WORLD SERIES: Gators’ Singer strikes out 12

will pitch against Tyler Dyson (3-0) tonight.

“We’re not hanging our heads about anything,” he said. “We had a lot of great stuff we did tonight. We had a couple of tough breaks that didn’t go our way. We’re going to come out tomorrow with a lot of pos- itivity, energy and get after it.”

Singer struck out a career-high 12 in seven innings before turning the game over to closer Michael Byrne, who picked up his nation-leading 19th save for the Gators (51-19). The Gators improved to 19-7 in one-run games.

Singer relied on his fastball the first time through LSU’s batting order and cleverly mixed in sliders the rest of the way.

“I felt like I was landing it a lot more for strikes than I usually do,” he said. “The slider did feel good.”

His strikeout total was the highest by a single pitcher in a CWS finals game. Singer (9-5) limited LSU (5219) to three singles before Antoine Duplantis homered in the sixth.