LSU committed four errors Saturday in the SEC baseball tournament, unheard for such a good fielding team.

Got to get that cleaned up.

But that’s probably nitpicking.

You have to squint for flaws when critiquing an 11-0 mercy-rule win over South Carolina for an LSU team that heads into today’s 2 p.m. championship game thinking it can do no wrong.

Maybe head coach Paul Mainieri will finger-wag about the uncommon miscues to keep his team level-headed for today’s game, which, in reality, means nothing beyond a trinket for the trophy case, one that by next week no one will remember who won.

How do you calm down a team that has invoked the mercy rule twice in three tournament victories, has now scored double-digit runs against five consecutive SEC opponents and outscored their competition in Hoover 33-3 with back-to-back shutouts and a red-hot offense that is putting up Monopoly-money type numbers?

“I think the game went as well you hoped for,” Mainieri said.

Oh, really?

You think?

Mainieri takes this tournament seriously, even when he doesn’t have to. Which is most of the time. Whatever dust bin the Tigers stash those tournament trophies in, Mainieri can likely tell you exactly how many of them are there.

Me, I had to look it up. It turns out he has five of them in his previous 10 years with the Tigers.

He’s 30-6 all-time in the SEC tournament. Four other coaches have reached 30 wins in Hoover — but all had at least 18 losses before getting to 30.

Mainieri is 5-0 in the SEC tournament championship games, and this might be the hottest team he’s ever spent Sunday in Hoover with.

They’re on a 10-game winning streak, 12 straight against SEC teams. Yes, all those midweek losses seem as distant now as they are trivial in retrospect.

So that will have to be some kind of powerful come-down-to-earth speech that Mainieri conjures up to counter the confidence that seemed to be edging closer toward cockiness against the Gamecocks.

I’m trying slip the three-error blip into the conversation again, but it’s probably a reach. This is too good of a defensive team — and it has been the one constant all season — for the miscues to become contagious. Besides, none of them amounted to anything Saturday.

Actually, if Mainieri wanted to get the attention of a team that may be thinking it can do no wrong, all he had to do was let them stick around the Hoover Met for the second game of the tournament semifinals Saturday.

Arkansas also mercy-ruled Florida, but the Razorbacks showed far less mercy in beating the top-seeded Gators 16-0. That was at last check. It’s quite possible that Arkansas may have scored some more runs overnight.

Trivia buffs may note that it’s the first time in tournament history that both semifinal games ended in run-rules.

LSU at least showed some mercy. The Tigers didn’t score after piling up all 11 runs in the first three innings.

The Razorbacks were still piling it on, with two runs in the seventh (and final) inning.

Both LSU and Arkansas, in fact, come in with back-to-back wins that needed only seven innings.

There was a difference in the semifinals.

The Tigers did it against a depleted South Carolina pitching staff that had to draw straws to get Colby Lee on the mound (and for longer than he should have been if there had been many options in the bullpen).

The Razorbacks did it against a pitcher, Florida’s Brady Singer, who the Tigers remember throwing a complete game against them in an 8-1 Gators victory in the regular season.

Singer had given up two home runs in his career before Saturday — he served up three to the Razorbacks.

LSU had 14 more hits in its game, including three home runs — one to lead off the game by Kramer Robertson, two more by Greg Deichmann.

Just about everything LSU hit, if it didn’t leave the yard, fell (or blooped) in somewhere conveniently devoid of Gamecocks.

That’s what happens when things are going good. And it seems almost too good to trust LSU right now.

It got silly ridiculous when South Carolina had its best chance to score in the fourth inning. LSU’s Jared Poch? unleashed one of the worst pitches of his four-year career with an innocent Gamecock on third base.

Jonah Bride, of course, following long-standing baseball tradition, immediately broke for home.

Bride turned out to be a bridesmaid again. The wild pitch bounced perfectly off the backstop — it generally has to be really wild to do that — right back to catcher Michael Papierski, who was en route to retrieve it. He calmly tossed to Poch?, who was waiting patiently (and probably apologetically) to tag out Bride.

That stunt wasn’t showing much mercy.

But those things happen. That one, in particular, maybe once or twice a season. If you’re lucky.

You don’t really want to be using up that kind of baseball good fortune in an 11-0 victory.

But what’s a coach to do?

Scooter Hobbs covers LSU athletics. Email him at shobbs@americanpress.com