Father of LSU slugger Cade Beloso smokes gator ahead of World Series game versus Florida

What does a father whose son is playing for LSU in the Men's College Baseball World Series do before traveling to Nebraska to watch the Tigers take on Florida?

Bring a Louisiana gator to smoke, of course.

According to The Advocate photojournalist Hilary Scheinuk, Rodney Beloso, father of LSU designated hitter Cade Beloso, tailgated ahead of Sunday's Game 2 in Omaha, Nebraska with a 25-pound gator on the grill. Scheinuk shared a short video on her Twitter account that showed Rodney Beloso opening the grill to show off the neatly-placed reptile, which is not so coincidentally the mascot of the team his son is facing.

As the elder Beloso opens the grill, someone off-camera is heard saying: "Oh yeah!"

Cade Beloso is a graduate student and one of the key sluggers that has propelled the No. 5 seed Tigers to the World Series.

Despite Rodney Beloso's smoking of an actual gator, No. 2 Florida was the one in charge Sunday, building a 12-run lead over LSU through six innings.

LSU won Game 1 Saturday in extra innings when Beloso smashed a solo home run in the top of the 11th to give the Tigers a 4-3 lead, the score by which they would win the game. On Sunday, Beloso drew three walks, but that wasn't enough to help LSU, however, as the Tigers were defeated 24-4 on a record-setting day for Florida.

“The previous at-bat, he struck me out on three straight heaters and I figured he would go back to it,” Beloso said of Florida relief pitcher Brandon Neely. “They weren’t going to switch anything up. I got one I was supposed to swing at and put a good swing on it.”

Game 3 of the Men's College Baseball World Series is scheduled for a winner-take-all Monday night.