| Year: | 2019 |
| Conference: | Southeastern Conference |
| Shortconference: | SEC |
| Teams: | 12 |
| Format: | See below |
| Ballpark: | Hoover Metropolitan Stadium |
| City: | Hoover, AL |
| Champions: | Vanderbilt |
| Titlecount: | 3rd |
| Coach: | Tim Corbin |
| Coachcount: | 2nd |
| Mvp: | J.J. Bleday |
| Mvpteam: | Vanderbilt |
| Television: | SEC Network, ESPN2 (Championship game) |
| Different Next: | 2021 |
The 2019 Southeastern Conference baseball tournament was held from May 21 through 26 at Hoover Metropolitan Stadium in Hoover, Alabama. The annual tournament determined the tournament champion of the Division I Southeastern Conference in college baseball. The tournament champion earned the conference's automatic bid to the 2019 NCAA Division I baseball tournament[1]
The tournament has been held every year since 1977, with LSU claiming twelve championships, the most of any school. Original members Georgia and Kentucky along with 1993 addition Arkansas have never won the tournament. This is the twentieth consecutive year and twenty-second overall that the event has been held at Hoover Metropolitan Stadium, known from 2007 through 2012 as Regions Park. Texas A&M joined in 2013, and won its first title in 2016. Missouri, which also joined in 2013, has yet to win the event.
The regular season division winners claimed the top two seeds and the next ten teams by conference winning percentage, regardless of division, claimed the remaining berths in the tournament. The bottom eight teams played a single-elimination opening round, followed by a double-elimination format until the semifinals, when the format reverted to single elimination through the championship game. This was the sixth year of this format.[2] [3]
| Team | W–L | Pct | GB #1 | Seed | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eastern Division | ||||||
| 23–7 | – | 1 | ||||
| 21–9 | 3 | |||||
| 14–16 | 9 | |||||
| 13–16–1 | 10 | |||||
| 13–17 | 11 | |||||
| 8–22 | 12 | |||||
| 7–23 | – | |||||
| Team | W–L | Pct | GB #1 | Seed | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Western Division | ||||||
| 20–10 | 2 | |||||
| 20–10 | 4 | |||||
| 17–13 | 5 | |||||
| 16–13–1 | 6 | |||||
| 16–14 | 7 | |||||
| 14–16 | 8 | |||||
| 7–23 | – | |||||
| Game | Time* | Matchup# | Television | Attendance | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tuesday, May 21 | |||||||
| 1 | 9:30 a.m. | No. 6 Texas A&M vs. No. 11 Florida | SEC Network | 4,135[4] | |||
| 2 | 1:00 p.m. | No. 7 Ole Miss vs. No. 10 Missouri | |||||
| 3 | 4:30 p.m. | No. 8 Auburn vs. No. 9 Tennessee | 10,128[5] | ||||
| 4 | No. 5 LSU vs. No. 12 South Carolina | ||||||
| Wednesday, May 22 | |||||||
| 5 | 9:30 a.m. | No. 3 Georgia vs. No. 6 Texas A&M | SEC Network | 5,264[6] | |||
| 6 | 1:00 p.m. | No. 2 Arkansas vs. No. 7 Ole Miss | |||||
| 7 | 4:30 p.m. | No. 1 Vanderbilt vs. No. 8 Auburn | 13,902[7] | ||||
| 8 | 8:00 p.m. | No. 4 Mississippi State vs. No. 5 LSU | |||||
| Thursday, May 23 | |||||||
| 9 | 9:30 a.m. | No. 6 Texas A&M vs. No. 7 Ole Miss | SEC Network | 6,891[8] | |||
| 10 | 1:00 p.m. | No. 8 Auburn vs. No. 5 LSU | |||||
| 11 | 4:30 p.m. | No. 2 Arkansas vs. No. 3 Georgia | 8,620[9] | ||||
| 12 | 8:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Friday, May 24 | |||||||
| 13 | 3:00 p.m. | No. 7 Ole Miss vs. No. 2 Arkansas | SEC Network | 14,294[10] | |||
| 14 | 6:30 p.m. | No. 5 LSU vs. No. 4 Mississippi State | |||||
| Semifinals – Saturday, May 25 | |||||||
| 15 | Noon | No. 3 Georgia vs. No. 7 Ole Miss | SEC Network | 12,872[11] | |||
| 16 | 3:30 p.m. | No. 1 Vanderbilt vs. No. 5 LSU | |||||
| Championship – Sunday, May 26 | |||||||
| 17 | 2:00 p.m. | No. 7 Ole Miss vs. No. 1 Vanderbilt | ESPN2 | 10,487[12] | |||
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