SEC Baseball Tournament 2023: Tuesday Scores, Updated Bracket and Schedule

The 2023 SEC baseball tournament officially commenced on Tuesday, kicking off the road to the Men's College World Series.

With eight teams ranked in the D1Baseball.com Top 25, the SEC is likely to be well-represented when the bracket is revealed on Monday. But first, they will go up against one another for conference supremacy.

Top-seeded Florida, ranked No. 2 in the nation, will have a first-round bye. The same goes for Arkansas, LSU and Vanderbilt, as they will all be in action on Wednesday when the double-elimination second round begins.

The first round is single elimination, so Tuesday's slate of games surely provided some excitement for the fans at Hoover Metropolitan Stadium in Hoover, Alabama.

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2023 SEC Baseball Tournament Results - Tuesday, May 23

No. 6 South Carolina def. No. 11 Georgia, 9-0

No. 10 Texas A&M def. No. 7 Tennessee, 3-0

No. 9 Alabama def. No. 8 Kentucky, 4-0

No. 5 Auburn def. No. 12 Missouri, 10-4

Wednesday, May 24

No. 6 South Carolina vs. No. 3 LSU, 10:30 a.m. ET

No. 10 Texas A&M vs. No. 2 Arkansas, 2 p.m. ET

No. 9 Alabama vs. No. 1 Florida, 5:30 p.m. ET

No. 5 Auburn vs. No. 4 Vanderbilt, 9 p.m. ET

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South Carolina 9, Georgia 0

The Gamecocks got the day started with a dominant win over the Bulldogs. South Carolina starter James Hicks and reliever Cade Austin combined to allow just five hits in the shutout victory.

Hicks struck out six batters over 6.2 innings of work before handing the ball over to Austin in a bases-loaded jam. Austin got out of it with a strikeout and allowed just two more baserunners, one hit and one walk, before closing out the game.

Meanwhile, the Gamecocks offense got going with a two-run single by Evan Stone in the second inning. Dylan Brewer and Michael Braswell added RBI singles of their own in the fourth inning before Cole Messina walked to drive in another run for a 5-0 lead.

The game got blown open when Will Tippett ripped a bases-loaded triple in the seventh to add more insurance runs.

The Gamecocks will face the third-seeded LSU Tigers in the second round on Wednesday.

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Texas A&M 3, Tennessee 0

The 2022 SEC tournament champions' run this year came to a swift end as the Volunteers suffered a shutout loss to the Aggies. A two-hour rain delay at the top of the ninth ruined Texas A&M pitcher Troy Wansing's bid for a complete-game one-hit shutout, but Tennessee was unable to take advantage when play resumed as Evan Aschenbeck closed things out in the ninth.

Wansing notched seven strikeouts with no walks in the victory. 66 of his 95 pitches were thrown for strikes as the Volunteers couldn't touch him.

The Aggies managed to scratch across a couple runs when Trevor Werner drove in Hunter Haas on a fielder's choice in the third and Austin Bost hit an RBI single in the fourth. In the sixth, Jace LaViolette blasted a leadoff home run to add some insurance.

The Aggies advanced to face the second-seeded Arkansas Razorbacks in the second round on Wednesday.

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Alabama 4, Kentucky 0

Alabama right fielder Andrew Pinckney did it all for the Crimson Tide en route to an opening-round win over Kentucky.

Pinckney cracked a two-run homer in the fourth inning to put Alabama up 2-0.

He later added a sixth-inning RBI on a groundout for a 3-0 edge. Finally, Pinckney hit an eighth-inning double and later scored for Alabama's fourth and final run.

In the field, Pinckney threw out Devin Burkes at home as he tried to score off a sacrifice fly in the second inning, ending the frame in the process.

The second-team All-SEC player got it done at the dish and in the field, and three Alabama pitchers also combined to throw nine shutout innings of six-hit ball, striking out five along the way. Hunter Furtado got the win after starting and throwing five innings. Kade Woods and Alton Davis II then threw two scoreless innings apiece.

Alabama now advances to the second round to face No. 1 seed Florida.

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Auburn 10, Missouri 4

Auburn outslugged Missouri to advance to the next round of the SEC tournament, clubbing 11 hits and scoring three runs in the third and eighth innings, and four runs in the fourth.

Mizzou took an early 1-0 lead in the second, but it wasn't long before Auburn erased the deficit on a bases-loaded walk, RBI groundout and sacrifice fly to make it 3-1.

While Missouri took back the lead with three runs in the top of the fourth, it was all Auburn from that point forward.

Auburn took the lead for good in the bottom of the fourth when it plated four runs, including a three-run home run by shortstop Cole Foster.

After a few scoreless innings, Auburn carried a 7-4 lead into the bottom of the eighth, and third baseman Bryson Ware put it away with a two-run homer as part of a three-run inning.

Foster and Ware were unquestionably the players of the game for Auburn, as they each finished with one home run and three RBI in the convincing victory.

By virtue of Tuesday's win, Auburn advanced to face the fourth-seeded Vanderbilt Commodores in the second round on Wednesday night.