{"id":657912,"date":"2026-04-02T02:19:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T02:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/657912\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T02:19:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T02:19:23","slug":"tennessee-baseball-wearing-black-alternate-jerseys-vs-lsu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/657912\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee baseball wearing black alternate jerseys vs. LSU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tennessee baseball will debut their dark mode jerseys for the first time this season on Saturday when the Vols play host to LSU at 6 p.m. ET from Lindsey Nelson Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>The game will be televised on ESPN2 with Mike Monaco, Kyle Peterson and VFL Chris Burke.<\/p>\n<p>The program has showcased the black alternate jersey design \u2013 with Vols in block orange letters across the chest with white pants and a black hat with interlocking UT logo \u2013 for some of the biggest games over the past decade. <\/p>\n<p>Tennessee wore the uniform design for the 6-5 win over Texas A&amp;M in Game 3 of the 2024 College World Series championship series.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u26ab\ufe0f\ud83d\udfe0DARK MODE \ud83d\udfe0\u26ab\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>Prepare your finest attire for Saturday night against the Tigers!<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/GBO?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#GBO<\/a>\ud83c\udf4a\u26ab\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KRn93jyG0f\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/KRn93jyG0f<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tennessee Baseball (@Vol_Baseball) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Vol_Baseball\/status\/2039447714157744191?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 1, 2026<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Cam Appenzeller named to prestigious watch lists<\/p>\n<p>Tennessee baseball star left-handed pitcher\u00a0Cam Appenzeller\u00a0has earned a spot on a couple of prestigious midseason teams and watch lists that were announced Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The southpaw was named one of 15 players on the Baseball America Freshman of the Year Watch list and was also tabbed to the Perfect Game Midseason Freshman All-American Team.<\/p>\n<p>The full Baseball America Freshman of the Year Midseason\u00a0Watch List can be found\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseballamerica.com\/stories\/baseball-america-2026-midseason-college-freshman-of-the-year-watch-list\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a>\u00a0while all of Perfect Game\u2019s Midseason All-America teams can be seen\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.perfectgame.org\/Articles\/View.aspx?article=24231&amp;src=hmrep\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In three Southeastern Conference appearances, the southpaw has pitched\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/teams\/tennessee-volunteers\/news\/tennessee-baseball-josh-elander-cam-appenzeller-garrett-wright\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">13.1 innings of scoreless baseball<\/a>, giving up eight hits with 13 strikeouts to just one walk. Appenzeller owns a 3-0 record on the season with a 1.37 ERA across 26.1 innings pitched with 29 strikeouts and only four walks. Opponents are hitting just .180 against him. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Appenzeller was considered the No. 22 overall prospect in the 2025 Perfect Game rankings and the third-ranked left-handed pitcher. The lefty was tabbed the No. 3 player in Illinois and was drafted in the 19th\u00a0round by the Seattle Mariners last summer in the 2025 MLB Draft.<\/p>\n<p>The high school standout was viewed as an early round draft prospect and considered a draft risk, but Tony Vitello and Josh Elander were able to get him to campus. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tennessee baseball will debut their dark mode jerseys for the first time this season on Saturday when the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":441128,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2276],"tags":[5,2291,4,1586,2409,2410],"class_list":{"0":"post-657912","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb-draft","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-major-league-baseball-draft","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-mlb-draft","12":"tag-regwall","13":"tag-tennessee-baseball"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116332722401280624","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/441128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}