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Samuel Dutton Season 2025

#17

Samuel Dutton Season 2025

PositionRHP
Weight199 lbs
Height5-11
ClassSenior
HometownSouthside, Ala.
Previous SchoolLSU

2024 – JUNIOR SEASON AT LSU
Made a career-high 20 appearances, including four starts … posted a 5.86 ERA with a save and struck out 29 batters with just six walks in 27.2 innings … didn’t allow a run in his first four appearances of the season … turned in a combined 4.1 hitless innings against Southern (Apr. 1) and McNeese (Apr. 9) … pitched a season-high 2.1 innings vs. Texas A&M (May 5) … made four postseason appearances, including a pair in the College World Series matchups vs. North Carolina (June 1 and 3).

2023 – SOPHOMORE SEASON AT LSU
Pitched in 19 games as a reliever … posted a 7.97 ERA in 20.1 innings with seven walks and 21 strikeouts … worked 2.0 innings versus Grambling (March 28), allowing one run on three hits with one walk and four strikeouts, a mark that tied his career high for Ks … recorded three strikeouts in 1.0 inning vs. Florida in Game 2 of the College World Series Finals (June 25) … a member of the 2023 SEC Academic Honor Roll as a sport administration major.

2022 – FRESHMAN SEASON AT LSU
Pitched in 18 games, including 11 starts … posted a 1-1 record and a 5.12 ERA in 38.2 innings with 12 walks and 26 strikeouts … worked as the Game 3 starter in the Tigers’ final nine SEC regular-season weekends … did not issue a walk in his final seven appearances of the year (13.1 innings) … earned his first collegiate win vs. Southeastern La. (May 10), working the first 3.0 innings of the game and allowing one run on two hits with no walks and two strikeouts … delivered the longest outing of his collegiate career vs. Georgia (May 1), limiting the Bulldogs to two runs on four hits with no walks and four strikeouts in 4.2 innings … provided an excellent start to Game 3 at Arkansas (April 16), pitching 4.0 innings and allowing one run on two hits with two walks and two strikeouts … started Game 3 at Mississippi State (April 10), limiting the Bulldogs to one run on four hits in three innings with no walks and one strikeout … made the first start of his collegiate career at Florida (Mar. 27) and blanked the Gators in a 3.2-inning outing, allowing one hit with one strikeout … pitched effectively against Texas A&M with two appearances in the series (March 18 and 20) …  worked a total of three innings in the series, allowing just one run on four hits with two walks and four strikeouts.

HIGH SCHOOL
Attended Westbrook Christian High School … named the 2021 Class 2A Player of the Year … helped Westbrook Christian to their first state championship in 2021 … selected First-Team All-American by Collegiate Baseball … a member of the USA Baseball 2019 16U National Team Development Program … tied the Alabama High School Athletic Association record for no-hitters in a season with four … tossed a perfect game in his senior season … finished his senior season 9-0 with a 0.40 ERA and 117 strikeouts, allowing 14 hits and five walks over 53.0 innings … also hit .515 in his senior season with a .612 on base percentage, tallying four home runs and 39 RBI.