Giovanni DiGiacomo

Height:
6-1
Weight:
187
Class:
Graduate Student
Hometown:
Naples, Fla.
High School:
Canterbury HS
B/T:
L/L

Awards

2021 SEC Academic Honor Roll
2020 SEC Academic Honor Roll
2019 SEC First-Year Academic Honor Roll

2023: Started 53 of the 61 games he appeared in after transferring from LSU… Posted a four-hit day against Virginia (4/28)… Finished the season with a .268 batting average with 15 extra base hits… Scored 36 runs and walked 34 times for the Blue Devils… Was second on the team with 20 stolen bases, one of just two players to steal 20 or more bases in 2023… Tallied four RBI against Virginia (4/28) with two being for extra bases… Hit a home run in the Conway Regional Finals against Coastal Carolina (6/5)…

2022 Season
Played in 36 games (18 starts), batting .206 (14-for-68) with three doubles, three homers, 26 RBI and 11 runs … homered and drove in two runs in March 19 game vs. Texas A&M … 3-for-4 with one double, one homer and two RBI in March 13 win over Bethune-Cookman … 2-for-3 with a homer and four RBI in Feb. 20 win over Maine

2021 Season
Played in 31 games (29 starts in center field), batting .293 (29-for-99) with four doubles, one triple, two homers, 16 RBI, 17 runs and five steals … suffered a hamstring injury in the second game of the season vs. Air Force on Feb. 21, and missed 23 of the Tigers’ first 28 games … provided game-winning, walk-off single in the bottom of the 10th inning of LSU’s NCAA Eugene Regional win over Central Connecticut (June 5) … 5-for-9 in the Alabama series (May 14-16) with two homers, four RBI and two runs scored … his two homers both came in the May 16 win over the Crimson Tide; prior to that game, he had one career LSU home run, which came on May 22, 2019, against Mississippi State in the SEC Tournament at Hoover, Ala. … 4-for-5 in Game 1 of May 1 doubleheader versus Arkansas with one double, two RBI and two runs scored … 3-for-4 vs. UL Monroe (April 20) with two runs scored and two steals … 3-for-5 at Kentucky on April 9 with three runs scored.

2020 Season
Finished as LSU’s leading hitter in 2020, batting .351 (13-for-37) with two doubles, one triple, four RBI, nine runs and five stolen bases … played in 13 games with 12 starts in center field … batted .471 (8-for-17) during LSU’s five-game win streak to end the season and raised his cumulative batting average from .261 to .351 in the five-game span … 7-for-11 in three-game series vs. UMass Lowell (March 6-8) with two doubles, one triple, three RBI, two stolen bases and five runs scored.

2019 Season
Played in 53 games (33 starts), batting .275 (38-for-138) with three doubles, one triple, one homer, 15 RBI, 31 runs and six stolen bases … started 17 games at DH, eight in left field, six in center field and two in right field … posted an 11-game hit streak from March 16-April 3; batted .333 (13-for-39) in that span with one double, six RBI and seven runs … ignited LSU’s two-run rally in the bottom of the ninth inning of SEC Tournament walk-off win vs. Auburn (May 23) … led off the ninth with a single with LSU trailing 3-2; he later scored the tying run on a wild pitch and the winning run followed immediately on an error during the same play … collected three RBI in SEC Tournament game versus Mississippi State (May 22) with a two-run homer and a sacrifice fly … batted .385 (5-for-13) in the Florida series (April 18-20) with one doubles, one RBI and two runs scored … drew a bases-loaded walk in the bottom of the 12th inning vs. Kentucky (March 16) to give LSU a 2-1 walk-off win … delivered a two-out single in the bottom of the ninth inning on March 8 versus California, keeping an LSU rally alive with the Tigers trailing, 3-2 … later scored the winning walk-off run on shortstop Josh Smith’s RBI single.
Prior to LSU
Selected in the 29th round of the 2018 MLB Draft by the Pittsburgh Pirates … played in the summer of 2018 for the Gaithersburg (Md.) Giants in the Cal Ripken Collegiate League, producing two doubles, one triple, five RBI and 14 runs scored. … batted .378 in 2018 as a senior at Canterbury High School in Fort Myers, Fla., with six homers, 31 RBI and 25 runs scored … batted a cumulative .440 in his junior and senior seasons at Canterbury High with 11 doubles, four triples, nine homers, 67 RBI and 19 stolen bases … helped lead Canterbury High to state championships in 2017 and 2018 and was voted the 2018 Class 3A Player of the Year … earned 2018 and 2017 All-America, All-Area and All-Regional recognition … played his first two high school seasons at Naples (Fla.) HS, batting a cumulative .384 with six doubles, four triples, one homer, 38 RBI and 16 stolen bases … also played football and ran track during his junior and senior seasons at Canterbury HS.

Personal
Full name is Giovanni Elijah DiGiacomo … majored in microbiology at LSU … born May 18, 2000.