Every baseball game has them.

Whether it's a starting pitcher going seven innings of scoreless baseball, a star hitter smashing a walkoff home run, a relief pitcher coming into the game and shutting the door to preserve a win on an opposing team who was trying to rally late, every contest has "points of inflection" LSU baseball coach Jay Johnson calls them.

And after every LSU win, Johnson likes to commemorate those victories by handing out the game's lineup card to the player that came through for the "Magic Moment."

"I think it's good," Johnson said. "You want to develop confidence and when you win those winning moments and acknowledge that, I think that develops confidence."

The tradition predates Johnson's hiring at LSU three seasons ago. He got the idea from his former boss, Rich Hill during their time coaching together at San Diego. Hill, who's now the head coach at Hawaii, lifted the premise from the Los Angeles Lakers during the "Showtime" era with Pat Riley as coach along with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Magic Johnson and others.

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"I stole that from my boss, Rich Hill who's now the coach at Hawaii. He took it from the Lakers back in the day, Pat Riley was the coach. There's a moment in the game that defines winning and losing and the competitor, warrior, player steps up and grabs it," Johnson said. "You think about Magic Johnson making a no-look pass, Kareem hitting a game-winning skyhook. It kind of originated from that so we did it.

"Hill would give it out right before the game, I like doing it right after the game."

The LSU team waits for Johnson in the immediate postgame team huddle in right field. And after the initial primal roar of celebration, the LSU coach then holds up the lineup card, citing the preamble of the magic moment in the game before handing the card off to that night's worthy recipient.

"Every game has a special moment, where the game kind of turned and he gives the scorecard to a player," LSU shortstop Michael Braswell said.

"It means a lot. In the moment, we know the game changed in this point. But having the physical representation of it and have it be a memory for you that you can keep for your kids one day or family, it means a lot."

Players do different things with the magic moment lineup card. Braswell, who hit the go-ahead two-run single in the top of the ninth against his former team South Carolina during the SEC Baseball Tournament last week that lifted the Tigers to victory, earned the magic moment from that game. That lineup card is at his house.

"It's a good memory especially against that team at that time in that tournament, it was a good moment for me," he said.

Others such as star player Tommy White, who's received a few lineup cards from Johnson in his two seasons with LSU, has decided to turn a good memory for him into a good memory for a young fan that attends the game.

"The moment of the game that kind of turns to help us win. I did last year, I kept them," White said of what he does with the lineup cards. "This year, I give them to kids, I feel like that's pretty cool. (I sign them) if they ask. I got the magic moment, buddy, here you go, here's the lineup card."

LSU (40-21) hopes to create more magic moments in the Chapel Hill Regional this weekend at No. 4 overall national seed North Carolina, as it aims to make another run to the College World Series.

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And Johnson hopes for more games where it's not an easy choice on who he picks for the magic moment, which the Tigers have had several of those during the run it's been on to play their way to a No. 2 seed in a region in the NCAA Tournament.

"In baseball, those happens all the time. In the SEC in nine-inning games, there's more than one (magic moment) that comes along that you have to win to win the game," Johnson said. "Those are fun though.

"When it's tough to choose, those are the best games."

Cory Diaz covers the LSU Tigers for The Daily Advertiser as part of the USA TODAY Network. Follow his Tigers coverage on Twitter: @ByCoryDiaz. Got questions regarding LSU athletics? Send them to Cory Diaz at bdiaz@gannett.com.

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