a freshman pitcher. FSU had the tying run on in the bottom of the ninth with two outs,1 and Brayden Dowd struck out to end the game.
FSU batters struck out 11 times, and freshman Kelvyn Paulino had a costly baserunning blunder that potentially cost FSU a chance to score. There are too many mental errors against the Florida Gators. Hitters look at too many first-pitch fastballs and swing at balls in hitter counts.
FSU will need to shake the loss off quickly as they travel to face top five Georgia Tech for a three-game series on Thursday night.