An injury to one of LSU baseball’s highly touted transfers might end up cutting into the playing time of another.

Third baseman Tommy White should be fine, although he won’t play today when the No. 1-ranked Tigers (3-0) host Southern University (3-0) in a rare afternoon midweek game.

White, who set an NCAA freshman record with 27 home runs as an All-American at North Carolina State last season, jammed his shoulder diving back into first base shortly after his first hit as a Tiger in Friday’s season opener against Western Michigan.

Trainers had to pop the shoulder back into place after he was pulled from the game, but head coach Jay Johnson said it probably looked worse than the reality.

White, he said, at worst might miss this weekend’s action when the Tigers travel to Round Rock, Texas, for games against Kansas State (3-0), Iowa (3-0) and Sam Houston State (2-1).

White’s setback was about the only downer of a weekend sweep in which the Tigers, who stayed atop all five of the major national polls, beat Western Michigan 10-0, 5-3 and 9-2.

But the injury also may have been an eye-opener for Johnson, who in that same opener saw Air Force transfer Paul Skenes (1-0, 0.00 ERA) make his LSU debut with a dominant mound performance that earned him Southeastern Conference Pitcher of the Week honors.

Skenes’ first pitch was 99 mph and his last clocked in at 98 mph as struck out 12 in six innings while allowing three hits and one walk in the 10-0 victory.

But Skenes was a two-way player at Air Force — he hit .367 there — and Johnson said all preseason that he expected Skenes would swing a bat for LSU when not pitching.

Now he’s not so sure — at least how much.

“It’s not put to bed at all,’ Johnson said. “He’ll come up and hit a home run or something at some point this season. It just think right now, the risk versus reward is not worth it.”

It couldn’t have hurt Johnson’s decision much that the opening weekend suggested LSU has plenty of available bats without constantly putting its best arm in harm’s way.

“I thought the entire weekend was great,” Johnson said. “It was a really good model for what we want to establish going forward. We had really good starting pitching, really good defense and we were excellent in situational hitting.”

The Tigers, who were the SEC’s worst defense last year, played an error-free weekend behind overall excellent pitching.

The Tigers used 10 on the mound who combined to limit Western Michigan to five runs (1.67 ERA) and a .105 batting average.

“I’ll take that any day,” Johnson said.

Neither Skenes nor Saturday starter Riley Cooper (1-0, 0.00) allowed a run and reliever Ty Floyd (1-0, 0.00), who’s in the mix to be the closer, faced the minimum in three innings of work on Sunday.

Freshman Chase Shores (0-0, 2.70) started Sunday’s game and allowed one run on two hits in 3 1/3 innings of work.

“I thought Chase was great,” Johnson said. “He’s got composure and that’s why he’s going to be a great pitcher here for a long time.

“I really liked the amount guys that contributed to winning.”

Right-hander Thatcher Hurd, a 6-foot-4 sophomore who was 2-0 with a 1.06 ERA last year at UCLA, will pitch today’s game against Southern. The Jaguars won the HBCU Classic at Minute Maid Park in Houston by beating fellow Southwestern Athletic Conference members Jackson State (5-4), Grambling State (4-3) and Texas Southern (11-1, seven innings).